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Catenary

Catenary gives AI coding agents LSP-powered code intelligence. It manages a pool of language servers and exposes them through CLI commands and hooks — search, diagnostics, and navigation without shell-based text scanning.

Two CLI search commands — catenary grep and catenary glob — plus a tracked editing surface: edits flow through the host’s Edit/Write tools (or native sed -i for sweeps, whose writes the hook tracks too), and catenary diagnostics reports the errors and warnings for every file touched. Editing is tracked automatically — the first edit starts it, there is no start step. The agent never needs to know which language server handles which file.