nimbus search

Semantic search over your indexed codebase. Natural language queries — not grep.

Usage

nimbus search "where is rate limiting handled"
nimbus search "payment webhook processing"
nimbus search "how does auth token validation work"

Or from inside the REPL:

nimbus › search "JWT token validation"

Output

  nimbus search  "where is rate limiting handled"

  3 results

  ├─ src/middleware/rate-limit.ts   score 0.94
  │  RateLimiter class — Redis-backed sliding window
  │
  ├─ src/routes/api/upload.ts       score 0.81
  │  Rate limit middleware applied to /api/upload
  │
  └─ config/redis.ts                score 0.72
     Redis connection config used by rate limiter

Flags

Flag	Description
--top-k N	Number of results to return (default: 8)
--open	Open the top result in $EDITOR

How it works

Queries are embedded using voyage-code-2 and searched against your ChromaDB index using Reciprocal Rank Fusion of vector similarity + BM25 keyword scores. Results are ranked by combined score with file path, score, and a first-line preview.