glean-search

glean search

PREREQUISITE: Read ../glean-shared/SKILL.md for auth, global flags, and security rules.

Search for content in your Glean instance. Results are JSON.

glean search [flags]

Flags

Flag	Type	Default	Description
--datasource	[]string		Filter by datasource (repeatable)
--disable-query-autocorrect	boolean	false	Disable automatic query corrections
--disable-spellcheck	boolean	false	Disable spellcheck
--dry-run	boolean	false	Print request body without sending
--facet-bucket-size	integer	10	Maximum facet buckets per result
--fetch-all-datasource-counts	boolean	false	Return counts for all datasources
--json	string		Complete JSON request body (overrides individual flags)
--max-snippet-size	integer	0	Maximum snippet size in characters
--output	json | ndjson | text	json	Output format
--page-size	integer	10	Number of results per page
--query	string		Search query (positional arg) (required)
--query-overrides-facet-filters	boolean	false	Allow query operators to override facet filters
--response-hints	[]string	[RESULTS QUERY_METADATA]	Response hints
--return-llm-content	boolean	false	Return expanded LLM-friendly content
--tab	[]string		Filter by result tab IDs (repeatable)
--timeout	integer	30000	Request timeout in milliseconds
--type	[]string		Filter by document type (repeatable)

Examples

glean search "vacation policy" | jq '.results[].document.title'
glean search --json '{"query":"Q1 reports","pageSize":5,"datasources":["confluence"]}' | jq .

Discovering Commands

# Show machine-readable schema for this command
glean schema search

# List all available commands
glean schema | jq '.commands'