Purpose and audience
The jg CLI helps coding agents explore unfamiliar repositories by returning relevant files, line references and source excerpts.
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How Jev fits
Jev judges folders, file previews and declarations as the search follows relevant branches through the repository.
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Using the project
Configure credentials for a supported provider, install the agent skill and ask jg a repository question; Node.js 22+ on macOS or Linux is required.
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Scope and limits
Search sends eligible source content to the chosen provider. Results are retrieval evidence, not a guarantee that every relevant file was found.
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Evidence checked:
Project facts
- Relationship to Jev
- Jev application
- Evidence
- Documented
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Origin
- Original repository
- Repository status
- Not archived
- Created
- 2026-09-26
- Last code update
- 2026-09-28
- GitHub stars
- 1,349
- Evidence checked
- Sep 30, 2026
- Metadata checked
- Sep 28, 2026
- Check status
- Up to date
Stars measure the whole repository, including work unrelated to Jev.
Evidence and scope
Documented records the linked documentation or source. JevHunt has not independently run or benchmarked this project.
Evidence commit: 09346e16c43d3b9bb809839591dc43c3d5c5aa8f
Discovered through: github-search.
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