Moderne, the Agent Tools company for AI-driven software engineering, today announced the expansion of its Agent Tools platform with the introduction of Moderne Trigrep, a high-speed code search capability designed to accelerate coding agents operating across large, multi-repository software estates.
As coding agents move into production workflows, execution efficiency becomes critical. Broad exploratory scans across entire codebases may work at a smaller scale, but at enterprise scale, they introduce unnecessary compute, added latency, and rising operational cost.
Moderne Trigrep addresses this directly.
Trigrep uses Zoekt-compatible trigram indexing. It generates indexes from OpenRewrite’s Lossless Semantic Trees (LSTs), extracting source and structural data from a compiler-accurate representation of the code rather than indexing raw files directly. Because search operates over precomputed trigram indexes, results are returned based on matching patterns rather than total repository size, allowing discovery to remain fast even across large repository estates.
Trigrep improves the performance of downstream analysis and transformation workflows by reducing the volume of files or repositories that must undergo semantic analysis before automation runs.
“The infrastructure that optimizes how agents execute is becoming as important as the models themselves,” said Jonathan Schneider, CEO and co-founder of Moderne. “Trigrep delivers sub-second discovery that narrows the execution surface before automation begins. At enterprise scale, speed and precision are what keep agent-driven engineering efficient.”
Unlike traditional code search tools focused on developer browsing, Trigrep operates as an execution primitive within the Moderne control plane. It supports literal, boolean, regular-expression, and structural pattern-matching queries and persists search results for downstream workflows.
Trigrep is agent-agnostic and designed to integrate into AI-driven workflows across enterprise environments. Within the Moderne platform, it becomes part of a governed orchestration layer operating across organization-scoped repository sets.
As organizations operationalize agents across their software portfolios, execution infrastructure is emerging as a critical layer. Model intelligence determines what can be changed. Execution efficiency determines whether those changes are viable at scale.
With Trigrep, Moderne continues to build out the foundational infrastructure that makes agent-driven engineering practical in enterprise environments.
Trigrep is now available as part of the Moderne CLI. Read our detailed blog for more information.
