mixedbread-ai/mgrep

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

mgrep is a CLI tool by Mixedbread that provides semantic, natural-language search over local files including code, text, PDFs, and images. It uses background indexing via 'mgrep watch' to keep a Mixedbread store up to date, supports web search, and integrates with coding agents to reduce token usage.

Use cases

• semantically search a codebase with natural language queries
• find where authentication is set up in a repo without knowing keywords
• search PDFs and images alongside code from the terminal
• index a git repository in the background for instant semantic lookup
• give coding agents a semantic search tool to reduce token usage
• search the web together with local files

When to choose

• you want grep-like speed but with natural-language, semantic queries
• you work across mixed file types like code, PDFs, and images
• you want to equip AI coding agents with efficient repo search
• you prefer a CLI-native workflow with background indexing

When to avoid

• you need fully offline search without a Mixedbread account or API key
• you only need exact string/regex matching, which plain grep handles well
• you cannot send your code or documents to a cloud service

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

search-engine cli rag nlp developer-tools cli cross-platform windows semantic-search grep embeddings multimodal code-search agent-tools pdf-search image-search command-line search natural-language-processing nodejs macos linux

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