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codegraph

A pre-indexed code knowledge graph for coding agents. One static binary — no Node runtime, no node_modules, no install-time network fetch.

Coding agents burn most of their context rediscovering the same thing: where a symbol is defined, what calls it, and what breaks if it changes. codegraph answers those from a local graph it maintains incrementally, so an agent can ask one question instead of grepping its way to an answer.

$ codegraph explore "release verification"

Returns the relevant symbols' verbatim source plus the call paths between them — ranked by graph relevance, not string similarity.

Supported platforms

On Windows, run codegraph inside WSL2 and install the linux binary for your architecture. Everything works there, including codegraph upgrade, because WSL2 is Linux.

One caveat worth knowing: if your project lives on a /mnt/<drive> Windows mount rather than inside the WSL2 filesystem, codegraph turns the file watcher off automatically — recursive watching across that mount is too slow to be reliable. Keep repositories on the WSL2 side (~/..., not /mnt/c/...) for full functionality, or pass --watch to force it on anyway.

Install

Download a binary from Releases:

TAG=v0.2.0
OS=$(uname -s | tr '[:upper:]' '[:lower:]')
ARCH=$(uname -m | sed 's/x86_64/amd64/;s/aarch64/arm64/')

curl -fLo codegraph \
  "https://github.com/seanb4t/codegraph-go/releases/download/${TAG}/codegraph_${TAG}_${OS}_${ARCH}"
chmod +x codegraph

Every binary is signed. Verify before you run it — the full walkthrough is in docs/RELEASE.md:

cosign verify-blob \
  --bundle "codegraph_${TAG}_${OS}_${ARCH}.sigstore.json" \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com \
  --certificate-identity-regexp \
    '^https://github\.com/seanb4t/codegraph-go/\.github/workflows/release\.ya?ml@refs/tags/v[0-9][^[:space:]]*$' \
  "codegraph_${TAG}_${OS}_${ARCH}"

Subsequent upgrades are self-service: codegraph upgrade resolves the latest release, verifies the signature against the identity compiled into the binary, and swaps itself.

Homebrew (macOS)

brew tap seanb4t/tap && brew install codegraph

Installs the binary, shell completions, and man pages in one step — see docs/RELEASE.md for exactly what the cask guarantees, a man-path caveat worth knowing before you run man codegraph, a bash-completion prerequisite for bash completion specifically, what to do if brew install refuses with "untrusted tap" on its first run, and how upgrades work under a brew-managed install. Upgrade with brew upgrade codegraph, not codegraph upgrade — running codegraph upgrade against a brew-managed install refuses with a pointer to that command and exits non-zero, rather than mutating the install behind Homebrew's bookkeeping; codegraph upgrade --check reports the same pointer and exits zero. The full command and flag reference, generated from the binary's own command tree, is docs/CLI-REFERENCE.md.

Quick start

cd your-project
codegraph init          # build the graph
codegraph explore "authentication middleware"
codegraph callers ParseToken
codegraph impact internal/store/pebble.go

init indexes the repo and writes to .codegraph/. From then on the graph is kept fresh automatically — by an in-process watcher, or by git hooks (codegraph githooks install) where a watcher isn't viable.

Use it from an agent

codegraph serve --mcp speaks MCP over stdio, with auto-sync on by default:

codegraph install       # register with detected agents
codegraph serve --mcp   # or run it directly

Eight tools are exposed: codegraph_explore, codegraph_node, codegraph_search, codegraph_callers, codegraph_callees, codegraph_impact, codegraph_files, codegraph_status.

codegraph_explore answers most questions in one call.

To expose fewer — a smaller tool surface leaves more of an agent's context for the work — set CODEGRAPH_MCP_TOOLS to the companions you want. It is a narrowing filter, not an allowlist: leaving it unset gives you all eight.

CODEGRAPH_MCP_TOOLS=node,status codegraph serve --mcp   # explore + node + status
CODEGRAPH_MCP_TOOLS= codegraph serve --mcp              # explore alone

codegraph_explore is always present and cannot be filtered out. An empty tool list means something else entirely: this repo has no index yet, so run codegraph init.

Commands

Every command has --help. Output is colorized on a TTY and byte-identical plain when piped — agents and pipelines never see escape codes.

Language support

Fourteen languages are registered. They are not equally supported, and the differences are documented rather than averaged away — see docs/LANGUAGE-CAPABILITY-MATRIX.md.

Performance

Median-of-3, on three real repositories, on the same machine:

All three repos, every metric. Indexing spread is wide — 4.3×–21.2× — and depends heavily on the language mix, so treat any single number with suspicion. Full methodology, pinned corpus commits, and raw per-run figures are in docs/BENCHMARKS.md.

Supply chain

The reason this is one static binary rather than a bundled runtime:

• Signed — cosign keyless, per binary, with the signing identity anchored to this repository's release workflow and a tag ref. The identity is compiled into the binary, so codegraph upgrade refuses anything signed elsewhere.
• Provenance — GitHub-native build provenance via actions/attest-build-provenance, published through GitHub's Attestations API, verifiable with gh attestation verify.
• SBOM — SPDX per platform, published as a release asset.
• Reproducible — CI rebuilds every release binary and fails on a hash diff.
• Scanned — govulncheck gates every merge.

Status

v0.2.0 — pre-1.0. The core is in daily use and the release pipeline is signed and attested end to end, but the API and CLI surface may still move before 1.0. Behavioral regression coverage is provided by the golden corpus suite — named property assertions over the in-repo behavioral corpus, re-frozen from codegraph-go's own output.

Contributing

Building from source requires a C toolchain — tree-sitter is CGo, and the reasoning behind that choice is in PARSER-DECISION.md.

CGO_ENABLED=1 go build ./cmd/codegraph
CGO_ENABLED=1 go test ./...

Issues and pull requests are welcome. Please read SECURITY.md before reporting anything security-related — don't open a public issue for a vulnerability.

License

MIT — see LICENSE. This project began as a Go rewrite of CodeGraph; see NOTICE for the original copyright.