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Local-first code intelligence graph for MCP and CLI. Builds a persistent map of your codebase so AI coding tools read only what matters, with benchmarked context reductions on reviews and large-repo workflows.

⭐ Very popular: 30k stars, gaining about 986 a week

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repo profile

vintage 2026 launched this year
delivery library
language Python
license MIT

momentum

total stars 30k
stars added last week +986
weekly downloads 119k /wk · PyPI
used by 18 repos & packages
commits / week 32 accelerating · +48% vs prior mo
issues closed 86% ~16d to close, median
contributors 126
release cadence fortnightly
last activity 13d ago

durability

backing community / independent
openness permissive
bus factor 2 concentrated
top-author share 39% 6 mo

bus factor = how many people it takes to cover more than half the commits (6 months). 1 is a solo project; higher means the work is spread across a team. top-author share is the single busiest author's slice of those commits.

since we covered it

monthly average + 5k/mo (+17%/mo) · + 3k total since PR#39

why it's a big deal

  • It turns code review into a graph query: 8.2x average token reduction across six real repos in its own benchmarks, up to 49x on a Next.js-scale monorepo, with 100% recall on actually impacted files.
  • It is agent-agnostic to an almost aggressive degree - a single install command auto-configures 14 platforms, from Codex and Claude Code to Cursor, Windsurf, Zed and Copilot. The graph is shared infrastructure, not a plugin for one vendor.
  • It benchmarks honestly: the README publishes its own sub-1x failure case on small single-file changes and names its weak spots (search ranking, flow detection) right next to the wins. That culture deserves stars on its own.

under the hood

  • Tree-sitter grammars for 24 languages plus Jupyter and Databricks notebooks; nodes and edges live in a local SQLite file, no external database, no cloud dependency.
  • Incremental updates via git hooks and SHA-256 diffing re-index a 2,900-file project in under two seconds; a multi-repo daemon keeps graphs fresh for editors without hook support.
  • 28 MCP tools (impact radius, budgeted graph traversal, hub and bridge detection, dead-code refactor previews) plus five workflow prompts, D3 visualization and GraphML/Neo4j/Obsidian exports. MIT-licensed.

our take from PR#39, 2026-07-30

star history

PR#39 · 28k30k now Feb 2026Aug 2026
  1. PR#39 28k 2026-07-30
  2. now 30k + 3k since first covered

curve is sampled from GitHub's star history, plus our own daily readings since we covered it; the dashed stretch is before we first covered it, the solid line since. figures at coverage are the numbers we printed then (approx.), current count is live.

understory

Output and attention are roughly in balance.

-2 understory score output 85 · clout 87
Aug 2025 Jul 2026
  • output, commits & releases
  • clout, star velocity

output = commits & releases; clout = star velocity, both 0 to 100 monthly indices; the gap where output runs above clout is the understory. The understory →

covered in

  • PR#39 2026-07-30 on the radar

    blast-radius analysis for every AI code review

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