cheez-search

Backend contract: use a semantic code-search backend, not blind text search. Choose the narrowest tool that answers the question.

Backend detection

Pick the backend by question type:

1. LSP wins for type-grounded questions: definitions through imports, references with shadowing/re-exports, hover/type info, implementations, rename planning, and server-known code actions.
2. AST search / sg wins for syntax shapes: structural patterns with metavariables and repeated syntax-shaped codemods.
3. tilth MCP wins for broad source search: symbols, callers, imports, content, bounded regex, and dependency/blast-radius context in one fresh repo scan.

Note: every tilth tool takes cwd — your absolute checkout directory (the server's own cwd is frozen at startup). In Claude Code a hook injects cwd automatically; do not set it. On harnesses without the hook, pass cwd explicitly so relative paths and scopes resolve. There is no root parameter.

Examples

"Where is handleAuth defined?"