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Search Commands

Search Commands

Search across problems, solutions, critiques, milestones, and events. Supports both text search and entity reference-based similarity search.

Terminal window
jjj search <query> [options]

The search query can be free text or an entity reference (e.g., p/01957d) for similarity search.

Options:

OptionTypeDescription
<query>stringSearch query or entity reference for similarity search
--type, -tstringFilter by entity type: problem, solution, critique, milestone, event
--text-onlyflagForce text-only search (disable semantic/embedding features)
--jsonflagOutput results as JSON

Examples:

Terminal window
# Search for anything mentioning "authentication"
jjj search "authentication"
# Search only problems
jjj search "login bug" --type problem
# Find entities similar to a specific problem
jjj search p/01957d
# Text-only search with JSON output
jjj search "refactor" --text-only --json