July 20, 2026

July 20th updates

Highlights

Code Finder: fast, efficient search for coding agents now in Beta

Our new MCP tool finds relevant code faster with lower token usage.

Code Finder, a fast and efficient agent optimized specifically for code search, is now available in Beta through the Sourcegraph MCP server.

Code Finder is a tool that helps coding agents quickly locate relevant implementations, configuration, tests, or documentation within a single repository. It returns a concise summary with links and line ranges, giving your agent focused results it can immediately use.

To show the strengths of using an optimized search agent, we assembled a benchmark suite with a variety of search tasks across several repositories, from small to large. The results show clear improvements in speed and cost. In particular, Code Finder is more than twice as fast compared to a coding agent searching with local tools and up to 40% cheaper than a coding agent using our MCP toolset, achieving comparable result quality.

Variant	Duration	Cost
Code Finder	1.00×	1.00×
MCP tools	1.14×	1.63×
Local search	2.19×	1.32×

Code Finder already powers file discovery within Deep Search, letting Deep Search spend less of its token budget locating files and more on reasoning about the code and producing a thorough final response.

Code Finder is free while in Beta. The feature will become billable with credits once it becomes generally available. For more information on our MCP server and Code Finder usage, see the documentation.

The new compare page is now generally available

See exactly what changed, at any scale.

Following its Beta period, the redesigned compare page is now generally available. It's a ground-up rebuild of how you view changes between two revisions — fast, complete, and built to stay useful even on very large diffs.

What you get:

A tree of changed files for a quick overview and fast navigation
Filters by file extension and file name, plus focus-on / hide-folder controls
The ability to mark files as viewed as you work through a review
Full before/after file view with code navigation support
Performance that holds up on diffs with thousands of files

There are two ways in: open any repository and click Compare, or go to a repository's Branches tab and compare branches directly.

This is the diff view we're adopting across Sourcegraph: it already powers the commit page and Agentic Batch Changes, and it'll soon roll out to more places where you review code.

Details

Improvements

Deep Search Add source file reader to evaluator

Added source.read_file module to the evaluator, enabling file search, reading exact repo/path/revision matches, and source context inspection within a single evaluator execution.
Code Intel Add alert for over-runtime SCIP upload processing

Added an alert for SCIP uploads that exceed the configured processing time limit.
Batch Changes Use required GitHub checks for CI status

Batch Changes now uses required GitHub checks when computing changeset CI status, preventing optional check failures from incorrectly marking changesets as failed.
Agentic Batch Changes Adjust changeset inspector UI
- Fixed flickering in diff UI when switching between tabs and commits
- Improved changeset inspector layout for better space utilization
- Changed diff UI commit navigation to show combined diff by default, with individual commit diffs available when selecting specific commits
Agentic Batch Changes Add renderer for buildImage step type
Agentic Batch Changes Audit log resolver mutations for Agentic Batch Changes

Site admins can now audit Agentic Batch Changes activity: tool approval decisions, agent deletion, and read token rotation are recorded in the audit log.
Agentic Batch Changes Immediately update batch spec upon apply, and fix consistency in showing stale workspaces

Batch change workspaces now display their last-known results (diff, steps, changeset specs, and timing) after re-preparing a spec but before re-executing, with a stale banner indicating the workspace needs to be re-run.
Agents More thorough Finder prompt + desc tweak

Improved Finder prompt to provide more complete answers with better file references.
Compare Make new compare page generally available

The new compare page is now generally available.
Compare Make compare page Perforce-ready

Improved Perforce compatibility for the compare page.
Compare Add commit/history panel to diff viewer

Added a commit/history panel to the compare page diff viewer, allowing users to view changes for individual commits within the selected range.
Executors Make batch-exec the default binary for executor jobs
MCP General MCP tool blocklist

