Understand Codebase

Use when navigating code, tracing how functions/classes connect, finding where symbols are defined or called, or answering "how does this work" questions about a codebase.

Tool Selection

Choose ripgrep (rg) for:

• Text-based searches (strings, comments, variable names)
• Fast, simple pattern matching across many files
• When exact code structure doesn't matter
• Regex searches with context lines
• Searching binary files or non-code text