ripwire
ripwire is The ripgrep of AI context: a zero-dependency C++23 CLI + MCP server for coding agents. Find what you want without reading the repo, then check you built what you meant — blast radius, tests-to-run,.... It is ranked #894 on the Dev Radar, in AI dev tools, first seen 13 days ago and shared in 1 post (224.5k views).
GitHub - redhat-et/ripwire: The ripgrep of AI context: a zero-dependency C++23 CLI + MCP server for coding agents. Find what you want without reading the repo, then check you built what you meant — blast radius, tests-to-run, quality deltas. Signatures at 74.7% fewer bytes than bodies; every guess labelled, every loss published. Paddle out with a map. · GitHub Skip to content Navigation Menu Sign in Appearance settings Search / Sign in Sign up Appearance settings You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session. You switched accounts on another…
What people said about ripwire on X
ripwire, from Red Hat Emerging Technologies, is a remarkably substantial new approach to giving coding agents repository context without embeddings, a vector database, an LLM indexer or a daemon. The zero-dependency C++23 binary parses 21 languages with Tree-sitter and builds a deterministic structural map of a…
— @agenticgirl, 13 days ago · 1.8k likes · see the post
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ripwire in numbers
- Rank on the Dev Radar: #894 of 1353
- Shared in 1 post by 1 account: @agenticgirl
- 224.5k views on those posts
- First seen 13 days ago, last shared 13 days ago
- Pricing seen by Jev: open source
- Market: AI dev tools
FAQ
What is ripwire?
The ripgrep of AI context: a zero-dependency C++23 CLI + MCP server for coding agents. Find what you want without reading the repo, then check you built what you meant — blast radius, tests-to-run,... It was first shared on X 13 days ago and is ranked #894 on the Dev Radar.
Is ripwire free?
It is open source.
Who shared ripwire?
1 account on X, including @agenticgirl, in 1 post totalling 224.5k views.
Every post is read and classified by Jev (TypeSafe): what it is, which market it belongs to, and whether the link is a real tool. 12.2k posts from 4.7k X accounts over the last 21 days, 1.4k tools, 12 markets. Collected every 5 minutes, fully re-ranked every hour — last update 2026-09-19 18:06 UTC. Full method.