Graphify-Labs/graphify
Turn any codebase, with its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs, into a queryable knowledge graph. A /graphify skill for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Gemini CLI: local deterministic AST parsing, every edge explained, no vector store.
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Early access to the graphify platform is open before the public v1 launch: app.graphify.com
Type /graphify in your AI coding assistant and it maps your entire project (code, docs, PDFs, images, videos) into a knowledge graph you can query instead of grepping through files.
- Code maps for free, fully local. Code is parsed with tree-sitter AST: deterministic, no LLM, nothing leaves your machine. (Docs, PDFs, images and video use your assistant's model, or a configured API key, for a semantic pass.)
- Every edge is explained. Each connection is tagged
EXTRACTED(explicit in the source) orINFERRED(resolved by graphify), so you can tell what was read directly from what was inferred. - Not a vector index. No embeddings, no vector store: a real graph you traverse. Ask a question, trace the path between two things, or explain one concept.
Want this always-on, updating in the background across your code, docs, and meetings rather than only on demand? That is what we are building at graphify.com, and early access is open now at app.graphify.com.
The FastAPI codebase mapped by graphify. Every node is a concept, colors are detected communities, and the whole thing is clickable in graph.html.
Get started (30 seconds):
uv tool install graphifyy # install the CLI (or: pipx install graphifyy)
graphify install # register the skill with your AI assistant
Then, in your AI assistant:
/graphify .
That's it. You get three files:
graphify-out/
├── graph.html open in any browser — click nodes, filter, search
├── GRAPH_REPORT.md the highlights: key concepts, surprising connections, suggested questions
└── graph.json the full graph — query it anytime without re-reading your files
Works in Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, and 15+ more — pick your platform.
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See it in action
Once the graph is built you query it instead of reading files. Real output, graphify run on the FastAPI codebase shown above:
$ graphify explain "APIRouter"
Node: APIRouter
Source: routing.py L2210
Community: 2
Degree: 47
Connections (47):
--> RequestValidationError [uses] [INFERRED]
--> Dependant [uses] [INFERRED]
--> .get() [method] [EXTRACTED]
<-- __init__.py [imports] [EXTRACTED]
...
$ graphify path "FastAPI" "ModelField"
Shortest path (3 hops):
FastAPI --uses--> DefaultPlaceholder <--references-- get_request_handler() --references--> ModelField
Every edge carries a confidence tag (EXTRACTED = explicit in the source, INFERRED = derived by resolution), so you can tell what was read directly from what was inferred. graphify query "" returns a scoped subgraph for a plain-language question, and graphify path A B traces how any two things connect.
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What it does
What you get out of the box:
| Capability | What you get |
|---|---|
| God nodes | The most-connected concepts, so you see what everything flows through |
| Communities | The graph split into subsystems (Leiden), with LLM-free labels |
| Cross-file links | calls / imports / inherits / mixes_in resolved across ~40 languages via tree-sitter AST |
| Query, path, explain | Ask a question, trace the path between two things, or explain one concept, all against graph.json |
| Rationale + doc refs | # NOTE: / # WHY: comments and ADR/RFC citations become first-class nodes linked to the code |
| Beyond code | Docs, PDFs, images, and video/audio all map into the same graph |
| Local-first | Code is parsed locally with tree-sitter (no LLM, nothing leaves your machine); only the semantic pass over docs/media calls a backend, and only if you configure one |
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Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Metric | graphify | Field | |---|---|---|---| | LOCOMO (n=300) | recall@10 | 0.497 | mem0 0.048, supermemory 0.149 | | LOCOMO (n=300) | QA accuracy | 45.3% | supermemory 49.7%, mem0 27.3% | | LongMemEval-S (n=50) | QA accuracy | 76% | tied with dense RAG | | Graph build | LLM credits | 0 | per-token for most systems |
Every system ran on the same harness with the same model and budgets, scored by a judge blind-validated against a second judge (90.6% agreement, Cohen's kappa 0.81). Full per-system tables, the code-intelligence result, and reproduction commands: BENCHMARKS.md.
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Prerequisites
| Requirement | Minimum | Check | Install |
|---|---|---|---|
| Python | 3.10+ | python --version | python.org |
| uv (recommended) | any | uv --version | curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh \| sh |
| pipx (alternative) | any | pipx --version | pip install pipx |
macOS quick install (Homebrew):
brew install [email protected] uv
Windows quick install:
winget install astral-sh.uv
Ubuntu/Debian:
sudo apt install python3.12 python3-pip pipx
or install uv:
curl -LsSf https://astral.sh/uv/install.sh | sh
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Install
Official package: The PyPI package isgraphifyy(double-y). Othergraphify*packages on PyPI are not affiliated. The CLI command is stillgraphify.
