Search GitHub repositories, conversations (issues+PRs), discussions, or code, with full GitHub search syntax in the query: qualifiers (repo:, org:/user:, language:, path:, symbol:, content:, is:, stars:, label:, sort:stars), boolean AND/OR/NOT with parentheses, "exact strings", and /regex/. kind='repos': MINIMAL distinctive keywords - the project/library name only ('rtk', 'react query'); every extra word must ALL match and buries the canonical repo - filter with qualifiers, not prose. kind='code': ONE literal code pattern as it appears in files ('useState('), an "exact string", a /regex/, or symbol:name to find definitions, across 2.8M+ public repos; narrow with repo:/language:/path:. Not supported in code search: license:, enterprise:, is:vendored, is:generated. kind='conversations': returns compact previews - use glim_github_get for full content; sort: REPLACES relevance ranking (words match anywhere incl. comments), omit it for best matches. kind='discussions': GitHub Discussions, a SEPARATE index from issues/PRs - a question answered there never appears under conversations, so reach for it when a repo does its Q&A in Discussions; supports repo:/org:/author:/is:answered plus category: (the repo's own category name, needs a repo: scope), up to 10 results per page, no sort:. Set repo='owner/name' to scope to one repository (works with any kind; with repos it routes to conversations). kind is optional - inferred from the query (is:answered/category: -> discussions, is:/label: -> conversations, path:/symbol://regex/ -> code, stars:/topic: -> repos, else repos); a conversations search with no matches is retried as discussions and says so. Returns compact text by default; pass format='json' for full structured data.
