Agent skill: use Everything CLI for Codex and Claude file searches

[DerrickZeng]

I made an unofficial community Agent Skill that teaches Codex, Claude Code, and compatible agents when to use ES for file discovery.

It does not route every search through Everything:
- Exact paths stay on direct path checks.
- Project-local filename/content searches stay on ripgrep.
- Unknown or cross-drive indexed searches use es.exe.
- Results are capped at 20 by default, then refined.

In a controlled synthetic test, the 20-result cap reduced returned text by 90% compared with an uncapped 200-result command. That saving came from the cap, not from ES alone; a known-root capped scan was faster.

Repository and 45-second demo:
https://github.com/DerrickZeng33/find-f ... ything-cli

Install:

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npx skills add DerrickZeng33/find-files-with-everything-cli --skill find-files-with-everything -g

Everything and ES remain separate prerequisites. The skill is read-only by default. This is an unofficial community project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by voidtools.

I'd appreciate feedback from experienced Everything/ES users, especially on the routing rules and CLI syntax.