code_similar

Anchor on a symbol you already know, get back the ones that resemble it.

Usage

code_similar({ name: "authenticate_user", top_k: 5 })

Returns symbols sorted by cosine similarity to the anchor’s vector:

=== Similar to `authenticate_user` ===

 0.812 │ verify_credentials (FUNCTION) │ src/auth/verify.rs:30
 0.747 │ check_api_key (FUNCTION) │ src/auth/api_key.rs:18
 0.681 │ validate_session (METHOD) │ src/session.rs:112

The anchor itself is excluded from results.

Arguments

Name	Type	Default	Description
name	string	required	Name of the anchor symbol
top_k	integer	10	Results to return

When to use

• “Show me other code that does what X does” — quickly find parallels across a codebase
• Refactor planning — know which functions will probably need the same change
• Discovery — surface duplicates and near-duplicates

Prereq

Embeddings must exist for the anchor symbol. Run code_embed_index({}) or enable auto-index.

See also

• code_semantic_search — natural-language query instead of anchor
• code_related — graph-based neighborhood (callers + callees)