Glean
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
0warn against
Nov 20, 2025first mention
Sep 11, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“If I'm using something like figma or glean or playwright/chrome dev tools, plugin/skill/mcp - likely very useful.”
“I plan to use https://glean.software/ as the central database for everything code”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Often compared with
From the makers not counted in the ranking
“a tool for reviewing commits / branches / wip.”
“glean (a review tool that lets you mark parts of the code as seen, leave comments, view diffs commit by commit or collapsed, etc)”
Threads where it came up
- Launch HN: Hyper (YC P26) – Company brain to power agentic development 3 mentions
- RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree 1 mention
- Ask HN: Who is using MCP in production? 1 mention
- Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver 1 mention
- How do you use Vim in the era of AI? 1 mention
- Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) 1 mention
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All comments 8
“If I'm using something like figma or glean or playwright/chrome dev tools, plugin/skill/mcp - likely very useful.”
“MCP is still the main way I use Cursor with enterprise systems like Glean, Jira, and Port.”
“I plan to use https://glean.software/ as the central database for everything code”
“apparently Glean uses knowledge graphs too”
“Glean can tell you why a ticket was filed or answer a specific question regarding a customer call.”
“over straight enterprise search (e.g., https://www.glean.com/)”
“my work pays for Copilot, GPT, Claude, cursor, Glean”
“Cloud search plus already exists: https://www.glean.com/product/workplace-search-ai”