CLI Overview

All commands support these global flags:

Flag	Description
`--json`	Output in JSON format
`--quiet`	Suppress non-essential output
`--verbose`	Show detailed progress
`--server <URL>`	Use remote bobbin server (thin-client mode)

Commands

Command	Description
`bobbin init`	Initialize bobbin in current repository
`bobbin index`	Build/rebuild the search index
`bobbin search`	Hybrid search (combines semantic + keyword)
`bobbin context`	Assemble task-relevant context from search + git coupling
`bobbin grep`	Keyword/regex search with highlighting
`bobbin deps`	Import dependency analysis
`bobbin refs`	Symbol reference resolution
`bobbin related`	Find files related to a given file
`bobbin history`	Show commit history and churn statistics
`bobbin hotspots`	Identify high-churn/complexity code
`bobbin impact`	Predict which files are affected by a change
`bobbin review`	Assemble review context from a git diff
`bobbin similar`	Find semantically similar code or detect duplicates
`bobbin status`	Show index statistics
`bobbin serve`	Start MCP server for AI agent integration
`bobbin tour`	Interactive tour of bobbin features
`bobbin prime`	Generate LLM-friendly overview with live stats
`bobbin benchmark`	Run embedding benchmarks
`bobbin watch`	Watch mode for automatic re-indexing
`bobbin completions`	Generate shell completions
`bobbin hook`	Claude Code hook integration

Bobbin uses Tree-sitter for structure-aware parsing, and pulldown-cmark for Markdown:

Language	Extensions	Extracted Units
Rust	`.rs`	functions, impl blocks, structs, enums, traits, modules
TypeScript	`.ts`, `.tsx`	functions, methods, classes, interfaces
Python	`.py`	functions, classes
Go	`.go`	functions, methods, type declarations
Java	`.java`	methods, constructors, classes, interfaces, enums
C++	`.cpp`, `.cc`, `.hpp`	functions, classes, structs, enums
Markdown	`.md`	sections, tables, code blocks, YAML frontmatter

Other file types fall back to line-based chunking (50 lines per chunk with 10-line overlap).