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* test(resolution): pin generic-typed field receivers across languages (#2833) A field whose declared type carries a type argument (`repo: Repo<User>`) emits zero CALLS edges — not a truncated chain, not an edge to the interface declaration, nothing. This adds the cross-language matrix that measures it, modelled on the #2807 inferred-field matrix: every language runs the same two calls, one through a generic-typed field and one through a non-generic control field, and each language is compared against its OWN control row rather than an absolute edge count. Measured state, pinned here as `known-gap` so the file is green on main and flipping a row is a visible edit: affected TypeScript, C#, C++, Python unaffected Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, Swift, Dart The unaffected six erase type arguments at interpret time (Java's `stripGeneric`, F41 #1928; Swift likewise). TypeScript, C# and Python instead run a container ALLOW-LIST that returns the type ARGUMENT, so a user-defined `Repo<User>` survives verbatim into a lookup that binds nothing. The `ts-local-vs-field` case is the bug in one file: `viaLocal` and `viaParam` both resolve for the identical type, and only `viaField` loses every edge — a bare name reaches Case 4 and its generic-aware lookup, a dotted field receiver does not. Negative controls pin what erasure must NOT do: an unbounded type parameter denotes no declaration, and a C++ explicit specialization is a different class from its primary template. The `Box2<T>` row pins a PRE-EXISTING false edge (a workspace class named `T`) so it cannot later be mistaken for fallout from this work. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * refactor(resolution): move resolveClassBindingForName to the shared walkers (#2833) Pure relocation, no behaviour change: the generic-aware class lookup moves from `passes/receiver-bound-calls.ts` to `scope/walkers.ts`, beside the bare `findClassBindingInScope` it wraps. Its two existing callers — `classifyReceiverOrigin` and Case 4 — import it from the new home and are otherwise untouched. The move is required rather than cosmetic: `receiver-bound-calls.ts` already imports from `compound-receiver.ts`, so having the compound receiver call into the pass would close an import cycle. `walkers.ts` is the shared floor both already depend on. Verified behaviour-neutral: the #2833 matrix is 44/44 identical before and after, across all fifteen fixtures. detect_changes attributes `resolveInheritanceBaseInScope`, `resolveQualifiedInheritanceBase` and `EMPTY_BINDINGS` to this commit; those are line-shift artifacts of inserting a function above them, and their bodies are byte-identical. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(resolution): type generic field receivers through the generic-aware lookup (#2833) A field receiver is spelled `this.repo` — dotted — so it types through the receiver-chain fold and the text cascade, both of which reach `findClassBindingInScope`. That function has no notion of type arguments, so a field declared `Repo<User>` resolved to nothing and the call site emitted NO edge at all: not the interface declaration, not the implementation fan-out, nothing. A local or parameter of the identical type is a bare name, reaches Case 4 and its generic-aware `resolveClassBindingForName`, and resolved fine. The bug was the asymmetry, not the generics. Three receiver-typing lookups now call the generic-aware helper instead: `typeOfMemberOnClass`'s primary and module-hoist branches, and the cascade's bare-identifier type-binding read. Every other one of the 38 `findClassBindingInScope` call sites is untouched — its own docstring records that widening it globally suppresses the `?? otherResolver(...)` fallbacks two dozen callers rely on, which would retarget inheritance edges, and impact rates it CRITICAL with 12 direct dependents. Order matters and is preserved: the helper tries the exact name, then an arity- and token-exact match against `def.templateArguments`, and only then falls back to the base name. Erasing first would collapse a C++ explicit specialization onto its primary template — `Vec<bool>` really is a different class. A bare type parameter carries no type arguments, so it never enters the generic branch and cannot be erased into a class that happens to share its name. Measured: TypeScript and C# generic-typed fields now emit exactly what their non-generic control rows emit, primary plus interface-dispatch fan-out. Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, Swift and Dart are byte-identical. Both type-parameter negative controls are unchanged. C++ and Python are still open and stay pinned as known-gaps — they fail for different reasons and get their own commits. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(cpp,python): bind generic-typed member fields so their calls resolve (#2833) Completes #2833 for the two languages the shared resolution change could not reach. Each failed for its own reason, and both were found by measurement rather than assumed. C++ — a CAPTURE gap, not a resolution one. All three `field_declaration` type-binding rules required `type: (type_identifier)`, so a member declared `Repo<User> repo;` is a `template_type` and matched none of them: the field got no type binding at all, and every call through it lost its edge in both the bare and `this->` spellings. A LOCAL of the identical type resolved the whole time, because the local declaration rules gained their `template_type` variant long ago. Three mirrored rules close it, one per declarator shape (plain, pointer, reference). Written as separate patterns rather than one alternation: a node-type alternation in a field position is a tree-sitter 0.21 hazard this repo has been bitten by before. Python — the bracket spelling never entered the generic branch. Its `stripGeneric` is a container allow-list over `[...]