Filesystem Search

Filesystem Search is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by aden-hive in hive.

10.9K stars5.7K forkson aden-hive/hiveAdded 2026/08/15Repository updated 2026/08/13

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Install Filesystem Search

Copy Filesystem Search into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/aden-hive/hive/tree/main/core/framework/skills/_preset_skills/terminal-tools-fs-search ~/.claude/skills/terminal-tools-fs-search

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/aden-hive/hive.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: core/framework/skills/_preset_skills/terminal-tools-fs-search/SKILL.md in aden-hive/hive
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/terminal-tools-fs-search
Collection: One of 24 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Filesystem Search does

Filesystem Search teaches agents when to use terminal_rg, terminal_glob, and terminal_exec for filesystem search: content grep with ripgrep, filename globs, and predicate queries for mtime/size/type.

Filesystem Search is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Filesystem Search comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-framework, agent-skills, anthropic and automation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Filesystem search

terminal-tools provides two structured search tools: terminal_rg (ripgrep for content) and terminal_glob (find files by name/glob). Predicate queries (mtime/size/type) and everything else (tree, stat, du) are just terminal_exec.

When to use what

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Filesystem Search provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

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Frequently asked about Filesystem Search

What else does aden-hive publish alongside Filesystem Search?
Filesystem Search is one of 24 skills that DirSkills catalogs from aden-hive/hive, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Background Job Control, Browser Edge Cases and Chart Creation Foundations. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Filesystem Search does, and is maintained by aden-hive in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the aden-hive/hive page.
How does Filesystem Search compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Filesystem Search ranks #374 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Filesystem Search against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.