sweet-search

What is sweet-search

sweet-search gives coding agents local semantic search over a codebase, saving 5–33% per run. It is free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license and published on npm.

How to use

1. Install with npm (Node.js 22+):

2. npm install -g sweet-search

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3. In your repository, runsweet-search initto wire up Claude Code (add--codexor--opencodefor those agents).
4. Build the index withsweet-search index(GPU-accelerated where available).
5. Search in natural language, e.g.sweet-search "where do we validate JWT tokens?"
6. Let your agent use the six tools (search, grep, find, semantic, trace, read); the index updates itself as you edit.
7. Uninstall withsweet-search uninstall(this repo) orsweet-search uninstall --all.

Use cases

• Cutting the cost and time of Claude Code, Codex or opencode runs
• Hybrid semantic + keyword code search across a repository
• Tracing callers, callees and impact from a code graph
• Fast grep for agents with fewer wasted tokens
• Fully local code search with no API keys, cloud or Docker

Price from official sources

Free

• Free and open source under the Apache-2.0 license;
• runs 100% locally.

Check the official site for current pricing · Price not yet checked by our editors

Source: github.com · Info as of Nov 2, 2026

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