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Gergő Magyar 2a97656e48 perf(import-target): index the workspace once per run for go/csharp/dart/ruby (#2898)
* perf(import-target): index the workspace once per run for go/csharp/dart/ruby

Four import-target resolvers answered their lookups with a full
`allFilePaths` scan per import, making resolution O(imports x files):

- go (#2877): `findRootPackageFiles` / `findAllFilesInPkgDir`, the latter
  once per path segment on the GOPATH fallback. Most Go imports are
  external, so the whole cascade ran to completion before returning null.
- csharp (#2878): the no-csproj leg took the raw Set past the memoized
  index the csproj leg was already using - up to eight passes for a
  four-segment `using`.
- dart (#2879): one scan per candidate path, and for an external package
  both candidates miss, so both always ran to completion.
- ruby (#2880): a complete `buildSuffixIndex` rebuilt and discarded per
  `require` - every require paid to index every file in the repo.

Each now reads an index memoized on the `allFilePaths` Set identity, the
shape `getPythonFileIndex` (#1918) and csharp's own `getWorkspaceFileIndex`
(#1881) already used. Two shared modules back them:

- `workspace-file-index.ts`: normalized list + `SuffixIndex` + a
  normalized->raw map, for csharp and ruby.
- `package-dir-index.ts`: "which files live directly inside a directory
  ending with <path>", for go and csharp. Candidates are bucketed by the
  directory's last segment rather than by indexing every directory suffix,
  which would cost O(files x depth) entries at kernel scale (#2649).

Behaviour is unchanged, including the tie-breaks that are expressed only
through Set-iteration order and `indexOf` positions: the go root leg stays
sorted and its package leg stays unsorted, the first-occurrence rule that
excludes a directory nested inside a same-named directory is preserved,
csharp's whole-path match still beats an earlier suffix match, and dart
still tries `lib/<rel>` fully before bare `<rel>` and matches raw paths.

Verified two ways. `import-target-index-parity.test.ts` keeps verbatim
copies of the pre-change implementations and diffs against them over a
deterministic corpus plus hand-built layouts for each tie-break; six
mutations of the new code were confirmed to fail it. Separately, the bench
corpus produces byte-identical fingerprints against the pre-change
resolvers at both 400 and 1600 files.

`bench/import-target/measure.mjs` gates both arms in CI: per-language
output fingerprints, a scaling budget (measured 0.98-1.12 here, 3.32-4.10
against the pre-change scans), and the corpus shape, so the corpus cannot
be shrunk below the size the scaling arm needs and still print PASS.

Closes #2877
Closes #2878
Closes #2879
Closes #2880

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BCptYZWRgnnJ821rzebQyj

* perf(import-target): cover kotlin, and add depth + absolute-cost arms

#2872 landed the same index hoist for Kotlin while this branch was open.
Fold it into the shared measures so all five resolvers are gated on one
corpus, and adopt the two arms that PR's review proved a scaling ratio
alone cannot carry.

- `bench/import-target/measure.mjs` gains a kotlin arm: a Gradle-shaped
  corpus with per-module source roots over one package namespace, `.kt`
  and `.kts` stems, a nested same-name package directory, and a share of
  wildcard `.*` imports so the package fan-out tier — the only tier whose
  output is order-bearing — is inside the fingerprint.

- `depth_ratio`: deep arm at a FIXED file count with ~6x the path
  components. `scaling_ratio` divides the file count out, so it is
  scale-invariant and structurally cannot see a cost that grows with path
  depth instead, and `buildSuffixIndex` (C#, Ruby) and Kotlin's
  `suffixByStem` each emit one entry per component. Measured: go 0.98,
  dart 0.88 (depth-free indexes), ruby 1.48, kotlin 2.20, csharp 3.45 —
  which is why the budget is per language. One global budget would have
  to sit at 5.0 and would let Dart go 0.88 -> 4.9 unnoticed.

- `small_ms_ceiling`: an absolute bound at 4x the measured arm, because a
  constant-factor regression that grows both scale arms equally passes
  every ratio.

- The deep arm must resolve exactly what the small arm resolves. Padding
  was supposed to change depth and nothing else; a deep arm that stopped
  resolving would be timing the null path.

The five fingerprints are unchanged by this commit - verified against the
previous baseline before rewriting it, so adding the kotlin arm and the
deep scale did not perturb the four languages' output.

Kotlin joins the Set-iteration counter in
`import-target-index-parity.test.ts` too. Its own guard
(`kotlin-import-index-reuse.test.ts`) counts index BUILDS, which a scan
added beside a reused index does not move.

That counter is also the only DETERMINISTIC guard against a reintroduced
scan, and this commit documents why rather than pretending otherwise: a
full workspace scan on 1-in-32 imports was measured to pass every timing
arm here (dart, 1.458 scaling against a 1.8 budget, 1.736 ms against a
4 ms ceiling) while the counter reads 14 instead of 1. Tightening the
ceilings toward the noise floor to chase that case would only buy flaky
CI.

`bench/kotlin-import-target/` stays: it fingerprints both file-set
iteration orders and probes the four-tier cascade shape by shape, neither
of which this corpus does.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BCptYZWRgnnJ821rzebQyj

* perf(import-target): merge matching package dirs in one pass

`filesDirectlyInPkgDir` re-spread its accumulator once per matching
directory, costing O(files x dirs^2) copies per import. On a Go monorepo
where many services carry the same package directory (`svcN/internal/pkg`,
which Go's GOPATH cascade queries by two-segment tail) that made the index
SLOWER than the scan it replaced: 13.4x at 1600 matching directories.

Append into one array and sort once. Measured against a verbatim copy of
the pre-change scan, output byte-identical at every k:

  k=200   1400 files   old 0.126 ms   was 0.169 ms   now 0.042 ms
  k=800   5600 files   old 0.457 ms   was 3.002 ms   now 0.185 ms
  k=1600 11200 files   old 0.960 ms   was 12.890 ms  now 0.232 ms

The index now beats the scan by 2.5-4.1x on this shape instead of losing
to it by up to 13x.

Also drop the min-`ord` comparison in `firstFileDirectlyInPkgDir`: the
build loop appends a directory to its last-segment bucket the moment it
accepts that directory's first file, so bucket order already IS ascending
first-file-`ord` order and the first hit is the minimum. Differentially
verified at 0 divergences. The invariant, and the build-loop edits that
would silently break it, are now recorded at the early return.

Type the index containers as deeply readonly so Go's deliberate
`[...rootFiles].sort()` copy is compile-enforced rather than
comment-enforced, and correct the header's claim that a polyglot repo
"never pays" -- only the stored index is per-language.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013rLy781K8E3rRHFGEe1khJ

* test(import-target): guard index reuse at the adapter boundary

`workspace-file-index.ts` documented the hazard as "a defensive
`new Set(allFilePaths)` in an ADAPTER" -- the bug #1918 shipped -- and
named the unit parity test as the guard. It is not: that test imports the
resolvers directly, while production reaches them through
`<lang>ScopeResolver.resolveImportTarget`. Inserting the copy at
`go/scope-resolver.ts:31`, `csharp:35`, `dart:189` and `ruby:268` left the
parity test 28/28 green and `measure.mjs --check` PASS in all four cases.
Kotlin and Python already had adapter-level guards; go/csharp/dart/ruby
had none.

Add `test/integration/<lang>-import-index-reuse.test.ts` for the four,
mirroring the Kotlin/Python precedent: resolve through the scope resolver,
assert the file set is traversed once (twice for C#, which builds two
indexes), and pair every count with a result assertion so a count of 1
cannot be the count of an adapter that resolves nothing. Each was proven
to fail under the copy it exists to catch:

  go     expected 600 to be 1     dart   expected 600 to be 1
  ruby   expected 400 to be 1     csharp expected 600 to be 2

`CountingSet` moves to `test/helpers/counting-file-set.ts` and now counts
`forEach`, `values`, `keys` and `entries` as well as `[Symbol.iterator]`.
It missed a rescan spelled `allFilePaths.forEach(...)` entirely; with the
overrides that mutation reads 14 instead of 1.

Four fixtures that pinned the guard next door, each now shown to kill its
mutation:
- the Dart "matched RAW" case used a forward-slash target, so the basename
  bucket missed before the raw comparison was reached and it asserted
  `null === null`. A positive twin carrying the backslash in the TARGET
  catches both half-mutations.
- no C# or Ruby target addressed the corpus's `win\dir\thing` file, so
  deleting the backslash normalization in `workspace-file-index.ts` passed
  both gates. Now 4 failures.
- `normToRaw`'s first-wins rule had no normalization twin in any corpus.
- the Go nested-package fixture was decided by the `endsWith` half and
  never reached the first-occurrence branch its title names; addressing
  the directory as a single segment makes it reach it.

