Jegrep

Ripgrep matches strings and an embedding index needs building and refreshing. This sends a description to Jev and walks the live tree, giving every path an absolute yes/no probability so thresholds mean something and results stay comparable across batches.

OpenRouter is preferred when its key exists, otherwise TypeSafe, and the banner, footer and JSON stats name the provider that actually served the run. Failover can still bill the second account after an auth, rate-limit, timeout, 5xx or transport failure, so use --only when you need a hard guarantee.

Two defaults narrow what gets sent. Dotfiles and dot-folders are excluded unless you pass --hidden, and files whose content looks like credential material are withheld unless you pass --allow-secrets. Threshold rounds, the per-request batch cap and the exploration strategy also decide how far the walk goes.

The README quotes Jev at $0.042 per million input tokens with output free, and puts a search across a few thousand files at roughly $0.005, with sample runs in the docs landing near $0.0015. Your real cost depends on how many files and bytes the chosen strategy reads.

Every hit row opens with the root-relative dirname/filename, and every localized passage under it opens with dirname/filename:first-last using original line numbers, so a selection pastes straight into an editor. A hit shows its top three ranges by relevance, strongest last, and hits are ordered weakest first, so the best result sits next to your prompt. The trailer reports listed, judged, expanded dirs, files read with bytes, requests, tokens, cost, and wall against API time. --json emits the full result and --compact a token-lean digest.

With Rust and Cargo installed, cargo install jegrep. Releases carry Linux and macOS binaries for x86-64 and ARM64 and Windows x86-64 binaries, with SHA256SUMS, and the Linux ones need glibc 2.39 or newer. Or clone and cargo build --release. There is no config file: everything is CLI flags plus environment variables, so OPENROUTER_API_KEY and TYPESAFE_API_KEY come from the process environment or ~/.env.

Twelve ship in the box. cascade is the default, a sketch-routed global budget of verified full-source passages; window scores ranked lexical candidates as bounded passages; hybrid-window is beam discovery followed by window refinement; sniff reads 1 KB heads of 32 files per request and gives survivors the 32 KB check; baseline, beam, budget, deep and the paged-grep, inline and window families cover the rest. Each drives the same Tree, Pool, question builders and client, so a new one is a Strategy in src/strategies/ registered in strategies/mod.rs.