Tangential, I have a hook that rewriters grep to rg but lately I wonder if this is actually wasteful as the model is so biased to grep, is there a way to shim/alias perhaps?

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sdesol 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

My CLI does something close to this:

https://github.com/gitsense/gsc-cli

`gsc grep` is just an alias for `gsc rg`, mostly because agents are much more likely to reach for “grep” than “rg”.

It works pretty well, but it is not a perfect drop-in replacement. `grep` and `ripgrep` differ in a few details, especially around glob/wildcard behaviour and flags. What I found works is to not use `grep` in search examples, and have the CLI spit out an error message for the AI saying this is `ripgrep`, so it needs to use `ripgrep` syntax.

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celrod 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If performance is the concern, ugrep will get you most of the way there relative to gnu grep, and should be fully grep compatible in terms of syntax:

https://github.com/Genivia/ugrep#aliases

Claude Code may ship with ugrep already.

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verdverm 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Many harnesses are doing this already, "Grep" is the tool name, ripgrep is the implementation

It depends on if it is using Grep the harness tool or Grep from the bash tool

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hmokiguess 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I see it using the Bash tool infrequently though sometimes Grep. I'm on Claude Code for now due to subscription lock-in, been contemplating moving to pi though

	▲	joelfried 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		My experience here (also Claude user) is that the model uses different tools in different contexts. I see rg more on frontend and grep more on backend work. I imagine it defaults to using the tool it has more learning around within the contexts it's reaching for and since for the most part it's 6 of one or half a dozen of the other you'll see environment specific usages for these tools in claude for now. I imagine eventually it'll standardize but we're early yet on such things. If you'd told me a decade ago I'd finally learn some sed in 26 because I'd want to understand what the AI was doing I'd have told you you were crazy . . .
	▲	Analemma_ 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Why do you have subscription lock-in? Even if you pay for a yearly subscription, Anthropic will refund you pro rata if you cancel early.

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cyanydeez 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I've been on a look out for any harness that properly secures a protocol to the LLM, but they're all just "here's some tools, hopefully you don't use bash for everything".