The parity test's own docstring no longer claims the scan count is a
complete census -- it names the three materialized arrays it cannot see.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013rLy781K8E3rRHFGEe1khJ

* test(import-target): assert every scale, add collide and retained-heap arms

Three holes in the gate this PR ships as its own proof.

1. `--check` computed three fingerprints per language, stored all three,
   and compared one. `DEEP_PAD = 16 -> 0` deleted the entire depth arm and
   still printed PASS, because depth padding is count-neutral by design so
   no asserted number moved. Assert `fingerprint` per scale, and assert
   `deep.fingerprint !== small.fingerprint` so the padding's EFFECT is
   pinned, not just its output.

2. The corpus minted per-index directory names (`src/pkg${d}`,
   `src/Ns${d}`, `lib/feature${d}`), so max last-segment bucket and max
   matching dirs were both 1 -- and bucket cardinality is the only
   non-constant term the index has. The `dirCount > 1` merge branch had
   never executed in any arm. Add a `collide` arm on shared-leaf layouts
   with identical files/imports/resolved counts; it reaches 9,269
   multi-directory merges per run, up to 34 directories at once. Go and
   C#/Dart legitimately score above the linear budget there and get their
   own; Ruby and Kotlin stay at 1.8 because their keyed maps are
   collision-immune and that immunity is the assertion.

3. No arm measured memory, while the C# no-csproj leg newly retains an
   O(files x depth) suffix index. Add a retained-heap arm on the
   `bench/cfg` pattern, including its loud failure when `--expose-gc` is
   missing rather than a silent skip. Measured at 32k files:
   csharp 73.62 MiB, ruby 55.26 MiB. Ceiling is 1.5x, NOT the 4x the
   timing arms use -- the measurement is byte-stable to 0.00085% across
   processes, so 4x would be throwing away the gate. `_arms_note` records
   why, so nobody harmonises it back.

`depth_ratio`, added by this PR, flaked ~1-in-20: go peaked at 1.748 and
dart at 2.043 against a 1.6 budget, both ratios of two sub-3 ms minima.
Fixed at the estimator, not the threshold -- REPS 5 -> 15, matching
`bench/cfg`, `schema-pairs` and `callable-value-flow` (5 was the lowest in
the repo; the sibling `kotlin-import-target` uses 7, which was not enough
here). 22/22 PASS, every arm now at 70-78% of its budget with a <=1.26x
swing. No budget was widened; the distributions are recorded in
`_arms_note` so the headroom is visibly earned.

Three copies of the same overclaim corrected: the parity test NARROWS the
1-in-32 blind spot, it does not close it -- it watches the Set while the
resolvers hold materialized arrays. `_floor` no longer claims its ratios
"match" the issues' (different corpora, both quadratic).

The step moves to the END of the benchmarks job and runs with
`--expose-gc`. A failing step aborts every step after it (#2895), so the
newest, least-proven gate must not sit ahead of eight established ones.

All five output fingerprints are byte-identical to before this session --
the proof that every change here was behaviour-preserving.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013rLy781K8E3rRHFGEe1khJ

* docs(import-target): point the reuse contract at the guard that guards it

`workspace-file-index.ts` told callers the unit parity test guards the
adapter-copy hazard. It does not -- it never crosses the adapter. Name
both layers and say which catches what: the per-language
`test/integration/<lang>-import-index-reuse.test.ts` files at the adapter
boundary, the parity test for a rescan reintroduced inside a resolver.

The C# namespace-dir index comment named `findDirectChild`, which this PR
deleted; it feeds `firstFileDirectlyInPkgDir` now.

Drop `GoResolveContext`, dead since the legacy call-resolution DAG was
removed in #942 -- zero importers, and `gitnexus`'s package.json declares
no `main`, `exports` or `types`, so it is not a published surface.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013rLy781K8E3rRHFGEe1khJ

* refactor(import-target): quality pass over the review-round changes

Four cleanup lanes (reuse / simplification / efficiency / altitude) over the
previous four commits. No behaviour change anywhere: all 25 bench cells
(5 languages x 5 arms) are byte-identical on files, imports, resolved,
distinct_outcomes and fingerprint, re-verified after each individual edit.

**Restores a fast path the last commit lost.** Fixing the O(k^2) accumulator
made the SINGLE-directory case — the overwhelmingly common one — copy the
bucket where the original aliased it: measured 1.11x slower at 4 files/dir
rising to 1.72x at 128. Holding the first bucket by reference and promoting to
an accumulator only when a second directory appears is 0.65-0.97x of the
previous code at dirCount=1 and parity at dirCount=64. 176-case differential,
0 divergences.

**`sortedRootFiles` accessor.** `rootFiles` was the only index container read
directly from outside the module. `readonly` is erased at runtime and
`Array.isArray` widens it back, so the copy rule now lives with the code that
owns the invariant instead of at the call site. No `Object.freeze`: V8's
PACKED_FROZEN_ELEMENTS read cost lands on the hot `matchingDirs` path.

**One shared arm for the four reuse guards.** The distinct-file-set test was
copy-pasted four ways, 33-38 identical lines each, and this repo's own helpers
(`mini-repo.ts`, `scope-model.ts`) document extracting at the SECOND verbatim
consumer. `expectDistinctFileSetsGetOwnIndex` takes what actually varies; its
`expected` type excludes `null` so the pairing rule cannot be reinstated as a
hole. The per-language first and third arms stay duplicated on purpose —
corpora and payload shapes genuinely differ. Re-proven: all four still fail
under an adapter-inserted `new Set(allFilePaths)`.

**Bench.** `dirsFor` shared by the two functions that must agree on directory
fan-out (they mint and address the same files). `SCALES` derived from the arm
table, so a future arm cannot be measured, printed and silently never asserted.
Five timing checks with one shape collapsed to a table — the trailing sentence
had already drifted into four wordings. `uniqueTarget`/`collideTarget` as flat
functions, mirroring the `uniqueDir`/`collideDir` split rather than nesting a
second axis four ternaries deep. One `identityPass` replaces two untimed full
resolution passes per cell: -371 ms median.

**CI step moved back where it belongs.** It was parked last "until #2895
lands", but that reasoning was backwards twice over: the flake that motivated
it was fixed at the estimator in the previous commit, and #2895's own audit
measured the last slot as executing zero times in 13 runs. It sits with the
other resolver-index guards; #2899 carries the `if: !cancelled()` that fixes
step masking for every step at once.

Filed rather than fixed here: #2908 (java and cobol still scan the workspace
per import, same shape as #2877-#2880, neither memoized), #2909 (make index
reuse a contract test over SCOPE_RESOLVERS on one instrument).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Co58j4au9JLf8dmJpwdF9B

---------

Co-authored-by: Gergo Magyar <gergomagyar0@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.claude feat: close reported graph blind spots in reference resolution, analyze and storage (#2856) 2026-08-08 09:58:14 +01:00
.claude-plugin chore: release v1.6.9 (#2367) 2026-07-04 07:53:06 +01:00
.cursor fix(storage): rename index metadata to gitnexus.json with dual-write compatibility (#2363) 2026-07-03 19:32:59 +01:00
.devcontainer fix: large-repo analyze OOM and false worker-timeout cascade (#2649) (#2679) 2026-07-25 09:16:17 +01:00
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On npm 11.x? npx can crash during install with Cannot destructure property 'package' of 'node.target' (an npm/arborist bug, before GitNexus runs). Use pnpm instead — it builds the native deps explicitly:

pnpm --allow-build=@ladybugdb/core --allow-build=gitnexus --allow-build=tree-sitter dlx gitnexus@latest analyze

Or install globally (npm install -g gitnexus@latest) and run gitnexus analyze. See #1939.

Fastest MCP startup: install globally (npm i -g gitnexus) before running gitnexus setup — this writes an absolute-path MCP config that bypasses npx entirely. On a cold cache, an npx-based MCP install can exceed Claude Code's MCP_TIMEOUT default (~30s).

No C++ toolchain? Set GITNEXUS_SKIP_OPTIONAL_GRAMMARS=1 before npm install -g gitnexus to skip the vendored grammar materialize/build for tree-sitter-dart, tree-sitter-proto, tree-sitter-swift, and tree-sitter-kotlin — those four languages won't be parsed, but install completes in seconds without python3/make/g++. Strict =1 only — any other value falls through to the rebuild.

