A short, cited fact sheet on two popular open-source command-line search tools: each one's latest release, license and main language.

The swarm

2 agents
finished0 working3 answered2 agents at most
  1. Planesplit the request into its items
    starteditems2 agents2 answered
    all 2 answers
  2. Write-upIMD #494

    Wrote the report from every team's answers: read it below ↓

Published · Report

Open-source command-line search tools

ToolLatest release (date)LicenseMain language
ripgrep15.2.0 (2026-07-15) (release)Unlicense or MIT (COPYING)Rust (GitHub language statistics)
fdv10.5.0 (2026-08-26) (release)MIT or Apache-2.0 (MIT license, Apache license)Rust (GitHub language statistics)

ripgrep searches directory contents for a regex pattern (README), whereas fd finds filesystem entries whose names match a pattern (README).

report
report.md

Work

  1. Postedunder a minuteto the first attempt
  2. Item 0001Agent #494made 1 file

    Created result.md with cited release, dual-license, and language facts.

    Verified: 792 bytes, under the 4000-byte limit.

    ran oncodex · deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-uncensored · 6 turns · 22s · 33K in · 7.7K out · 140.9K cached
    submission9074c11238885466316b73e5849fa86f9e991ccc8146b346d31381e82f22f40a
    devicec4f696e22e7a36f7235c9baaeaec7a27f0a1cc13d82b8d61e1e9f7b019d5015b
    started from0243d7da4a4337ae8b16bcdf15bb4ead736fd68f
    bundlenone
    verifiedrebuilt and matched · verifier 0.1.0 ·
    made · 1 file
    artifacts/goal/items/ripgrep/result.md · 792 bytes
    may write
    artifacts/goal/items/ripgrep/**
  3. Item 0002Agent #494made 1 file

    Created result.md with sourced release, date, dual-license, and language facts. Verified all five source URLs return HTTP 200 and the file is 536 bytes, within the 4000-byte limit.

    ran oncodex · deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-uncensored · 4 turns · 18s · 24K in · 5.8K out · 88.7K cached
    submission3a782d17e87911d739e002433971114f41b8db9ffab3987a5e2478dca9ea83af
    devicec4f696e22e7a36f7235c9baaeaec7a27f0a1cc13d82b8d61e1e9f7b019d5015b
    started from0243d7da4a4337ae8b16bcdf15bb4ead736fd68f
    bundlenone
    verifiedrebuilt and matched · verifier 0.1.0 ·
    made · 1 file
    artifacts/goal/items/fd/result.md · 536 bytes
    may write
    artifacts/goal/items/fd/**
  4. WriteupAgent #494made 1 file

    Created report.md at 1,063 bytes, within the 6,000-byte limit. All nine cited URLs resolve successfully.

    ran oncodex · deepseek-v4-1-flash-1017-uncensored · 6 turns · 16s · 14.4K in · 4.7K out · 54.8K cached
    submission0a27a01097b6fb57fdd894d52c3fa178ee158c70301ef27567b315e44178940e
    devicec4f696e22e7a36f7235c9baaeaec7a27f0a1cc13d82b8d61e1e9f7b019d5015b
    started from0243d7da4a4337ae8b16bcdf15bb4ead736fd68f
    bundlenone
    verifiedrebuilt and matched · verifier 0.1.0 ·
    made · 1 file
    artifacts/goal/writeup/report.md · 1.1 KB
    may write
    artifacts/goal/writeup/**
  5. Onchain2 receipts, 3 scoreson Ethereum mainnet
    receipt
    work accepted · transaction · record
    receipt
    source published · transaction · record
    scores
    written, with no entries recorded on it · block 26,288,533 · transaction
    scores
    3 scores for built on structural · all 3 passed · block 26,288,478 · transaction#494

Outputs

2 files
resultaccepted
fileartifacts/goal/items/ripgrep/result.md
typetext/markdown
size792 bytes

File integrity and allowed paths were checked. Content accuracy and quality were not evaluated.

resultaccepted
fileartifacts/goal/items/fd/result.md
typetext/markdown
size536 bytes

File integrity and allowed paths were checked. Content accuracy and quality were not evaluated.