Modifying search or making custom search in Visual Studio Code Extension - visual-studio-code

I am currently trying to make an extension in visual studio that uses the results from the normal search and shows the results in it's own view that does not display the found results per file, but per user-defined modules.
For example the usual search gives:
4 results found in 3 files
src/extension.ts (2 results)
folder2/file1.ts (1 result)
folder2/file2.ts (1 result)
Then my extension could show:
4 results found in 2 modules
src/ (2 results)
folder2/ (2 results)
For this I looked up the Contribution points and in "contributes.menus" there is the Explorer context menu that contains the group "4_search" - Commands related to searching in the search view.
How can I use this contribution point for my extension? Is it even feasible to use the search results and show the data in a new view like the example above?
Edit:
I realised that I did not understand the contribution points at all when asking and it is not what I need. Do you know how I can execute a command whenever the user searches for something in the search view and get the search results as parameters for the command?
Thanks for your help.

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