Behind an HTTP proxy / regional firewall? onnxruntime-node's postinstall downloads optional CUDA binaries from api.nuget.org and ignores HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY (#2370). The embedding stack is an optional dependency, so a failed download no longer breaks the install — and it self-heals: the first gitnexus analyze --embeddings (or gitnexus embeddings install) fetches the stack through your npm registry config (mirrors/proxies apply, no NuGet) into ~/.gitnexus/embedding-runtime (override with GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_RUNTIME_DIR). The on-demand prefix needs Node with module.registerHooks (≥ 22.15 on 22.x, ≥ 23.5 on 23.x); on older Node, keep the stack in the install itself with ONNXRUNTIME_NODE_INSTALL=skip npm install -g gitnexus (works on every supported Node).

About tree-sitter-kotlin: like Dart/Proto/Swift, Kotlin is a vendored grammar (under gitnexus/vendor/tree-sitter-kotlin). Upstream ships source only (no prebuilt binaries), so GitNexus cross-builds the platform prebuilds itself (via the build-tree-sitter-prebuilds GitHub Actions workflow) and vendors them — the same uniform pipeline used for Dart, Proto, and Swift. node-gyp-build selects the right .node at require time, so no C/C++ toolchain is needed. If no prebuild matches your platform-arch, only Kotlin (.kt/.kts) parsing is unavailable; the rest of gitnexus is unaffected.

Deploy to Render

Deploy GitNexus in one click:

Deploy to Render

The Blueprint creates two services. gitnexus-server runs gitnexus serve as a private service: no public URL, reachable only over Render's private network, with a persistent disk for indexes and cloned repos. gitnexus-web is the public one. It serves the UI and reverse-proxies /api/* to the server, so the browser talks to a single origin.

At the Blueprint's defaults this runs about $35/month: $25 for the server's standard instance, $7 for the web service's starter instance, and $2.50 for the 10 GB disk. See Render's pricing for other plans.

The deploy generates an access token, and the UI asks for it on first use:

  1. Open the gitnexus-web service in your Render dashboard.
  2. Copy GITNEXUS_SERVE_AUTH_TOKEN from its Environment tab.
  3. Load the site and paste the token into the prompt (or the settings panel).

Every /api/* request carries that token as a header, and the proxy answers 401 without it. The browser keeps it in sessionStorage, so a new tab asks again. To rotate it, edit the environment variable and redeploy.

The proxy strips Origin before forwarding, so the server's CSRF guard does nothing for proxied traffic; it passes Origin-less requests through by design. The token is the only control on this deploy, not a second layer behind the guard. Anyone holding it can read every indexed repo. See SECURITY.md.

Indexing is memory-bound. If gitnexus-server runs out of memory on a large repo, raise its plan, which sets available RAM: standard is 2 GB, pro is 4 GB. Raise sizeGB only if the disk fills with clones and indexes.

Two Ways to Use GitNexus

CLI + MCP (recommended) Web UI
What Index repos locally, connect AI agents via MCP Visual graph explorer + AI chat in browser
For Daily development with Cursor, Claude Code, Antigravity, Codex, Windsurf, OpenCode Quick exploration, demos, one-off analysis
Scale Full repos, any size Limited by browser memory (~5k files), or unlimited via backend mode
Install npm install -g gitnexus No install — gitnexus.vercel.app
Storage LadybugDB native (fast, persistent) LadybugDB WASM (in-memory, per session)
Parsing Tree-sitter native bindings Tree-sitter WASM
Privacy Everything local, no network Everything in-browser, no server

Bridge mode: gitnexus serve connects the two — the web UI auto-detects the local server and can browse all your CLI-indexed repos without re-uploading or re-indexing.

Why a Knowledge Graph?

Tools like Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Cline, Roo Code, and Windsurf are powerful — but they don't truly know your codebase structure. So this happens:

  1. AI edits UserService.validate()
  2. Doesn't know 47 functions depend on its return type
  3. Breaking changes ship

Traditional Graph RAG gives the LLM raw graph edges and hopes it explores enough. GitNexus precomputes structure at index time — clustering, tracing, scoring — so tools return complete context in one call:

flowchart TB
    subgraph Traditional["Traditional Graph RAG"]
        direction TB
        U1["User: What depends on UserService?"]
        U1 --> LLM1["LLM receives raw graph"]
        LLM1 --> Q1["Query 1: Find callers"]
        Q1 --> Q2["Query 2: What files?"]
        Q2 --> Q3["Query 3: Filter tests?"]
        Q3 --> Q4["Query 4: High-risk?"]
        Q4 --> OUT1["Answer after 4+ queries"]
    end

    subgraph GN["GitNexus Smart Tools"]
        direction TB
        U2["User: What depends on UserService?"]
        U2 --> TOOL["impact UserService upstream"]
        TOOL --> PRECOMP["Pre-structured response:
        8 callers, 3 clusters, all 90%+ confidence"]
        PRECOMP --> OUT2["Complete answer, 1 query"]
    end

Core innovation: Precomputed Relational Intelligence

  • Reliability — the LLM can't miss context; it's already in the tool response
  • Token efficiency — no 10-query chains to understand one function
  • Model democratization — smaller LLMs work because the tools do the heavy lifting

What Your AI Agent Gets

17 MCP tools (15 per-repo + 2 group)

Tool What It Does
list_repos Discover all indexed repositories (paginated — limit/offset)
query Process-grouped hybrid search (BM25 + semantic + RRF)
context 360-degree symbol view — categorized refs, process participation
impact Blast radius analysis with depth grouping and confidence
trace Shortest directed path between two symbols (call + class-member edges)
detect_changes Git-diff impact — maps changed lines to affected processes
check Read-only structural checks against the indexed graph
rename Multi-file coordinated rename with graph + text search
cypher Raw Cypher graph queries
route_map API route map — which components fetch which endpoints, and handlers
tool_map MCP/RPC tool definitions — where they're defined and handled
shape_check Validate API response shapes against consumers' property accesses
api_impact Pre-change impact report for an API route handler
explain Explain persisted taint findings (source→sink flows, --pdg indexes)
pdg_query Query control/data dependence at statement level (--pdg indexes)
group_list List configured repository groups
group_sync Rebuild a group's Contract Registry and cross-repo links

Per-repo tools take an optional repo parameter (omit it when only one repo is indexed) and an optional branch for indexes pinned with gitnexus analyze --branch. Omitting branch queries the workspace index, which follows your checked-out working tree — switching branches and re-running gitnexus analyze updates it incrementally. explain and pdg_query need an index built with gitnexus analyze --pdg.

Resources for instant context

Resource Purpose
gitnexus://repos List all indexed repositories (read this first)
gitnexus://setup Setup and usage guidance for agents
gitnexus://repo/{name}/context Codebase stats, staleness check, and available tools
gitnexus://repo/{name}/clusters All functional clusters with cohesion scores
gitnexus://repo/{name}/cluster/{name} Cluster members and details
gitnexus://repo/{name}/processes All execution flows
gitnexus://repo/{name}/process/{name} Full process trace with steps
gitnexus://repo/{name}/schema Graph schema for Cypher queries
gitnexus://group/{name}/contracts A group's extracted contracts and cross-links
gitnexus://group/{name}/status Staleness of repos in a group

2 MCP prompts for guided workflows

Prompt What It Does
detect_impact Pre-commit change analysis — scope, affected processes, risk level
generate_map Architecture documentation from the knowledge graph with mermaid diagrams

Agent skills installed to .claude/skills/ and .agents/skills/ (if .agents/ exists) automatically

  • Exploring — navigate unfamiliar code using the knowledge graph
  • Debugging — trace bugs through call chains
  • Impact Analysis — analyze blast radius before changes
  • Refactoring — plan safe refactors using dependency mapping
  • Guide — GitNexus tool/resource/schema reference for the agent
  • CLI — run analyze/status/clean/wiki commands on request
  • PDG Query — statement-level control/data dependence queries (--pdg index)
  • Taint Analysis — source→sink data-flow findings (--pdg index)
  • Plan (/gitnexus-plan) — implementation-ready engineering plans backed by the graph and PDG slices
  • Work (/gitnexus-work) — executes a plan as impact-checked, detect_changes-gated atomic commits
  • Review (/gitnexus-review) — graph-backed review of a PR, branch, range, or local diff, with taint pass and per-domain expert lenses
  • LFG (/gitnexus-lfg) — the full pipeline: plan → user gate → work → review

Repo-specific skills — run gitnexus analyze --skills and GitNexus detects the functional areas of your codebase (via Leiden community detection) and generates each one as a direct project skill under .claude/skills/gitnexus-area-<name>/. Each skill describes a module's key files, entry points, execution flows, and cross-area connections, and is regenerated on each --skills run to stay current.

