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What it does

A Jev-powered tool for searching codebases by meaning.

How you can use it

You can use this approach to help locate specific files across a messy project just by asking natural questions, such as asking where customer billing files live. Instead of scanning through the contents of every single file, the tool sends names of folders and files to an outside service to guess which paths look most promising.

A programmer can help set this up on your computer using an access key provided by TypeSafe to connect to the scoring service. A key limitation is that it only judges paths by their names rather than reading what is written inside files, and it cannot inspect empty folders.