Hybrid Semantic Grep for Claude Code
Details
- External ID
- 46992611
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Hybrid Semantic Grep for Claude Code
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Feb. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.10512129380053908
- Tags
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Releasing ColGREP today, made using our open-source multi-vector database, it support grep like filtering while adding an extra input to rank output of grep based on semantic similarity. ColGREP is packed with strong code retrieval models we designed and run 100% locally.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Claude integrations and coding agents
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- semantic search for code
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Creating a CLI tool wrapper is simple, but designing, fine-tuning, and running local multi-vector code retrieval models (such as ColBERT for code) with fast local indexing requires non-trivial ML search expertise.
What it would actually take: The system combines ripgrep-style regex matching with a multi-vector Late Interaction retrieval model (like ColBERT) quantized for fast local CPU/GPU inference (ONNX or candle/ggml). The difficult part is building low-latency multi-vector indexing and scoring (token-level MaxSim) combined with inverted indices over code abstract syntax trees (ASTs), demanding specialized knowledge in information retrieval and model optimization.
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Competitors
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Launched 84 days after the earliest competitor.
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- jgrep · github · 2026-09-18 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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