name: code-search role: library description: 'Search GitHub for existing implementations. Use when looking for code examples, libraries, or implementation patterns on a topic.' version: 1.9.3 alwaysApply: false category: research tags:

• github
• code
• search estimated_tokens: 200 model_hint: standard

Code Search

When To Use

• Finding existing implementations or libraries on GitHub
• Part of a /tome:research session or standalone search

When NOT To Use

• Searching local codebase (use Grep or Explore agent)
• Academic literature (use /tome:papers)

Search GitHub for implementations of a given topic.

Usage

Invoked as part of /tome:research or standalone.

Workflow

1. Build search queries using tome.channels.github.build_github_search_queries()
2. Execute queries via WebSearch
3. Parse results via parse_github_result()
4. Optionally use GitHub API via build_github_api_search() for richer metadata
5. Rank via rank_github_findings()
6. Return Finding objects