When a repo contains an .agents/ directory, the standard and generated skills are also mirrored to .agents/skills/ (e.g. .agents/skills/gitnexus-cli/, .agents/skills/gitnexus-area-<name>/) so agents that read repo-local .agents/skills/ (like Codex) stay in sync.

Editor Setup

gitnexus setup auto-detects your editors and writes the correct global MCP config. Run it once. To configure only selected integrations, pass --coding-agent/-c with a comma-separated list, e.g. gitnexus setup -c cursor,codex.

Editor MCP Skills Hooks (auto-augment) Support
Claude Code Yes Yes Yes (PreToolUse + PostToolUse) Full
Cursor Yes Yes Yes (postToolUse, manual install) Full
Antigravity (Google) Yes Yes Yes (AfterTool, Gemini CLI hooks schema)¹ Full
Codex Yes Yes Yes (PreToolUse + PostToolUse, Codex hooks) Full
OpenCode Yes Yes — MCP + Skills
CodeBuddy (Tencent) Yes Yes — MCP + Skills
Qoder (Alibaba) Yes Yes — MCP + Skills
Windsurf Yes — — MCP

Claude Code and Codex get the deepest integration: MCP tools + agent skills + PreToolUse hooks that enrich searches with graph context + PostToolUse hooks that detect a stale index after commits and prompt the agent to reindex.

¹ Antigravity hooks follow the Gemini CLI hooks reference (Antigravity 2.0 is the documented successor to Gemini CLI). Augmentation runs in AfterTool because BeforeTool has no context-injection channel in the Gemini contract — the agent sees graph context appended to the tool result via hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext. Stale-index hints land in the same channel after a successful git commit/merge/rebase/cherry-pick/pull. The schema may evolve if Antigravity-specific hook docs diverge from Gemini CLI's; the implementation will track those changes.

Manual MCP configuration (if you prefer not to run gitnexus setup)

Claude Code (full support — MCP + skills + hooks):

# macOS / Linux
claude mcp add gitnexus -- npx -y gitnexus@latest mcp

# Windows
claude mcp add gitnexus -- cmd /c npx -y gitnexus@latest mcp

Codex (full support — MCP + skills + hooks):

codex mcp add gitnexus -- npx -y gitnexus@latest mcp

Or via ~/.codex/config.toml (system scope) / .codex/config.toml (project scope):

[mcp_servers.gitnexus]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]

Codex hooks (PreToolUse graph enrichment + PostToolUse stale-index detection in ~/.codex/hooks.json, same schema as Claude Code) need the bundled adapter script, so they are installed by gitnexus setup -c codex rather than manually.

Alternatively, install everything as a Codex plugin (MCP + skills + hooks in one step):

codex plugin marketplace add abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus
# then inside Codex: /plugins → install "GitNexus"

Codex notes: SessionStart is intentionally not registered — Codex reads AGENTS.md natively, which already carries the GitNexus context block. Newly installed hooks need a one-time approval in Codex via /hooks before they run. Pick one install route (gitnexus setup -c codex or the plugin): plugin hooks load alongside ~/.codex/hooks.json, so installing both can fire duplicate hooks per tool call.

Cursor (~/.cursor/mcp.json — global, works for all projects):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitnexus": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Antigravity (Google) — ~/.gemini/antigravity/mcp_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitnexus": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

gitnexus setup also merges an AfterTool entry into ~/.gemini/settings.json (under the canonical Gemini CLI hooks schema) and installs skills to ~/.gemini/antigravity/skills/. Existing user hooks are preserved. The hook adapter's path is rewritten at install time, so run gitnexus setup rather than hand-editing.

OpenCode (~/.config/opencode/config.json):

{
  "mcp": {
    "gitnexus": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": ["gitnexus", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

CodeBuddy (Tencent) — priority chain, edit the first non-empty file that exists: ~/.codebuddy/.mcp.json (recommended) → ~/.codebuddy/mcp.json (deprecated) → ~/.codebuddy.json (legacy). CodeBuddy reads only the first existing file, so adding servers to a higher-priority file than the one currently in use would hide the servers below it. Create ~/.codebuddy/.mcp.json only if none exist:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitnexus": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Qoder (Alibaba) — ~/.qoder.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "gitnexus": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}
MCP read-only mode

Set GITNEXUS_MCP_READ_ONLY=1 before starting the MCP server to expose only the proven single-repository read surface. Raw cypher, rename and group tools, group routing, and group resources are omitted from discovery and rejected before backend dispatch. Tool descriptions and generated setup/context resources are scrubbed so they do not recommend unavailable routes.

The default is unchanged when the variable is unset or 0. Any other value fails server startup rather than silently weakening the policy.

MCP repository policy

Set GITNEXUS_MCP_ALLOWED_REPOS to a comma-separated list of canonical registry names or absolute indexed paths. Entries are trimmed, resolved against the registry, and deduplicated at startup. When exactly one repository is allowed it becomes the implicit default; when several are allowed, callers must select one unless GITNEXUS_MCP_DEFAULT_REPO is also set.

The default repository must resolve to an allowed repository. Invalid, ambiguous, blank, or mismatched configuration fails startup before stdio or HTTP begins serving. The allowlist applies to tools, aliases, discovery, resources, templates, implicit resolution, and embedded HTTP; hidden repository details are not included in selection errors. Setting only GITNEXUS_MCP_DEFAULT_REPO chooses a default without restricting explicit repository selections. An allowed repository whose name is duplicated in the registry must be configured by path, and its context resource is only served for the unique name form.

MCP response budgets

The query, context, and impact tools accept an optional positive-integer maxTokens argument. It bounds the complete formatted MCP response, including hints and error text, using a deterministic four-UTF-8-bytes-per-token estimate. When truncation is required, the response ends with … and remains valid UTF-8.

Set GITNEXUS_MCP_DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS to apply the same guardrail when callers do not send maxTokens. An explicit tool argument takes precedence. Leaving both unset preserves the existing response byte-for-byte; this is a transport guardrail, not semantic pagination or an exact model-specific tokenizer limit.

CLI Reference

Everyday commands:

gitnexus setup                   # Configure MCP for detected editors (one-time; -c to select)
gitnexus analyze [path]          # Index a repository (or update a stale index)
gitnexus mcp                     # Start MCP server (stdio) — serves all indexed repos
gitnexus serve                   # Start local HTTP server (multi-repo) for web UI connection
gitnexus eval-server             # Start lightweight evaluation HTTP tools (loopback by default)
gitnexus list                    # List all indexed repositories
gitnexus status                  # Show index status for current repo
gitnexus clean                   # Delete index for current repo
gitnexus wiki [path]             # Generate repository wiki from knowledge graph
gitnexus uninstall               # Preview removal of GitNexus MCP/skills/hooks (--force to apply)

You can also query the graph directly from the terminal — gitnexus query, context, impact, trace, cypher, detect-changes, and check mirror the MCP tools of the same names, and gitnexus doctor prints runtime platform capabilities.

Authenticated eval-server binding

gitnexus eval-server binds to 127.0.0.1 by default. Loopback bindings do not require authentication. Any non-loopback bind, including 0.0.0.0, a LAN address, or a hostname that resolves to a LAN IPv4 address, requires GITNEXUS_AUTH_TOKEN. Every endpoint then requires an exact Authorization: Bearer <token> header.

GITNEXUS_AUTH_TOKEN='replace-me' gitnexus eval-server --host 0.0.0.0

The token may be set in the shell, .env.local, or .env in the working directory. Precedence is shell > .env.local > .env. Only GITNEXUS_AUTH_TOKEN is read from those files; their other values are not added to the process environment. Keep token files uncommitted.

All analyze flags
gitnexus analyze --force         # Full rebuild: re-parse + graph rebuild + FTS rebuild
gitnexus analyze --repair-fts    # Fast path: rebuild/verify only FTS indexes on existing index data
gitnexus analyze --skills        # Generate repo-specific skill files from detected communities
gitnexus analyze --skip-embeddings  # Skip embedding generation (faster)
gitnexus analyze --embeddings [limit]  # Enable embedding generation (slower, better search)
gitnexus analyze --skip-agents-md   # Preserve custom AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md gitnexus section edits
gitnexus analyze --skip-skills      # Skip installing standard skill files under .claude/skills/ and .agents/skills/
gitnexus analyze --skip-git         # Index folders that are not Git repositories
gitnexus analyze --default-branch develop  # Branch used in the generated regression-compare example (base_ref)
gitnexus analyze --verbose       # Log skipped files when parsers are unavailable
gitnexus analyze --worker-timeout 60  # Increase worker idle timeout for slow parses
gitnexus analyze --workers <n>   # Parse worker pool size (>=1; default: cores-1, capped at 16,
                                 # auto-sized to the repo). 0 is rejected — there is no sequential mode.
gitnexus analyze --wal-checkpoint-threshold 67108864  # LadybugDB WAL auto-checkpoint threshold in bytes
                                 # (default 67108864 = 64 MiB; -1 keeps Ladybug stock ~16 MiB)

If analyze reports a worker parse timeout on a large or unusual repository, it keeps running and falls back safely. To give slow worker jobs more time, use --worker-timeout 60 or set GITNEXUS_WORKER_SUB_BATCH_TIMEOUT_MS=60000. For very large files, GITNEXUS_WORKER_SUB_BATCH_MAX_BYTES controls the worker job byte budget.

