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title: "file-search"
description: "Fast codebase search with ripgrep for text patterns, ast-grep for structural code search, plus fd, rga, tokei, and scc"
canonical: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/file-search
last-updated: 2026-09-22
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# file-search
Fast codebase search with ripgrep for text patterns, ast-grep for structural code search, plus fd, rga, tokei, and scc
- Slug: file-search
- Publisher: Netresearch DTT GmbH
- Repository: https://github.com/netresearch/file-search-skill
- Manifest: plugin.json
- Version: 1.8.1
- License: (MIT AND CC-BY-SA-4.0)
- Category (editorial): code-review
- Skills: 1 (file-search)
- MCP servers: 0
- Stars: 38
- Repository created: 2026-02-25
- Repository last pushed: 2026-09-20
- Publisher type: Organization
- Listing: https://agentpluginsdirectory.com/plugins/file-search
- Schema: https://agent-plugins.org/schemas/1.0.0/plugin.schema.json

## What file-search does, in the publisher's words

An AI agent skill that teaches efficient CLI-based code and file search strategies. Provides tool selection guidance, pattern recipes, and best practices for searching codebases of any size.

- Use rg instead of grep for text search in source code
- Use fd instead of find for file discovery
- Use rga instead of rg when searching non-code files (PDFs, Office docs, archives)
- Use sg instead of regex when matching code structure
- Use semgrep when you want a catalog of security/lint rules (taint, registry): not just a single pattern
- Use tokei or scc to assess codebase size, not cloc or wc -l

From the project README, punctuation lightly normalized. Full text: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/netresearch/file-search-skill/HEAD/README.md

## Skills

- file-search: Use when searching codebases (text, structural/AST, files by name, PDFs/archives, code stats) or building context before a task.

Descriptions come from the frontmatter of each SKILL.md, punctuation lightly normalized.