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Semantic Search & Call Graphs for AI Agents (100% Local)
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# grepai
### grep for the AI era
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**Search code by meaning, not just text.**
[Documentation](https://yoanbernabeu.github.io/grepai/) · [Installation](#installation) · [Quick Start](#quick-start)
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`grepai` is a privacy-first CLI for semantic code search. It uses vector embeddings to understand code meaning, enabling natural language queries that find relevant code—even when naming conventions vary.
**Drastically reduces AI agent input tokens** by providing relevant context instead of raw search results.
## Features
- **Search by intent** — Ask "authentication logic" and find `handleUserSession`
- **Trace call graphs** — Know who calls a function before you change it
- **100% local** — Your code never leaves your machine
- **Always up-to-date** — File watcher keeps the index fresh automatically
- **AI agent ready** — Works with Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf out of the box
- **MCP server** — Your AI agent can call grepai directly as a tool
## Installation
**Homebrew (macOS):**
```bash
brew install yoanbernabeu/tap/grepai
```
**Linux/macOS:**
```bash
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai/main/install.sh | sh
```
**Windows (PowerShell):**
```powershell
irm https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai/main/install.ps1 | iex
```
Requires an embedding provider — [Ollama](https://ollama.ai) (default), [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai), or OpenAI.
**Ollama (recommended):**
```bash
ollama pull nomic-embed-text
```
## Quick Start
```bash
grepai init # Initialize in your project
grepai watch # Start indexing daemon
grepai search "error handling" # Search semantically
grepai trace callers "Login" # Find who calls a function
```
## Shell Completion
grepai supports autocompletion for commands, flags, and dynamic values (workspace names, project names, providers, backends).
**Zsh (add to `~/.zshrc`):**
```bash
eval "$(grepai completion zsh)"
```
**Oh-My-Zsh plugin:**
```bash
mkdir -p ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/grepai
grepai completion zsh > ${ZSH_CUSTOM:-~/.oh-my-zsh/custom}/plugins/grepai/_grepai
# Then add "grepai" to plugins=(...) in ~/.zshrc
```
**Bash:**
```bash
# Linux
grepai completion bash > /etc/bash_completion.d/grepai
# macOS (requires bash-completion@2)
grepai completion bash > $(brew --prefix)/etc/bash_completion.d/grepai
```
**Fish:**
```bash
grepai completion fish > ~/.config/fish/completions/grepai.fish
```
**PowerShell:**
```powershell
grepai completion powershell | Out-String | Invoke-Expression
```
## What developers say
> *"I just hit my limit and it took 13% of my max5 plan just to read my codebase. I am very, very excited about your new tool."*
> — u/911pleasehold on [r/ClaudeAI](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1qiv0d3/open_source_i_reduced_claude_code_input_tokens_by/) (280K+ views)
> *"It works great! Takes 5 minutes to install. Crazy!"*
> — [@LesSaleGeek](https://x.com/LesSaleGeek/status/2010335803604611124) on X
> *"The results are incredible!"*
> — [Kenny Nguyen](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:741945188Excerpt of 4,839 characters
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