` that returns the type ARGUMENT (`list[User]` to `User`), so a user-defined `Repo[User]` matched nothing and survived verbatim, and the shared lookup's generic branch is gated on `<`. It now reduces a subscripted type neither allow-list claims to its base name — the same rule Java and Swift already apply to `<...>`. Deliberately the LAST resort: a container must reach its own rule first, or `list[User]` would type the receiver as the container and retarget every call in a for-loop chain. The as-written spelling survives on `TypeRef.declaredSpelling`, which is what the fold's index step reads. Both are parse-time and land in the cached ParsedFile, so SCHEMA_BUMP goes 45 -> 46 with its pin test. Verified free against origin/main; the ledger in that file records three prior EXACT clashes, so re-check again immediately before merge. The matrix now covers the spellings real code writes, all measured: a nullable generic, a bounded wildcard, a raw type, a nested generic and a multi-argument one. None needed work beyond the shared lookup, which is the evidence that base-name erasure is the right primitive. The C++ specialization control now asserts what it was written for: `Vec<bool>.save` and `Vec.save` are DIFFERENT target ids, so the arity/token match still wins over erasure. scope-capture is byte-identical for cpp and c, so no rebaseline — the bench corpus contains no generic-typed member field, which is worth its own coverage issue. Two pre-existing gaps were measured and are deliberately NOT fixed here, because in both cases the language's own non-generic CONTROL row fails identically: C++ `this->field.m()` emits nothing, and JavaScript/PHP docblock-declared field types bind nothing at all. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(python): do not reduce containers or typing special forms to a base name (#2833) Review finding on this branch's own Python change, caught by probing the interpreter directly rather than by reading it. The base-name reduction was reached by FALLTHROUGH: "neither container rule matched" was treated as "not a container". It is not, and two measured shapes proved it: dict[str, list[User]] -> dict (was: the annotation, intact) Dict[str, Repo[User]] -> Dict Callable[[int], User] -> Callable Literal["a"] -> Literal Union[A, B] -> Union tuple[int, ...] -> tuple The dict rule's value group cannot span a nested `]`, so a nested value declines and falls through — and the dict rule's own comment says that shape is deliberately "left for a downstream strip pass". Collapsing it to `dict` destroyed the value type instead. The typing SPECIAL FORMS are worse: `Callable`, `Literal`, `Annotated` and `Union` are not classes, and reducing them to a bare name binds any workspace class that happens to share it — a fabricated edge, which is strictly worse than the missing edge #2833 set out to fix, and those names are ordinary enough for a real codebase to declare. Reduction is now guarded by an explicit deny set covering the containers the two allow-lists already own and the typing special forms. Everything named there keeps its as-written text and resolves exactly as it did before #2833. `arr[0]` also reduces to `arr` in isolation, but that is unreachable and is now documented as such: every Python `@type-binding.type` capture is a `(type)`, `(identifier)`, `(attribute)` or `(dotted_name)` node, so a subscripted VALUE expression never reaches the interpreter. Pinned by a new unit test that asserts all four groups — user generic reduces, container reduces to its ELEMENT, declined container shape stays intact, special form untouched. Reverting the deny set fails three of its five cases. Also corrects `resolveClassBindingForName`'s docstring, which this branch had made false: it claimed only `classifyReceiverOrigin` passes the decoration stripper, while the three receiver-typing lookups in compound-receiver.ts now pass it too. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(resolution): rank base-name candidates lexically and refuse arg-pinned defs (#2833) Review of #2855 found that this PR turned a MISSING C++ edge into a CONFIDENTLY WRONG one — the direction this subsystem calls unrecoverable. `resolveClassBindingForName` ended with an unguarded base-name fallback that returned the first same-named class the scope chain reached. A C++ primary template carries `templateArguments === undefined`, so it can never satisfy the exact-args branch, and every non-specialized instantiation fell through to that fallback. Measured through the real pipeline: with the primary forward-declared and the specialization defined first, `Vec<int> vi; vi.save()` emitted `Vec<bool>::save`. Declaring the primary first gave the correct target — selection was SOURCE-ORDER DEPENDENT. Two more triggers behaved the same way: a partial specialization (`Vec<int*>` against `Vec<T*>`), and lexical shadowing between a global `Box<bool>` and