Embeddings node limit — gitnexus analyze --embeddings generates semantic search vectors with a default 50,000-node safety cap to protect memory on large repositories:

gitnexus analyze --embeddings          # default 50,000 node safety cap
gitnexus analyze --embeddings 0        # disable the cap entirely
gitnexus analyze --embeddings 100000   # custom cap

If embeddings are skipped on a large repository, the indexed graph likely exceeds the default cap — re-run with --embeddings 0 or a higher limit.

Repository groups (multi-repo / monorepo service tracking)
gitnexus group create <name>                           # Create a repository group
gitnexus group add <group> <groupPath> <registryName>  # Add a repo. <groupPath> is a hierarchy path
                                                       # (e.g. hr/hiring/backend); <registryName> is the
                                                       # repo's name from the registry (see `gitnexus list`)
gitnexus group remove <group> <groupPath>              # Remove a repo by its hierarchy path
gitnexus group list [name]                             # List groups, or show one group's config
gitnexus group sync <name>                             # Extract contracts and match across repos/services
gitnexus group contracts <name>                        # Inspect extracted contracts and cross-links
gitnexus group query <name> <q>                        # Search execution flows across all repos in a group
gitnexus group status <name>                           # Check staleness of repos in a group
gitnexus group impact <name> --target <symbol> --repo <groupPath>  # Cross-repo blast radius
Project config (.gitnexusrc)

Commit a .gitnexusrc JSON file at the repo root to preconfigure recurring analyze options per project, instead of re-passing the same flags every run. It is read from the resolved repo root (not .gitnexus/, which is gitignored index storage). CLI flags always override .gitnexusrc.

{
  // Default branch used in the generated regression-compare example (base_ref).
  // Use this so a project on `develop`/`master` doesn't get "main" rewritten
  // over its fix on every analyze. (Alias: "branch".)
  "defaultBranch": "develop",
  "skipContextFiles": true, // alias of skipAgentsMd: keep your own AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md
  "skipSkills": true, // don't install standard skill files under .claude/skills/ and .agents/skills/
  "embeddings": true, // generate embeddings by default
  "workerTimeout": 60,
}

A nested analyze block is also accepted (and overrides flat keys for the same option):

{ "analyze": { "defaultBranch": "develop", "skipSkills": true } }

Notes:

  • The default branch is resolved as: --default-branch > .gitnexusrc defaultBranch/branch > auto-detected origin/HEAD > main.
  • skipContextFiles / skipAiContext are aliases for skipAgentsMd — they skip the AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md block only. They do not imply skipSkills. indexOnly is the stronger option that skips all file injection.
  • Supported keys: defaultBranch (branch), skipAgentsMd (skipContextFiles, skipAiContext), skipSkills, indexOnly, stats/noStats, embeddings, dropEmbeddings, name, allowDuplicateName, maxFileSize, workerTimeout, walCheckpointThreshold, workers, embeddingThreads, embeddingBatchSize, embeddingSubBatchSize, embeddingDevice.
  • The file is JSON only. Unknown keys and invalid values fail fast with an actionable error before analysis starts.
Environment variables

Most analyze knobs are also CLI flags (--workers, --worker-timeout, --max-file-size, --verbose). Use the env-var form when you'd otherwise repeat the same flag every run, or when invoking GitNexus from a long-running host (MCP server, eval-server, CI shell) that already manages its own environment. CLI flags take precedence over env vars; env vars take precedence over built-in defaults.

