- Aider [0] wrote a piece about this [1] way back in Oct 2023!
I stumbled upon it in late 2023 when investigating ways to give OpenHands [2] better context dynamically.
[0] https://aider.chat/
[1] https://aider.chat/2023/10/22/repomap.html
[2] https://openhands.dev/
- Great idea! I’ve been thinking about something along these lines as well.
I recommend configuring it as a tool for Opencode.
Going from Claude Code to Opencode was like going from Windows to Mac.
- i thought the reason claude code defaults to terminal-ish workflows (glob/grep) is bc they trained with bash-y sandboxes, and the creator argued for this approach vs indexing + bespoke tools. would be interesting to see how often the model defaults to using grep for everything (in my experience almost always..)
- I wonder how this sort of thing compares with asking claude to read a ctags file. I have git hooks set up to keep my tags up to date automatically, so that data is already lying around.
by handfuloflight
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- Excellent share, thank you. My question is with your setup, how strictly does Claude Code adhere to using this mode to traverse the codebase over grep? I have found this is to be a huge issue when implementing similar solutions... it loves to just grep.
- Can you make the plugin start automatically, on some suitable trigger? Any plans to support JVM languages?
edit: Does Claude not invoke it automatically, then, so you have to call the skill?
- Would this be useful to people who aren't using Claude? Maybe it should be installable in a more normal way, instead of as a Claude plugin.
by lingxiao10
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- This is the dumbest project I have ever seen. Why does it have so many upvotes and comments? Because there are a bunch of idiots here who need to add meaningless stuff to their empty and pointless papers. Only so-called pure academics would try to build such an index for code. File directories, search, and the built-in code parsing capability of compilers basically allow AI to locate any problem within 5 to 30 seconds. Even in the worst-case scenario, the problem is definitely not the lack of a so-called code index. To everyone participating in this discussion: how much have you actually used Claude Code? I have built several large projects with it without writing a single line of code myself, and I have never thought that code location or indexing was a problem at all.
- I see a lot of overlap with LSPs, which better agents already use, so I would appreciate a comparison. What does this add?
by aghilmort
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- been wondering about treesitter grepping for agents
how do plans compare with and without etc. evven just anecdotally what you've seen so far etc
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