Grep
A Claude Code tool, read out of the shipped bundle. It was in the build from v2.1.138 and was gone by v2.1.162.
The built-in claude-api agent lost Read, Grep and Glob and now only has WebFetch scoped to one docs domain.
Not Anthropic's. This is the line from the earliest changelog entry here that named it, v2.1.259.
In the changelogs
6Releases whose published page names Grep.
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v2.1.259
claude-api built-in agent tool access tightened
The built-in claude-api agent lost Read, Grep and Glob and now only has WebFetch scoped to one docs domain.
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v2.1.259
remoteExecution.supported enabled on Grep and Search tools
Grep and Search now declare remote execution support, so those calls can be routed to a remote host.
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v2.1.69
ToolSearch Multi-Select and Search Hints
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v2.1.64
ToolSearch Multi-Select
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- v1.0.45
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v1.0.45
Deprecated Components
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First cited
0No release's published evidence quotes this name. The ledger indexes the Evidence lines of every changelog on this site, so this says nobody here has ever quoted it; it says nothing about how old the name is.
Presence across releases
3Build by build
265One row per release since the first build this name was read out of. Absent means the build was read and the name was not in it, never mined means no bundle for that release was ever archived, and a declared type or a default is only ever what that release's own bundle stated.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the tool does. All tools.