ksrc

One‑liner search and read for Kotlin 3rd-party dependency sources for AI agents.

Your AI agents take ~10 steps just to see a single Kotlin function's signature in a third-party library. ksrc turns that into two commands and ~4x less tokens.

What it is

It's a CLI utility to enable efficient source code search for AI agents working with Kotlin.

Ever saw an AI agent find a function's signature in TypeScript/Python? Simple rg over node_modules and a sed call is all it needs to discover APIs and signatures.

With Kotlin/Gradle, agents have to take a 15-step journey to download, locate, unpack and ripgrep source jars. ksrc turns 16k tokens wasted on that into 2 CLI commands.

Install

Homebrew (macOS/Linux):

brew tap respawn-app/tap
brew install ksrc

Standalone binaries via GitHub Releases:

Install script (macOS/Linux):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/respawn-app/ksrc/main/scripts/install.sh | sh

Manual install: download the appropriate archive for your OS/arch and place ksrc on your PATH.

Next up, install the claude code plugin/skill, to let your agents know they can use ksrc and how to use it.

Claude Code plugin

Add the Respawn marketplace, then install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add respawn-app/claude-plugin-marketplace
/plugin install ksrc@respawn-tools

Codex skill

Install from the public GitHub path:

$skill-installer install https://github.com/respawn-app/ksrc/tree/main/skills/ksrc

AGENTS.md prompt

Use ksrc bash command to discover Kotlin/gradle library dependency sources. Start with ksrc --help.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License.

See LICENSE.txt.