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Paste any public GitHub repo. grepless splits it into functions and classes, embeds every one, and finds the code you describe even when you don't know what it's called.

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gte-small · 384-dk = 7 nearest

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1import { sleep } from "./time"

3export class Client {

4 async retry(fn, tries = 3) {

5 for (let i = 0; i < tries; i++) {

6 try { return await fn() }

7 catch { await sleep(2 ** i * 100) }

8 }

9 }

10 refresh(token) {

11 return this.auth.renew(token)

12 }

13}

imports

method Client.retry

method Client.refresh

Chunks follow the syntax tree

tree-sitter parses 13 languages. Each function, method and class becomes one searchable chunk that keeps its qualified name.

semantic

1. retryDelay2. backoff3. shouldRetry

keyword

1. shouldRetry2. retryAfter3. retryDelay

fused · 1/(60+rank)

1. retryDelay0.03252. shouldRetry0.03143. backoff0.0303

Hybrid ranking

Vector top-40 and full-text top-40, fused with Reciprocal Rank Fusion.

Matchedonmeaningandkeywords:shares“retry”and“delay”—seelines151–153.

Says why it matched

Meaning, keywords or both, which words you share, and the lines to read.

gte-small

384

dims · int8

0 API keys

Model runs in-house

gte-small runs inside the serverless function, so there's no embedding API and no key.

src/auth.tsc03e…

src/retry.tsa91f…

src/http/client.tsc03e…

src/parse.tsa91f…

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gte-small · 384-d
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