Files & Search

Modern replacements for grep, find, cat, and ls, plus JSON wrangling, structural code search, turning documents into Markdown, and editing PDFs locally.

ripgrep

Much faster than grep, and it respects .gitignore without being asked.

Find files by name without remembering find's syntax.

bat

A cat replacement with syntax highlighting, line numbers, and Git change markers.

eza

An ls replacement with colour, icons, tree view, and Git status.

Pull values out of API responses and config files, and reshape them.

ast-grep

Search and rewrite code by its syntax tree, so a pattern matches structure instead of characters.

MinerU

Turning PDFs, scans, and Office files into LLM-ready Markdown — layout, tables, and formulas kept, not flattened.

Docling

One converter for PDFs, Office files, HTML, email, and audio — into a single document model you can export, chunk, and index.

MarkItDown

Microsoft's converter that turns PDF, Office, audio, images and a dozen other formats into Markdown an LLM can read — breadth first, …

Stirling PDF

Fifty-plus PDF operations — merge, split, OCR, redact, sign, convert — running on your own machine instead of a stranger's upload form.

PixelRAG

Berkeley's visual RAG: index documents as page screenshots instead of parsed text, so tables and charts survive retrieval — plus a plugin …