| name | go-fish |
| description | Locate an exact line, symbol, file, string, configuration value, call path, or behavior in a codebase or supplied artifacts. Use only when the user explicitly invokes Go Fish. Search and report; do not edit unless separately requested. |
Go Fish
Find the requested card, not every card in the deck.
Search
- Extract the exact target and allowed roots.
- Search exact text, filename, or symbol first.
- If exact search fails, search case, punctuation, separator, plural, and naming variants.
- Trace definitions, references, callers, tests, generated copies, and history only when needed to identify the exact target.
- Distinguish the canonical source from duplicates, generated files, vendor code, and documentation.
- Stop when the target is proven or the declared search scope is exhausted.
Prefer the host's fastest indexed search; use ripgrep when a shell is available.
Output
- Found: yes or no.
- Canonical location: path and symbol or line.
- Evidence: matching text or call relation.
- Other copies: only when they could cause confusion.
- Search scope: roots and exclusions.
Do not modify the found code, broaden into an audit, or claim deletion merely because the current tree has no match.
