H.2.1 Code Search
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Discovery is global even when editing is local.
- Index source, symbols, references, history, ownership records, generated surfaces, and representative consumers.
- Keep organization-wide search available from sparse or partial workspaces; populated paths are not the discovery boundary.
- Let people move from a symbol to definitions, callers, examples, owners, and change history.
- Distinguish a missing result from an unindexed language, stale index, access restriction, or genuinely absent code.
- Preserve owner lookup when review, build, or primary ownership services are degraded.