Give your coding agents the power of turbogrep!
Official Schedule Context
- Date/time: 2026-06-29 · 11:10am-11:30am
- Track/room: track TBD · Expo Stage 1 NE
- Speaker(s): Owen Halpert
- Session type/status: session · confirmed
Official Description
Coding agents can grep the filesystem, but sometimes semantic search is more useful for finding the
right files, especially on large codebases. Claude Code and Codex, unlike Cursor, do not use
semantic search for code retrieval. There are good reasons for this, but Cursor has consistently
demonstrated that semantic retrieval can materially improve code search to improve answer accuracy,
increase code retention, and reduce token usage. In this session, we'll share a coding agent plugin
for semantic codebase search alongside other modalities (BM25, regex/globbing/grep, filtering), and
demonstrate how an agent can choose the right tool for the job. We'll share benchmark-style results
that compare answer quality and token consumption with and without semantic retrieval across a small
set of representative tasks.
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