Variable Default Effect Tune when…
GITNEXUS_WORKER_POOL_SIZE cores - 1, capped at 16 Parse worker pool size (must be ≥ 1). Equivalent to --workers <n>. The worker pool is the sole parse path — there is no sequential parser, so 0 is rejected with an actionable error (the pool self-heals via quarantine + respawn). Constrained containers (cgroup CPU limits) or CI runners with explicit quotas. To narrow down a worker crash set 1 for a single-worker pool — not 0.
GITNEXUS_PARSE_CHUNK_CONCURRENCY 2 Number of chunks whose file contents may be read into memory in parallel while the pool dispatches the current chunk. Worker dispatch itself stays serial. Repos large enough to chunk (multi-MB total source) where disk I/O is a measurable fraction of analyze wall-clock.
GITNEXUS_VERBOSE unset When 1, enables verbose ingestion logs (skipped-file warnings, per-chunk throughput, parse-cache stats). Equivalent to --verbose. Debugging an analyze that "completed" but seems to have missed files; tuning --workers / chunk concurrency against observable throughput.
GITNEXUS_AUTH_TOKEN unset Bearer token required when eval-server binds beyond loopback. May also be read from .env.local or .env; shell values take precedence. Exposing the evaluation HTTP tools to a container, VM, or LAN.
GITNEXUS_PROFILE_DEFERRED unset When 1, emits [deferred-profile] timing/progress logs for the post-chunk deferred resolution band (imports → heritage → buildHeritageMap → legacy call resolution). Implied by GITNEXUS_VERBOSE. Diagnosing analyze stalls in "Resolving calls (all chunks)" on large Java/Kotlin repos (issue #1741) without the full verbose ingestion noise.
GITNEXUS_PROFILE_DEFERRED_SLOW_MS 3000 (verbose) / 5000 Per-file threshold in ms above which processCallsFromExtracted emits a slow file … log line. Parsed via Number(): accepts integers (5000), scientific notation (2.5e3), decimals (.5), and hex (0x10). Non-finite or non-positive values fall back to the default. Hunting a few outlier files dominating the deferred call-resolution stage; lower to surface more, raise to focus only on the worst.
PROF_LBUG_LOAD unset When 1, emits one [lbug-load prof] summary line per loadGraphToLbug call breaking the graph-DB persistence wall into stages (csv-emit / copy-nodes / copy-rels / fallback / total) plus node & edge counts. Zero-cost when unset. Attributing large-repo analyze wall time across CSV generation vs. LadybugDB COPY (issue #2203) — the analyze "emit" timing is the scope-resolution bucket, not this DB-write path.
GITNEXUS_MAX_FILE_SIZE 512 (KB) Walker skip threshold in KB. Hard cap is 32768 (tree-sitter buffer ceiling). Equivalent to --max-file-size <kb>. Indexing repos with intentionally-large source files (generated parsers, vendored bundles) that should still be parsed.
GITNEXUS_WORKER_SUB_BATCH_TIMEOUT_MS 30000 Worker idle timeout in milliseconds before retry/fallback. Equivalent to --worker-timeout <seconds> × 1000. Slow-parsing files (large minified JS, deeply-nested TS types) that legitimately need more than 30s.
GITNEXUS_WORKER_READY_TIMEOUT_MS 5000 Startup budget in milliseconds for a parse worker to load its grammar bindings and report {type:'ready'}. Slots that miss it are treated as startup crashes. Slow or heavily loaded hosts where a full pool cold-starting concurrently needs more than 5s, and analyze aborts with "did not report ready within 5000ms".
GITNEXUS_FTS_STEMMER porter Stemmer used when rebuilding BM25/FTS indexes. Use none for CJK-heavy repositories, or a language stemmer such as german, french, or spanish for matching repository comments. Re-run gitnexus analyze --repair-fts after changing it. Keyword search quality is poor for non-English comments or identifiers under English stemming.
GITNEXUS_WAL_CHECKPOINT_THRESHOLD 67108864 (64 MiB) LadybugDB WAL auto-checkpoint threshold in bytes. Equivalent to --wal-checkpoint-threshold <bytes>. -1 keeps LadybugDB's stock threshold (~16 MiB). Larger thresholds reduce checkpoint frequency but increase the WAL size at rotation time — choose a smaller value on disk-constrained environments. You need a larger or smaller WAL auto-checkpoint threshold for your analyze workload.
GITNEXUS_LBUG_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE min(2 GiB, 80% RAM) LadybugDB buffer-pool ceiling in bytes for every GitNexus database (analyze, MCP server, serve, group bridges). 0 restores LadybugDB's native unbounded default of 80% of system RAM; invalid values warn and fall back to the default (#2557). During analyze the pool is right-sized to the graph, scaled on non-4 KiB-page hosts by the page-size granule ratio up to min(2 GiB × pageSize/4 KiB, 80% RAM) (#2631); this env var overrides all of that as an absolute value. A long-lived gitnexus mcp or a big incremental analyze uses too much memory, or a huge repo's working set genuinely needs a pool larger than 2 GiB.
GITNEXUS_LBUG_MAX_DB_SIZE 17179869184 (16 GiB) Maximum size in bytes of a single LadybugDB database file — an mmap/disk-address-space ceiling, not a memory limit (it does not constrain the buffer pool). Invalid values silently fall back to the default. Indexing a genuinely huge monorepo whose on-disk graph index approaches 16 GiB.
GITNEXUS_WORKER_SUB_BATCH_MAX_BYTES 8388608 (8 MB) Per-job byte budget the pool will send to a worker in one postMessage. Very large individual files; mostly diagnostic — bumping past 8 MB risks structured-clone memory pressure.
GITNEXUS_WORKER_MAX_RESPAWNS_PER_SLOT 3 Max replacement spawns per worker slot before the slot is dropped from the active rotation. Bounds respawn loops on a chronically-crashing slot. Hosts where a flaky worker should retry more (raise) or fail-fast (lower) before the slot is dropped.
GITNEXUS_WORKER_MAX_CUMULATIVE_TIMEOUT_MS 5 × subBatchTimeoutMs Total retry wall-time budget per job before quarantining. Combined with timeoutBackoffFactor, prevents exponentially-growing retries from stalling for hours. Slow files that legitimately need long total retry windows; lower to fail-fast on stalls.
GITNEXUS_WORKER_CONSECUTIVE_FAILURE_THRESHOLD max(3, poolSize) Per-slot consecutive deaths before the pool's circuit breaker trips. After tripping, every subsequent dispatch rejects until a fresh pool is created. Hosts where a SIGSEGV-prone native grammar should trip the breaker sooner; CI runners that should fail loudly.
GITNEXUS_WORKER_SHUTDOWN_DRAIN_MS 30000 Max wait at pool shutdown for a retired worker still inside native code. The worker is terminated at its next JS-safe point instead of mid-native-call (which aborts the whole process with Napi::Error, #2432); on expiry it is left running, unref'd, and terminated when it surfaces. Shutdown latency matters more than draining a wedged worker (lower), or a legitimately-slow native grammar needs longer to surface (raise).
GITNEXUS_CPP_CAPTURE_BUDGET_MS 20000 Per-file wall-clock budget for C++ capture extraction. On breach the file keeps the captures accumulated so far and logs a warning — the worker returns to JS instead of stalling in native-heavy loops (#2432). 0 expires immediately. Pathological generated C++ that still exceeds the budget after the indexed lookups; raise for completeness, lower to fail-fast.
GITNEXUS_CHUNK_BYTE_BUDGET 2097152 (2 MB) Chunk boundary used for cache-key composition and dispatch. Smaller = finer-grained cache hits but more dispatch overhead. Tuning incremental-analyze cache behavior on monorepos.
GITNEXUS_NO_GITIGNORE unset When set, skips .gitignore parsing. .gitnexusignore is still honored. Indexing a repo whose .gitignore excludes files you actually want indexed (e.g., generated code committed for cross-repo lookup).
GITNEXUS_SKIP_OPTIONAL_GRAMMARS unset When =1 strictly, skips the vendored grammar materialize for tree-sitter-dart, tree-sitter-proto, tree-sitter-swift, and tree-sitter-kotlin at install time (and the Dart/Proto source builds). Those four won't be parsed; the install still succeeds. Installing on a host without a C++ toolchain or where the vendored prebuilds don't match; willing to skip Dart/Proto/Swift/Kotlin parsing.
GITNEXUS_MCP_READ_ONLY unset Set to 1 to expose only proven single-repository read tools and resources; 0 disables the policy and any other value fails startup. The MCP server runs in an environment where graph mutation, raw Cypher, and cross-repository group routing must be unavailable.
GITNEXUS_MCP_ALLOWED_REPOS unset Comma-separated allowlist of canonical indexed repository names or absolute paths. Invalid, ambiguous, or blank entries fail startup. One MCP process must expose only a bounded subset of the repositories in the global registry.
GITNEXUS_MCP_DEFAULT_REPO unset Canonical indexed repository name or absolute path used when a tool or resource omits its repository. Must belong to the allowlist when one is set. Several repositories are available but unqualified MCP calls should resolve deterministically.
GITNEXUS_MCP_DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS unset Default positive-integer response budget for MCP query, context, and impact, estimated at four UTF-8 bytes per token. Explicit maxTokens wins. Long MCP responses consume too much model context and callers cannot reliably add a per-request budget.
GITNEXUS_PUBLIC_ORIGIN unset The single browser origin serve is reached through, added to the CORS allowlist and to the write-route origin guard. A wildcard bind (0.0.0.0) has no host identity, so without this the server's own UI is refused. Setting it currently refuses to start: serve has no authentication, requests carrying no Origin header already reach POST /api/analyze and DELETE /api/repo, and this is the setting that would admit browser writes on top of that. Matching rules for when the gate lifts: the hostname must match exactly, and so must the scheme. A value with no scheme (app.example.com) means https, since a bare host comes from platform service discovery and those terminate TLS; spell out http://app.example.com for plain HTTP. An explicit port must match; with no port, any port on that hostname is accepted. Anything that is not one reachable host (a list, *, a bare port number, a :0 port, a trailing dot) warns at startup and allows nothing. gitnexus serve runs behind a reverse proxy or on a wildcard bind, and the UI's index/delete requests return origin_not_allowed.
GITNEXUS_TRUST_PROXY loopback, linklocal, uniquelocal Express trust proxy value — which upstream hops may set X-Forwarded-*, and so what the per-IP rate limiter reads as the client IP. Set it to the exact number of proxies you control. Every hop past that is one more entry of the chain the caller gets to write. false/no/off (and a 0 hop count) trust no hop; a proxy list Express can compile (loopback, 10.0.0.0/8, 127.0.0.1) names them instead. true/yes/on is rejected: it reads the client-controlled leftmost X-Forwarded-For entry, so a spoofed chain earns a fresh rate-limit key per request, and express-rate-limit rejects it too (ERR_ERL_PERMISSIVE_TRUST_PROXY). Counts above 16 are rejected as well, as a sanity ceiling rather than a safety boundary. Any invalid value warns and falls back to the default. Bind non-loopback with this unset and serve warns: a load balancer outside the private ranges is untrusted, so every request keys to the balancer and the per-IP limit becomes one shared limit. serve sits behind a load balancer outside the private ranges (AWS ALB, Cloudflare, CGNAT), where every request otherwise collapses to the proxy hop and rate limiting goes global.
gitnexus uninstall

gitnexus uninstall reverses gitnexus setup — it removes the GitNexus MCP entries, hooks, and skill directories it added to each detected editor. Skill directories are identified by bundled gitnexus skill name (e.g. gitnexus-cli/), so if you customized files inside an installed skill directory, back them up first. It is a dry-run preview by default and prints the exact paths it would remove; pass --force to apply. Per-repo indexes (gitnexus clean --all) and the global npm package (npm uninstall -g gitnexus) are left for you to remove.

Publishing to understand-quickly (opt-in)

looptech-ai/understand-quickly is a public registry of code-knowledge graphs that lists gitnexus@1 as a first-class format. After registering your repo once (npx @understand-quickly/cli add or the wizard), gitnexus publish fires a single repository_dispatch event so the registry resyncs your entry on demand instead of waiting for the nightly job.

It is opt-in and a no-op without UNDERSTAND_QUICKLY_TOKEN — a fine-grained GitHub PAT with Repository dispatches: write on the registry repo. Nothing else happens; no graph file is uploaded. See the protocol spec for the full contract.