Step 1 — install the package:
# Recommended (isolated env; if 'graphify' isn't found after, run: uv tool update-shell):
uv tool install graphifyy
Alternatives:
pipx install graphifyy
pip install graphifyy # may need PATH setup — see note below
Step 2 — register the skill with your AI assistant:
graphify install
That's it. Open your AI assistant and type /graphify .
To install the assistant skill into the current repository instead of your user
profile, add --project:
graphify install --project
graphify install --project --platform codex
Project-scoped installs write under the current directory, for example
.claude/skills/graphify/SKILL.md or .agents/skills/graphify/SKILL.md (plus a
references/ sidecar the skill loads on demand), and
print a git add hint for files that can be committed.
Per-platform commands that support project-scoped installs accept the same flag,
for example graphify claude install --project or graphify codex install --project.
PowerShell note: Usegraphify .not/graphify .— the leading slash is a path separator in PowerShell.
graphify: command not found?uv tool install/pipx installput thegraphifycommand in their tool bin dir (~/.local/bin). If your shell can't find it right after install — common on a fresh macOS + zsh setup — that dir isn't on yourPATHyet: runuv tool update-shell(orpipx ensurepath), then open a new terminal. With plainpip, add~/.local/bin(Linux) or~/Library/Python/3.x/bin(Mac) to your PATH, or runpython -m graphify.
Running withuvx/uv tool runinstead of installing? Name the package, not the command:uvx --from graphifyy graphify install. Plainuvx graphify …fails (No solution found … no versions of graphify) becauseuv tool runreads the first word as a package, and the package isgraphifyy— thegraphifycommand lives inside it.
Avoidpip installon Mac/Windows if possible. The skill resolves Python at runtime fromgraphify-out/.graphify_python; if that points to a different environment than wherepipinstalled the package, you'll getModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'graphify'.uv tool installandpipx installisolate the package in their own env and avoid this entirely.
Git hooks and uv tool / pipx:graphify hook installembeds the current interpreter path directly into the hook scripts at install time, so the post-commit hook fires correctly even in GUI git clients and CI runners where~/.local/binis not on PATH. If you reinstall or upgrade graphify, re-rungraphify hook installto refresh the embedded path.
Strict mode (Claude Code):graphify install --project --strictmakes the assistant actually use the graph. The default install nudges it to rungraphify querybefore reading files; strict mode blocks the first raw source read of a session and redirects it to the graph, then reverts to the nudge (so it fires at most once per session and never gets stuck). Toggle at runtime withGRAPHIFY_HOOK_STRICT=1/0; the default install is unchanged (soft nudge).
Pick your platform (20+ assistants, click to expand)
| Platform | Install command |
|----------|----------------|
| Claude Code (Linux/Mac) | graphify install |
| Claude Code (Windows) | graphify install (auto-detected) or graphify install --platform windows |
| CodeBuddy | graphify install --platform codebuddy |
| Codex | graphify install --platform codex |
| OpenCode | graphify install --platform opencode |
| Kilo Code | graphify install --platform kilo |
| GitHub Copilot CLI | graphify install --platform copilot |
| VS Code Copilot Chat | graphify vscode install |
| Aider | graphify install --platform aider |
| OpenClaw | graphify install --platform claw |
| Factory Droid | graphify install --platform droid |
| Trae | graphify install --platform trae |
| Trae CN | graphify install --platform trae-cn |
| Gemini CLI | graphify install --platform gemini |
| Hermes | graphify install --platform hermes |
| Kimi Code | graphify install --platform kimi |
| Amp | graphify amp install |
| Agent Skills (cross-framework) | graphify install --platform agents (alias --platform skills) |
| Kiro IDE/CLI | graphify kiro install |
| Pi coding agent | graphify install --platform pi |
| Cursor | graphify cursor install |
| Devin CLI | graphify devin install |
| Google Antigravity | graphify antigravity install |
Codex users also need multi_agent = true under [features] in ~/.codex/config.toml for parallel extraction. CodeBuddy uses the same Agent tool and PreToolUse hook mechanism as Claude Code. Factory Droid uses the Task tool for parallel subagent dispatch. OpenClaw and Aider use sequential extraction (parallel agent support is still early on those platforms). Trae uses the Agent tool for parallel subagent dispatch and does not support PreToolUse hooks, so AGENTS.md is the always-on mechanism.
