The relace-search model uses 4-12 view_file and grep tools in parallel to explore a codebase and return relevant files to the user request.
In contrast to RAG, relace-search performs agentic multi-step reasoning to produce highly precise results 4x faster than any frontier model. It's designed to serve as a subagent that passes its findings to an "oracle" coding agent, who orchestrates/performs the rest of the coding task.
To use relace-search you need to build an appropriate agent harness, and parse the response for relevant information to hand off to the oracle. Read more about it in the Relace documentation.
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Providers for Relace Search
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