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Semantic search lets agents find content by meaning. A search for “how do we handle auth failures” can surface an artifact about “retry strategy for expired credentials” — no shared keywords required.
Semantic search is an account-level capability. When it isn’t enabled for your account, search behaves exactly as before (keyword matching) — and the response tells you which mode ran.

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Search modes

Every search runs in one of three modes, reported back in the response’s mode field:
ModeWhat it doesWhen it fails
hybrid (default)Fuses keyword and semantic rankingsNever — silently falls back to keyword
keywordExact and stemmed term matching onlyNever
semanticMeaning-based only — best for natural-language questionsErrors if semantic search isn’t enabled
rip search "how do we handle auth failures" --mode semantic

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Asking a single document a question

Scope a search to one artifact to get its most relevant passages — retrieval over a single document: 
rip search "termination clause" --artifact contract-2026
Results come back per-chunk with section titles and chunk positions, ranked by relevance. Your agent reads the passages and synthesizes the answer.

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Choosing what gets indexed

Owners control which content is semantically indexed with a tri-state embeddingEnabled flag on artifacts, folders, and workspaces:
  • true / false — explicit opt-in / opt-out
  • unset — inherit: artifact → folder → linked workspaces → account default