--platform agents (alias --platform skills) targets the generic cross-framework Agent-Skills locations: the spec's user-global ~/.agents/skills/ (read by npx skills and spec-compliant frameworks) for a global install, and ./.agents/skills/ for a project (--project) install. The bare graphify install stays single-platform (Claude Code) by design — use the named agents platform when you want the skill discoverable by any framework that reads .agents/skills.
Codex uses$graphifyinstead of/graphify.
Optional extras (install only what you need)
| Extra | What it adds | Install |
|---|---|---|
| pdf | PDF extraction | uv tool install "graphifyy[pdf]" |
| office | .docx and .xlsx support | uv tool install "graphifyy[office]" |
| google | Google Sheets rendering | uv tool install "graphifyy[google]" |
| video | Video/audio transcription (faster-whisper + yt-dlp) | uv tool install "graphifyy[video]" |
| mcp | MCP stdio server | uv tool install "graphifyy[mcp]" |
| neo4j | Neo4j push support | uv tool install "graphifyy[neo4j]" |
| falkordb | FalkorDB push support | uv tool install "graphifyy[falkordb]" |
| svg | SVG graph export | uv tool install "graphifyy[svg]" |
| leiden | Leiden community detection (graspologic on Python < 3.13; native backend on 3.13+) | uv tool install "graphifyy[leiden]" |
| ollama | Ollama local inference | uv tool install "graphifyy[ollama]" |
| openai | OpenAI / OpenAI-compatible APIs | uv tool install "graphifyy[openai]" |
| gemini | Google Gemini API | uv tool install "graphifyy[gemini]" |
| anthropic | Anthropic Claude API (--backend claude, uses ANTHROPIC_API_KEY) | uv tool install "graphifyy[anthropic]" |
| bedrock | AWS Bedrock (uses IAM, no API key) | uv tool install "graphifyy[bedrock]" |
| azure | Azure OpenAI Service (--backend azure, uses AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY + AZURE_OPENAI_ENDPOINT) | uv tool install "graphifyy[openai]" |
| sql | SQL schema extraction | uv tool install "graphifyy[sql]" |
| postgres | Live PostgreSQL introspection (--postgres DSN) | uv tool install "graphifyy[postgres]" |
| dm | BYOND DreamMaker .dm/.dme AST extraction (may need a C compiler + python3-dev if no wheel matches your platform) | uv tool install "graphifyy[dm]" |
| terraform | Terraform / HCL .tf/.tfvars/.hcl AST extraction | uv tool install "graphifyy[terraform]" |
| pascal | Pascal / Delphi .pas/.dpr/.dpk/.inc AST extraction (more accurate calls/inherits edges; falls back to a regex extractor when absent) | uv tool install "graphifyy[pascal]" |
| ocaml | OCaml .ml/.mli AST extraction | uv tool install "graphifyy[ocaml]" |
| commonlisp | Common Lisp .lisp/.cl/.lsp/.asd AST extraction | uv tool install "graphifyy[commonlisp]" |
| robot | Robot Framework .robot/.resource extraction (suites, test cases, keywords, keyword-call and resource/library import edges) | uv tool install "graphifyy[robot]" |
| chinese | Chinese query segmentation (jieba) | uv tool install "graphifyy[chinese]" |
| all | Everything above | uv tool install "graphifyy[all]" |
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Make your assistant always use the graph
Run this once in your project after building a graph:
| Platform | Command |
|----------|---------|
| Claude Code | graphify claude install |
| CodeBuddy | graphify codebuddy install |
| Codex | graphify codex install |
| OpenCode | graphify opencode install |
| Kilo Code | graphify kilo install |
| GitHub Copilot CLI | graphify copilot install |
| VS Code Copilot Chat | graphify vscode install |
| Aider | graphify aider install |
| OpenClaw | graphify claw install |
| Factory Droid | graphify droid install |
| Trae | graphify trae install |
| Trae CN | graphify trae-cn install |
| Cursor | graphify cursor install |
| Gemini CLI | graphify gemini install |
| Hermes | graphify hermes install |
| Kimi Code | graphify install --platform kimi |
| Amp | graphify amp install |
| Agent Skills (cross-framework) | graphify agents install (alias graphify skills install) |
| Kiro IDE/CLI | graphify kiro install |
| Pi coding agent | graphify pi install |
| Devin CLI | graphify devin install |
| Google Antigravity | graphify antigravity install |
This writes a small config file that tells your assistant to consult the knowledge graph for codebase questions, preferring scoped queries like graphify query "" over reading the full report or grepping raw files.
