Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
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Re: Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
#2Surely 'strings' would be even better?
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#3Feels important, but I wish they also had compared against something like MeiliSearch or Algolia.
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#4I recently watched the new Palantir + Kirkland & Ellis fund formation platform demo, and I was surprised to see how effective the union of structured data was in an agent harness. We're used to dealing with flat files and comparing here basic ways of searching, essentially, long strings, but using Palantir's "Ontology" graph framework, I think Kirkland is going to be able to achieve some exception and differentiating outcomes in legal tech. The whole idea assumes that they've got great structured data already, and perhaps that's the real valuable unknown, but giving an agent those tools is super powerful.
I wrote about it[1] and came away with a different view on both Palantir and the future of agentic workflows personally.
[1] sorry, LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/fund-managements-killer-app-d...
Re: Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
#5Tangential, 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?
Re: Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
#6Tangential, 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?
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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#7Feels important, but I wish they also had compared against something like MeiliSearch or Algolia.
100%, there's even Typesense, open source Algolia, which can do hybrid search and a number of other fancy things
I'm currently working on a markdown kb / search tool for my agents, in part built on TS
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Re: Is grep all you need? How agent harnesses reshape agentic search
#9Tangential, 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?
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
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
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