How It Works

GitNexus builds a complete knowledge graph of your codebase through a multi-phase indexing pipeline:

  1. Structure — walks the file tree and maps folder/file relationships
  2. Parsing — extracts functions, classes, methods, and interfaces using Tree-sitter ASTs
  3. Resolution — resolves imports, function calls, heritage, constructor inference, and self/this receiver types across files with language-aware logic
  4. Clustering — groups related symbols into functional communities
  5. Processes — traces execution flows from entry points through call chains
  6. Search — builds hybrid search indexes for fast retrieval

Supported Languages

Language Imports Named Bindings Exports Heritage Type Annotations Constructor Inference Config Frameworks Entry Points
TypeScript ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
JavaScript ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Python ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Java ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
Kotlin ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
C# ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Go ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Rust ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
PHP ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
Ruby ✓ — ✓ ✓ — ✓ — ✓ ✓
Swift — — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
C — — ✓ — ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
C++ — — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
Dart ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓

Imports — cross-file import resolution · Named Bindings — import { X as Y } / re-export tracking · Exports — public/exported symbol detection · Heritage — class inheritance, interfaces, mixins · Type Annotations — explicit type extraction for receiver resolution · Constructor Inference — infer receiver type from constructor calls (self/this resolution included for all languages) · Config — language toolchain config parsing (tsconfig, go.mod, etc.) · Frameworks — AST-based framework pattern detection · Entry Points — entry point scoring heuristics

Control flow (CFG, opt-in --pdg) — per-function control-flow graphs (BasicBlock nodes + CFG edges) feeding the PDG/taint substrate, currently TypeScript & JavaScript (#2081 M1); other languages planned. Off by default.

Multi-Repo Architecture

GitNexus uses a global registry so one MCP server can serve multiple indexed repos. No per-project MCP config needed — set it up once and it works everywhere.

Each gitnexus analyze stores the index in .gitnexus/ inside the repo (portable, gitignored) and registers a pointer in ~/.gitnexus/registry.json. When an AI agent starts, the MCP server reads the registry and can serve any indexed repo. LadybugDB connections are opened lazily on first query and evicted after 5 minutes of inactivity (max 5 concurrent). If only one repo is indexed, the repo parameter is optional on all tools — agents don't need to change anything.

Architecture diagram
flowchart TD
    subgraph CLI [CLI Commands]
        Setup["gitnexus setup"]
        Analyze["gitnexus analyze"]
        Clean["gitnexus clean"]
        List["gitnexus list"]
    end

    subgraph Registry ["~/.gitnexus/"]
        RegFile["registry.json"]
    end

    subgraph Repos [Project Repos]
        RepoA[".gitnexus/ in repo A"]
        RepoB[".gitnexus/ in repo B"]
    end

    subgraph MCP [MCP Server]
        Server["server.ts"]
        Backend["LocalBackend"]
        Pool["Connection Pool"]
        ConnA["LadybugDB conn A"]
        ConnB["LadybugDB conn B"]
    end

    Setup -->|"writes global MCP config"| CursorConfig["~/.cursor/mcp.json"]
    Analyze -->|"registers repo"| RegFile
    Analyze -->|"stores index"| RepoA
    Clean -->|"unregisters repo"| RegFile
    List -->|"reads"| RegFile
    Server -->|"reads registry"| RegFile
    Server --> Backend
    Backend --> Pool
    Pool -->|"lazy open"| ConnA
    Pool -->|"lazy open"| ConnB
    ConnA -->|"queries"| RepoA
    ConnB -->|"queries"| RepoB

Tool Examples

Impact Analysis

impact({target: "UserService", direction: "upstream", minConfidence: 0.8})

TARGET: Class UserService (src/services/user.ts)

UPSTREAM (what depends on this):
  Depth 1 (WILL BREAK):
    handleLogin [CALLS 90%] -> src/api/auth.ts:45
    handleRegister [CALLS 90%] -> src/api/auth.ts:78
    UserController [CALLS 85%] -> src/controllers/user.ts:12
  Depth 2 (LIKELY AFFECTED):
    authRouter [IMPORTS] -> src/routes/auth.ts

Options: maxDepth, minConfidence, relationTypes (CALLS, IMPORTS, EXTENDS, IMPLEMENTS), includeTests, limit (max symbols per depth, default 100), offset (pagination start per depth), summaryOnly (counts and risk only, omits symbol list)

Disambiguation — when several symbols share the target name, impact returns a ranked ambiguous candidate list instead of guessing. Narrow it with target_uid (exact, zero-ambiguity), file_path, or kind (Function, Class, Method, …). From the CLI these are --uid, --file, and --kind, matching gitnexus context:

gitnexus impact get_embeddings                       # → ambiguous: lists ranked candidates
gitnexus impact get_embeddings --file src/embed.py   # → resolves to the one in that file
gitnexus impact get_embeddings --uid "Function:src/embed.py:get_embeddings"  # exact
More examples: search · context · detect_changes · rename · Cypher
query({search_query: "authentication middleware"})

processes:
  - summary: "LoginFlow"
    priority: 0.042
    symbol_count: 4
    process_type: cross_community
    step_count: 7

process_symbols:
  - name: validateUser
    type: Function
    filePath: src/auth/validate.ts
    process_id: proc_login
    step_index: 2

definitions:
  - name: AuthConfig
    type: Interface
    filePath: src/types/auth.ts

Context (360-degree Symbol View)

context({name: "validateUser"})

symbol:
  uid: "Function:validateUser"
  kind: Function
  filePath: src/auth/validate.ts
  startLine: 15

incoming:
  calls: [handleLogin, handleRegister, UserController]
  imports: [authRouter]

outgoing:
  calls: [checkPassword, createSession]

processes:
  - name: LoginFlow (step 2/7)
  - name: RegistrationFlow (step 3/5)

Detect Changes (Pre-Commit)

detect_changes({scope: "all"})

summary:
  changed_count: 12
  affected_count: 3
  changed_files: 4
  risk_level: medium

changed_symbols: [validateUser, AuthService, ...]
affected_processes: [LoginFlow, RegistrationFlow, ...]

Rename (Multi-File)

rename({symbol_name: "validateUser", new_name: "verifyUser", dry_run: true})

status: success
files_affected: 5
total_edits: 8
graph_edits: 6     (high confidence)
text_search_edits: 2  (review carefully)
changes: [...]

Cypher Queries

-- Find what calls auth functions with high confidence
MATCH (c:Community {heuristicLabel: 'Authentication'})<-[:CodeRelation {type: 'MEMBER_OF'}]-(fn)
MATCH (caller)-[r:CodeRelation {type: 'CALLS'}]->(fn)
WHERE r.confidence > 0.8
RETURN caller.name, fn.name, r.confidence
ORDER BY r.confidence DESC

Wiki Generation

Generate LLM-powered documentation from your knowledge graph:

# Requires an LLM API key (OPENAI_API_KEY, etc.)
gitnexus wiki

# Use a custom model or provider (default model: minimax/minimax-m2.5)
gitnexus wiki --model gpt-4o
gitnexus wiki --base-url https://api.anthropic.com/v1

# Force full regeneration
gitnexus wiki --force

# Increase the timeout or retries for large codebases or slow LLM providers
gitnexus wiki --timeout <seconds>  # LLM request timeout in seconds (default: disabled)
gitnexus wiki --retries <n>        # Max LLM retry attempts per request (default: 3)

# Allow a specific LAN/self-hosted HTTP LLM host (HTTPS is preferred for remote endpoints)
gitnexus wiki --base-url http://llama-box.local:8080/v1 --allow-insecure-connection llama-box.local
# Or set a comma-separated host allowlist:
GITNEXUS_ALLOW_INSECURE_CONNECTION=llama-box.local,192.168.1.23

# Change the output language
gitnexus wiki --lang <lang>  # e.g. english, chinese, spanish, japanese

For safety, http:// LLM base URLs are allowed by default only for loopback hosts (localhost, 127.0.0.1, ::1). --allow-insecure-connection and GITNEXUS_ALLOW_INSECURE_CONNECTION accept exact hostnames or IP addresses only; do not include schemes, ports, paths, credentials, or wildcards.

The wiki generator reads the indexed graph structure, groups files into modules via LLM, generates per-module documentation pages, and creates an overview page — all with cross-references to the knowledge graph.

Web UI (browser-based)

A client-side graph explorer and AI chat — your code never leaves your machine.

Try it now: gitnexus.vercel.app — run npx gitnexus@latest serve locally and the page auto-connects to your local backend.

gitnexus_img

The web UI uses the same indexing pipeline as the CLI but runs entirely in WebAssembly (Tree-sitter WASM, LadybugDB WASM, in-browser embeddings). It's great for quick exploration but limited by browser memory for larger repos.

Local Backend Mode: run gitnexus serve and open the web UI — it auto-detects the server and shows all your indexed repos, with full AI chat support. No re-upload, no re-index. The agent's tools (Cypher queries, search, code navigation) route through the backend HTTP API automatically.

Run the frontend locally
git clone https://github.com/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus.git
cd gitnexus/gitnexus-shared && npm install && npm run build
cd ../gitnexus-web && npm install
npm run dev
# Then in another terminal, start the backend the frontend connects to:
npx gitnexus@latest serve

Docker

docker compose up -d

This starts the server on http://localhost:4747 and the web UI on http://localhost:4173. The UI auto-detects the server because the browser runs on the host and reaches the container via the mapped port.

