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LemonCrow vs Universal Ctags

What Universal Ctags says, vs. what it scored.

Tag/definition indexer for editor jump-to-definition -- exact tag lookups only, no free-text or semantic query support.

What Universal Ctags says about itself
“Universal Ctags (abbreviated as u-ctags) is a maintained implementation of ctags. ctags generates an index (or tag) file of language objects found in source files for programming languages.”
Publishes no numbers ...never against another search tool ~4.5k stars ↗
What it actually scored — same 14 repos, same 7,213 queries as every other tool
Tool MRR p95 p100
LemonCrow +semantic (BGE) 0.727 390ms 1057ms
LemonCrow lexical (default) 0.676 134ms 319ms
Universal Ctags 0.237 1ms 12ms

No claim published -- positioned as editor infrastructure, not search. Fastest tool measured: 1ms p95 / 12ms p100. 0.237 MRR.

By query kind -- same benchmark, broken out (no reps in this eval: one deterministic pass per query)
Kind LemonCrow +semantic LemonCrow lexical Universal Ctags
definition 0.873 (n=1570) 0.871 (n=1570) 0.753(n=1570)
content 0.873 (n=1444) 0.864 (n=1444) 0.000(n=1444)
semantic 0.759 (n=1800) 0.576 (n=1800) 0.000(n=1800)
swebench 0.500 (n=1908) 0.493 (n=1908) 0.225(n=1908)
sessions 0.587 (n=491) 0.571 (n=491) 0.203(n=491)

n = query/gold pairs of that kind, out of 7,213 total -- every provider scored on all 5 kinds.

By repo -- all 15 repos in the corpus, same query set
Repo LemonCrow +semantic LemonCrow lexical Universal Ctags
astropy/astropy 0.772 0.715 0.262
atelier-ws/atelier-dev 0.467 0.477 0.232
atelier/atelier 0.594 0.557 0.214
django/django 0.689 0.652 0.247
matplotlib/matplotlib 0.801 0.747 0.240
mwaskom/seaborn 0.814 0.768 0.240
pallets/flask 0.735 0.671 0.213
psf/requests 0.840 0.803 0.277
pydata/xarray 0.815 0.764 0.283
pylint-dev/pylint 0.856 0.784 0.283
pytest-dev/pytest 0.826 0.739 0.264
scikit-learn/scikit-learn 0.740 0.669 0.196
sphinx-doc/sphinx 0.637 0.580 0.172
sympy/sympy 0.694 0.637 0.240
torvalds/linux 0.726 0.668 0.201

MRR per repo: n-weighted blend across all 5 query kinds, same 7,213-query run.

The true story

Same 14 repositories, same 7,213 query/gold pairs as every tool here, Universal Ctags included. Full methodology, every raw number, and the other 9 tools →