Introduced a dedicated site config setting for blocking specific MCP tools. The setting is "mcp.tools.disabled": ["tool_name"] - you supply an array of tool names that should be disabled across all MCP endpoints.
MCP Enable Code Finder MCP by default, gate with AI terms

Enabled Code Finder MCP tool by default for customers who have signed AI terms.
MCP Add site config mcp.deepSearchTool.enabled

Added the mcp.deepSearchTool.enabled site configuration option for controlling the Deep Search tool on general-purpose MCP endpoints. The environment variable SRC_MCP_DISABLE_DEEPSEARCH_TOOL is deprecated and will be removed in a future release.
Security Show whether user is service account in audit logs

Audit logs now show whether the user is a service account or not.
UI Use new diff viewer on commit page
- The commit page now uses the new diff viewer component with improved mobile support
- Commit messages are now rendered as markdown
- On mobile devices, the diff viewer uses a drawer-style sidebar and unified view with merged line numbers

Fixes

Deep Search Use ':' delimiter for @-file mentions to disambiguate repo/path

Fixed ambiguous file mentions by using ':' delimiter between repository name and file path instead of '/', preventing the model from misinterpreting multi-segment repository names as a single repository.
Code Search Fix off by one space regression
Batch Changes Annotate redacted secrets in logs

Redacted secret values in executor logs are now annotated as {{ REDACTED secrets.NAME }} instead of ${{ secrets.NAME }} to make clear the value was removed.
Batch Changes Fail validation if step files contain invalid characters

Fail validation with a clear error when a hook step's files target path contains invalid characters.
Agentic Batch Changes Distinguish no-outcome from not-ready workspaces on publish

The publish_workspaces tool now distinguishes between workspaces that completed with no changes and workspaces that are not ready for publishing. Workspaces that finished execution (COMPLETED/SKIPPED) but produced an empty diff are reported separately as workspace_ids_no_outcome. The tool now errors immediately when a selected workspace has not successfully finished (still queued/processing, or failed/canceled), preventing silent failures and allowing the agent to wait or retry appropriately.
Agentic Batch Changes Avoid redundant streams while agents run

Avoided redundant SSE streams while BCA agents run, reducing browser connection usage
Agentic Batch Changes Fix duplicate final message in Claude Code rendering
Agentic Batch Changes Improve transcript metadata layout

Transcript step timestamps now adapt to available space: wider layouts show timestamps beside timeline dots on hover, while narrower layouts display them in tooltips.
Agentic Batch Changes Close paused agent streams

Fixed an issue where paused agent streams could exhaust browser connection limits and stall unrelated requests.
Agentic Batch Changes Validate buildImage.baseImage against container registry allow/denylist

Validate buildImage.baseImage against container registry allow/denylist to prevent unauthorized base images in Agentic Batch Changes.
Agents Back off message stream retries

Message stream retries now use exponential backoff (2/4/8/16/32 seconds) instead of retrying every 2ms, reducing unnecessary reconnect bursts.
Code Insights Keep errored insights dashboards usable

Fixed Code Insights dashboards failing to load when an errored insight contains chart data that cannot be rendered, allowing the affected insight to be edited or deleted.
Permissions Log GitLab API messages during permissions sync

GitLab API error messages are now logged during permissions sync to aid troubleshooting.
Security Update vulnerable JS dependencies
Security Add upper limit to number of log events that can be sent per batch

Added upper limit to number of log events that can be sent per batch
Security Update vulnerable JS dependencies
UI Fix permalink shortcuts after repo navigation

Fixed permalink shortcuts navigating to previously viewed repositories after navigating between files in different repositories.
UI Restore list item highlight visibility on popover surfaces i…
Metering Release entitlement even if context is cancelled

Fixed an edge case where entitlement release could fail if the context was cancelled during the operation.
Notifications Fix notification badge spacing for double-digit counts

Fixed notification badge spacing for double-digit counts in the sidebar.
User Settings Fix password creation

Fixed an issue where users who signed in through an external provider could not create a password.