microsoft/tgrep

tgrep: Microsoft's trigram-indexed Rust search, up to 52x faster than ripgrep on large repos. Agents read more than they write — this shortens the read step of every loop iteration.

Who pays: platform eng cuts monorepo grep waits in CI and agent loops; coding-agent products ship a local search sidecar instead of cloud code-search seats; consultancies productize instant repo grep…

Microsoft/tgrep: grep with trigram indexing in Rust

this Microsoft tool can make AI agents search code 50x faster. tgrep is an open source, rust-based search engine built to replace grep and ripgrep in large codebases, indexing once so every search…

The architectural difference is simple: ripgrep: search → scan files → results tgrep: index once → narrow to candidate files → search The server stays running and watches for file changes, so the…