fd File Finding

Expert knowledge for using fd as a fast, user-friendly alternative to find with smart defaults and powerful filtering.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when...	Use rg-code-search instead when...
Finding files by name, extension, or path pattern	Searching inside file contents for text or regex
Filtering by mtime (`--changed-within`) or size (`--size`)	Filtering matches by file type (`-t py`, `-t js`)
Locating files to feed into `-x` / `-X` execution	Auditing source code for patterns across many files

Use this skill when...	Use jq-json-processing instead when...
Discovering JSON, YAML, or other files on disk	Querying or transforming the contents of those files
Building a file list for downstream batch processing	Extracting fields, filtering arrays, or reshaping JSON