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After you install the search Skill, ask your coding agent to find past work or locate text in indexed source files in your own words. Describe what you are looking for, and the Skill chooses the appropriate search, reviews the results, and summarizes the most relevant matches.

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Before You Start

Install the Skill in the environment where your agent runs, and log in to Entire there:
Install version 0.7.2 or later of the Entire Skills collection. From that version the Skill widens a search past the current repository on its own, so your agent can find work in a repository it has never cloned.
The CLI can install a smaller helper that runs entire search --json instead. Pass --search-skill to entire agent add, which scaffolds it for one selected agent. That helper handles a hit from another repository, and it does not escalate to --all-repos on its own the way the Skill does. See Install CLI Managed Helpers for the agents it supports.

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See Search in Action

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What You Can Ask

Run your agent from the repository you want to search. The examples below assume your agent is running from a local clone of the Entire CLI repository. Unlike a query you type into Search directly, requests to your agent can be phrased as instructions, and the Skill translates them into effective search queries for you.
In clients that expose installed Skills as slash commands, you can also invoke the Skill directly with /search, followed by what you want to find.

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What Happens After You Ask

The Skill summarizes the most relevant matches. For past work it answers from each hit’s title, snippet, and files touched, and it opens a checkpoint transcript when the top hits are ambiguous or you ask for detail. For source code it returns file paths and matching snippets. Ask a follow-up question to explore a particular result. A session records what someone decided at the time, not what the code does now. Have your agent confirm that the code it cites still matches the session it found.

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When Search Is Not Needed

When you already know the file and the change is in front of you, let your agent read the working tree directly. Search covers work that is already pushed and indexed.

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Continue With

Search in the CLI

Run semantic search or Code Search yourself.

Make Your Agent Use Entire

Install Skills and learn the main agent workflows.

Search Troubleshooting

Fix login, scope, and agent adoption problems.