graphify README

The project's README from github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify. As one markdown file: README.md.

Graphify

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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.

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.

graphify's interactive graph.html showing the FastAPI codebase as a force-directed knowledge graph with a legend of detected communities

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.


See it in action

graphify path query: a terminal asks for the shortest path between FastAPI and ModelField, and the answer lights up hop by hop across the knowledge graph

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 "<question>" returns a scoped subgraph for a plain-language question, and graphify path A B traces how any two things connect.


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

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.


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

Install

Official package: The PyPI package is graphifyy (double-y). Other graphify* packages on PyPI are not affiliated. The CLI command is still graphify.

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: Use graphify . not /graphify . — the leading slash is a path separator in PowerShell.

graphify: command not found? uv tool install / pipx install put the graphify command 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 your PATH yet: run uv tool update-shell (or pipx ensurepath), then open a new terminal. With plain pip, add ~/.local/bin (Linux) or ~/Library/Python/3.x/bin (Mac) to your PATH, or run python -m graphify.

Running with uvx / uv tool run instead of installing? Name the package, not the command: uvx --from graphifyy graphify install. Plain uvx graphify … fails (No solution found … no versions of graphify) because uv tool run reads the first word as a package, and the package is graphifyy — the graphify command lives inside it.

Avoid pip install on Mac/Windows if possible. The skill resolves Python at runtime from graphify-out/.graphify_python; if that points to a different environment than where pip installed the package, you'll get ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'graphify'. uv tool install and pipx install isolate the package in their own env and avoid this entirely.

Git hooks and uv tool / pipx: graphify hook install embeds 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/bin is not on PATH. If you reinstall or upgrade graphify, re-run graphify hook install to refresh the embedded path.

Strict mode (Claude Code): graphify install --project --strict makes the assistant actually use the graph. The default install nudges it to run graphify query before 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 with GRAPHIFY_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 $graphify instead 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 (Python < 3.13 only) 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]"

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 "<question>" over reading the full report or grepping raw files.

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What is this?Graphify turns a whole codebase — plus its docs, SQL schemas, configs, and PDFs — into a queryable knowledge graph you traverse instead of grepping files.
Is this a library, or a skill for my AI coding assistant?It's a CLI tool plus a '/graphify' skill you register with your AI coding assistant (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, and 15+ others); it is not a Python library you import.
How do I get it running?Install the package (uv tool install graphifyy or pipx install graphifyy), register the skill with your assistant, then open your assistant and type '/graphify'; this produces a graph.json and graph.html you can query.
Do I need Python installed first?Yes, Python 3.10 or newer, plus either 'uv' (recommended) or 'pipx' to install the package in an isolated environment.
Any install pitfalls I should know about?Avoid plain 'pip install' on Mac/Windows: the skill resolves Python at runtime from a saved interpreter path, and if that doesn't match where pip put the package you get a ModuleNotFoundError; uv tool install or pipx avoid this because they isolate the environment.
Does any of my code leave my machine?Code parsing is fully local via tree-sitter AST with no LLM involved; only an optional semantic pass over docs, PDFs, images, or video calls a backend, and only if you configure one.
How does graphify compare to vector-based memory systems like mem0 or supermemory?On the LOCOMO benchmark graphify scores 0.497 recall@10 versus mem0's 0.048 and supermemory's 0.149, while spending zero LLM credits to build the graph, since it's a real traversable graph rather than an embeddings index.
What's the difference between EXTRACTED and INFERRED edges?EXTRACTED means the connection was explicit in the source code or docs; INFERRED means graphify resolved it through analysis, so you can always tell what was read directly versus derived.
What do I actually get after running /graphify once?Three files, including a graph.json you can query from the CLI or your assistant and a graph.html you can open and click through to explore detected communities and connections.
Why is the PyPI package called 'graphifyy' and not 'graphify'?The official package uses a double-y name, graphifyy, because other unrelated packages already occupy the plain 'graphify' name on PyPI; the command you actually run is still 'graphify'.
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