- Hook platforms (Claude Code, Gemini CLI): a hook fires automatically before search-style tool calls (and, on Claude Code, before reading source files one by one via the Read/Glob tools) and nudges your assistant toward the graph path.
- Instruction-file platforms (Codex, OpenCode, Cursor, etc.): persistent instruction files (
AGENTS.md,.cursor/rules/, etc.) provide the same query-first guidance.
GRAPH_REPORT.md is still available for broad architecture review.
CodeBuddy does the same two things as Claude Code: writes a CODEBUDDY.md section telling CodeBuddy to read graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md before answering architecture questions, and installs PreToolUse hooks (.codebuddy/settings.json) that fire before Bash search commands and file reads, nudging toward graphify query instead.
Codex writes to AGENTS.md, which is what actually carries the always-on graph guidance on this platform. graphify codex install also registers a PreToolUse hook in .codex/hooks.json (graphify hook-check), but that entry is deliberately a no-op: Codex Desktop rejects hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext on PreToolUse, so emitting a nudge there would break Bash tool calls. Unlike Claude Code, where the hook (graphify hook-guard) does the nudging, on Codex the hook fires and intentionally does nothing, and AGENTS.md is the always-on mechanism.
Kilo Code installs the Graphify skill to ~/.config/kilo/skills/graphify/SKILL.md and a native /graphify command to ~/.config/kilo/command/graphify.md. graphify kilo install also writes AGENTS.md plus a native tool.execute.before plugin (.kilo/plugins/graphify.js + .kilo/kilo.json or .kilo/kilo.jsonc registration) so Kilo gets the same always-on graph reminder behavior through native .kilo config.
Cursor writes .cursor/rules/graphify.mdc with alwaysApply: true, so Cursor includes it in every conversation automatically, no hook needed.
To remove graphify from all platforms at once: graphify uninstall (add --purge to also delete graphify-out/). Or use the per-platform command (e.g. graphify claude uninstall).
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What's in the report
- God nodes — the most-connected concepts in your project. Everything flows through these.
- Surprising connections — links between things that live in different files or modules. Ranked by how unexpected they are.
- The "why" — inline comments (
# NOTE:,# WHY:,# HACK:), docstrings, and design rationale from docs are extracted as separate nodes linked to the code they explain. - Suggested questions — 4–5 questions the graph is uniquely positioned to answer.
- Confidence tags — every inferred relationship is marked
EXTRACTED,INFERRED, orAMBIGUOUS. You always know what was found vs guessed.
What files it handles
| Type | Extensions |
|------|-----------|
| Code (37 tree-sitter grammars) | .py .ts .mts .cts .js .jsx .tsx .mjs .go .rs .java .c .cpp .cc .cxx .h .hpp .cu .cuh .metal .rb .cs .kt .kts .scala .php .swift .lua .luau .toc .zig .ps1 .psm1 .psd1 .ex .exs .m .mm .ml .mli .jl .vue .svelte .astro .groovy .gradle .dart .v .sv .svh .sql .f .f90 .f95 .f03 .f08 .pas .pp .dpr .dpk .lpr .inc .dfm .lfm .lpk .sh .bash .json .dm .dme .dmi .dmm .dmf .sln .slnx .csproj .fsproj .vbproj .xaml .razor .cshtml (.dm/.dme requires uv tool install graphifyy[dm], .ml/.mli requires uv tool install graphifyy[ocaml]; .mts/.cts reuse the TypeScript grammar, .cc/.cxx and CUDA .cu/.cuh and Metal .metal reuse the C++ grammar) |
| Salesforce Apex | .cls .trigger (regex-based; classes, interfaces, enums, methods, triggers, SOQL/DML edges) |
| Terraform / HCL | .tf .tfvars .hcl (requires uv tool install graphifyy[terraform]) |
| OCaml | .ml .mli (requires uv tool install graphifyy[ocaml]) |
| Common Lisp | .lisp .cl .lsp .asd (requires uv tool install graphifyy[commonlisp]) |
| Robot Framework | .robot .resource (via the official robot.api parser, requires uv tool install graphifyy[robot]; suites, test cases, user keywords, keyword-call and Resource/Library/Variables import edges) |
| MCP configs | .mcp.json mcp.json mcp_servers.json claude_desktop_config.json — extracts server nodes, package refs, env var requirements |
| Package manifests | apm.yml pyproject.toml go.mod pom.xml — one canonical package node per package (by name) plus depends_on edges, so a package referenced from many manifests is a single hub |
| Docs | .md .mdx .qmd .html .txt .rst .yaml .yml (markdown text links and [[wikilinks]] become references edges between docs) |
| Office | `.docx .xl