The official setup ships two signed images, published identically to GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) and Docker Hub — same build, same digest, same Cosign signature:

Purpose GHCR (default in docker-compose.yaml) Docker Hub mirror
CLI / gitnexus serve backend (HTTP API on port 4747, MCP, indexer) ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus:latest akonlabs/gitnexus:latest
Static web UI (port 4173) ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus-web:latest akonlabs/gitnexus-web:latest

A named volume (gitnexus-data) persists the global registry, indexes, and cloned repos at /data/gitnexus inside the server container. To make repos on your host machine indexable, set WORKSPACE_DIR before bringing the stack up:

WORKSPACE_DIR=$HOME/code docker compose up -d
# Inside the server container the directory is mounted read-only at /workspace.
docker compose exec gitnexus-server gitnexus index /workspace/my-repo

Heads-up — image rename. Earlier releases published the web UI under ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus. That slug now hosts the CLI/server image and the UI moved to ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus-web. Previous tags remain pullable, but new versions are only published under the new slugs — update your docker run / compose files (or just adopt the bundled compose).

Direct docker run & env file
# Server
docker run --rm -d \
  --name gitnexus-server \
  -p 4747:4747 \
  -v gitnexus-data:/data/gitnexus \
  ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus:latest

# Web UI
docker run --rm -d \
  --name gitnexus-web \
  -p 4173:4173 \
  ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus-web:latest

Optional env file (override image tags, container names, ports, workspace dir):

cp .env.example .env
docker compose --env-file .env up -d

Files:

  • Dockerfile.web — builds gitnexus-shared and gitnexus-web, then serves the production frontend.
  • Dockerfile.cli — builds the CLI/server (with its native deps) and runs gitnexus serve --host 0.0.0.0.
  • docker-compose.yaml — starts both signed images side by side.
  • .env.example — overrides for image names, container names, ports, and the workspace mount.
Versioning & supply-chain protection (Cosign signatures, provenance, Kubernetes admission policy)

The Docker images are version-locked to the npm package:

  • Stable images are only published from vX.Y.Z git tags (via docker.yml triggered directly by the tag push), and the workflow refuses to build unless the tag exactly matches gitnexus/package.json's version. So ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus:1.6.2 (and its Docker Hub mirror akonlabs/gitnexus:1.6.2) is byte-for-byte the same release as npm install gitnexus@1.6.2 — no drift, no floating builds from main. Both registries receive the same digest from a single build step, so you can pull from either and the signature verifies identically.
  • Release-candidate images (e.g. :1.7.0-rc.1) are published alongside each RC npm release. They are built by publish.yml calling docker.yml as a reusable workflow after the RC tag is created and pushed.
  • :latest is auto-promoted only from non-prerelease tags by the Docker metadata action, so it always points at a real, npm-published version.

Both images are signed with Cosign keyless signing using the workflow's GitHub OIDC identity, and shipped with build provenance and SBOM attestations. This is your protection against supply-chain attacks: even if an attacker republishes a same-named image elsewhere (or somehow pushes to a typo-squatted registry), they cannot forge a Cosign signature tied to abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus's docker.yml. Always verify before pulling into sensitive environments.

Stable releases — signed from the v* tag ref:

cosign verify ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus:1.6.2 \
  --certificate-identity-regexp '^https://github\.com/abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus/\.github/workflows/docker\.yml@refs/tags/v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9.]+)?$' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com

# Same signature verifies the Docker Hub mirror (identical digest):
cosign verify docker.io/akonlabs/gitnexus:1.6.2 \
  --certificate-identity-regexp '^https://github\.com/abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus/\.github/workflows/docker\.yml@refs/tags/v[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+(-[a-zA-Z0-9.]+)?$' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com

The regex pins the certificate identity to this repo's docker.yml workflow run from a v* tag — rejecting unsigned images, images signed by other workflows, and images signed from unprotected refs. It is identical for both registries because both sets of tags were signed at the same digest in one workflow run.

Release candidates — signed from refs/heads/main (the caller's ref when publish.yml invokes docker.yml as a reusable workflow):

cosign verify ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus:1.7.0-rc.1 \
  --certificate-identity 'https://github.com/abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus/.github/workflows/docker.yml@refs/heads/main' \
  --certificate-oidc-issuer https://token.actions.githubusercontent.com

You can also inspect the build provenance and SBOM:

cosign download attestation ghcr.io/abhigyanpatwari/gitnexus:1.6.2 \
  --predicate-type https://slsa.dev/provenance/v1

Kubernetes: enforce signatures at admission. Ship the bundled ClusterImagePolicy so the Sigstore policy-controller rejects any GitNexus pod whose image is not signed by this repo's docker.yml running from a vX.Y.Z tag — the same identity the cosign verify snippet above pins.

# 1. Install the controller (one-time, cluster-wide)
helm repo add sigstore https://sigstore.github.io/helm-charts && helm repo update
helm install policy-controller -n cosign-system --create-namespace \
  sigstore/policy-controller

# 2. Opt your namespace in
kubectl label namespace <your-ns> policy.sigstore.dev/include=true

# 3. Apply the policy
kubectl apply -f deploy/kubernetes/cluster-image-policy.yaml

After this, attempting to deploy an unsigned image — or one signed by anything other than abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus's docker.yml at a v* tag — fails the admission webhook before a pod is ever created. This turns the verifiable signature into an enforced policy, which is the supply-chain control most clusters actually need.

Enterprise

GitNexus is available as an enterprise offering — fully managed SaaS or self-hosted deployment. Commercial use of the OSS version is also available with proper licensing.

Enterprise includes:

  • PR Review — automated blast radius analysis on pull requests
  • Auto-updating Code Wiki — always up-to-date documentation (Code Wiki is also available in OSS)
  • Auto-reindexing — knowledge graph stays fresh automatically
  • Multi-repo support — unified graph across repositories
  • OCaml support — additional language coverage
  • Priority feature/language support — request new languages or features

Upcoming: auto regression forensics · end-to-end test generation

👉 Learn more at akonlabs.com — for commercial licensing or enterprise inquiries, ping us on Discord or email founders@akonlabs.com

Community Integrations

Built by the community — not officially maintained, but worth checking out.

Project Author Description
pi-gitnexus @tintinweb GitNexus plugin for pi — pi install npm:pi-gitnexus
gitnexus-stable-ops @ShunsukeHayashi Stable ops & deployment workflows (Miyabi ecosystem)
KiloCode MCP workflow @oktanishq Guide to connect GitNexus MCP to Kilo Code and verify tools.

Have a project built on GitNexus? Open a PR to add it here!

Roadmap

Actively building:

  • LLM Cluster Enrichment — semantic cluster names via LLM API
  • AST Decorator Detection — parse @Controller, @Get, etc.
  • Incremental Indexing — only re-index changed files

Recently completed:

  • Constructor-Inferred Type Resolution, self/this Receiver Mapping
  • Wiki Generation, Multi-File Rename, Git-Diff Impact Analysis
  • Process-Grouped Search, 360-Degree Context, Claude Code Hooks
  • Multi-Repo MCP, Zero-Config Setup, 14 Language Support
  • Community Detection, Process Detection, Confidence Scoring
  • Hybrid Search, Vector Index

Development

  • ARCHITECTURE.md — packages, index → graph → MCP flow, where to change code
  • RUNBOOK.md — analyze, embeddings, stale index, MCP recovery, CI snippets
  • GUARDRAILS.md — safety rules and operational "Signs" for contributors and agents
  • CONTRIBUTING.md — license, setup, commits, and pull requests
  • TESTING.md — test commands for gitnexus and gitnexus-web

Tech Stack

Layer CLI Web
Runtime Node.js (native) Browser (WASM)
Parsing Tree-sitter native bindings Tree-sitter WASM
Database LadybugDB native LadybugDB WASM
Embeddings HuggingFace transformers.js (GPU/CPU) transformers.js (WebGPU/WASM)
Search BM25 + semantic + RRF BM25 + semantic + RRF
Agent Interface MCP (stdio) LangChain ReAct agent
Visualization — Sigma.js + Graphology (WebGL)
Frontend — React 18, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind v4
Clustering Graphology Graphology
Concurrency Worker threads + async Web Workers + Comlink

Security & Privacy

  • CLI: everything runs locally on your machine. No network calls. Index stored in .gitnexus/ (gitignored). Global registry at ~/.gitnexus/ stores only paths and metadata.
  • Web: everything runs in your browser. No code uploaded to any server. API keys stored in localStorage only.
  • Open source — audit the code yourself.

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Acknowledgments