a namespaced `N::Box<bool>`. Two changes, neither of which is any of the three remediations the review proposed — each was rejected on measured evidence: - Exact-argument matching is now LEXICAL-FIRST. Candidates come from the scope chain, and the workspace-wide qualified-name bucket is consulted only when the chain produced no exact match, so cross-file specializations still bind. - The base-name route refuses a definition that pinned its own template arguments: if the fallback's answer carries `templateArguments`, the visible candidates are re-decided with those removed — exactly one, or decline. Why not the filed options. "If specializations exist and none matches exactly, return undefined" deletes a green committed row (`neg-cpp-specialization/runInt` legitimately resolves to the primary). "Resolve all defs for the base name, return only on exactly one" deletes a working edge for C# `partial class Repo<T>` split across files — two unspecialized defs under one name is legitimate, and `QualifiedNameIndex`'s own docstring names that case. Preferring the primary alone fixes nothing about shadowing, which is a ranking bug. The guard is expressed as `carriesOwnTemplateArguments`, not as "specialization", so shared pipeline code still names no language (AGENTS.md R6). It can only fire where a declared name carries concrete arguments — measured `undefined` for `class Repo<T>` in TypeScript and C# and for a C++ primary template — so the blast radius is bounded to C++-style specializations. Partial-specialization SELECTION is deliberately not implemented: choosing `Vec<T*>` for `Vec<int*>` needs template-argument deduction, which is a semantics expansion and cannot live in language-neutral shared code. The source-order dependence is what is fixed; the answer is now deterministically the primary. Also in this commit: dropped an unreachable `?? []` (QualifiedNameIndex returns a frozen empty array on miss by contract) whose comment was wrong on both clauses; made the docstring true about argument ERASURE being what widens what binds, rather than only the decoration stripper; and corrected a stale pointer that still placed `resolveClassBindingForName` in `receiver-bound-calls`. `findClassBindingInScope` itself is untouched — 38 call sites, CRITICAL. Verified: matrix 56/56, cpp.test.ts 334, unit scope-resolution 1505. Mutation proof: reverting this file fails the three trigger cases and passes the non-regression cases; restoring it passes all five. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(python): close the deny-set drift axis by case-folding, not by vigilance (#2833) Review of #2855 found `NOT_A_USER_GENERIC` was a closed list over an open universe: four review lanes each escaped it with a DIFFERENT set of names. `Deque` was the sharpest — its lowercase twin `deque` was already listed, so the omission was an internal inconsistency rather than a judgement call, and with a workspace `class Deque` present `self.dq: Deque[User]` fabricated a `Deque.appendleft` edge. The structural cause is PEP 585: nearly every container has two spellings differing only in case (`deque`/`typing.Deque`, `frozenset`/`FrozenSet`). Exact matching forced every pair to be listed twice, so any half-pair was a silent escape. The deny lookup is now CASE-FOLDED, which closes that axis by construction — `Deque` becomes impossible rather than remembered. `SINGLE_ARG_CONTAINERS` and `MAPPING_CONTAINERS` are now the single source of truth: they build the two container regexes (verified byte-identical `.source` and `.flags`, so zero behaviour change) and feed the property test. The deny set is re-scoped to a closed, auditable universe — the documented Python stdlib type-system surface — and grew 39 -> 65 concepts: the `collections.abc` views, `contextlib` managers, `re.Pattern`/`Match`, the `IO` family, ordinary-named stdlib generics (`Queue`, `Task`, `Future`, `PathLike`), the remaining typing special forms, and the generic machinery (`Generic`, `Protocol`, `TypeVar`...). Third-party generics (`Mapped`, `QuerySet`, `Model`) are deliberately NOT added and are pinned as a decision: that universe is open, enumerating it only chases the last escape, and declining `Model` would cost real edges in the many projects that declare one. The review's suggested property test — derive the names from the `single`/`dict` regex sources — would NOT have caught `Deque`: `deque` appears in neither regex, only in the deny set. Both properties are implemented, since they catch different drift. The unit test was also TAUTOLOGICAL: it asserted members OF the deny set, so it structurally could not detect an omission. It now asserts case-fold closure and PEP 585 alias coverage, and the capture fixture drops its `as unknown as` cast for the fully-typed helper pattern the sibling `java-interpret.test.ts` already uses. Still at interpret time, so no further SCHEMA_BUMP (already 45 -> 46). Proving the base is a class the FILE can see — the real fix for the remaining exposure, since `findClassBindingInScope` binds any name with exactly one workspace def regardless of scope or imports — is a follow-up, not reachable from this file. Mutation proof: restoring HEAD's deny-set contents and exact-match lookup fails four assertions including the `Deque` pair, with the pre-existing guard rows still passing; restoring gives 125/125. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(cpp): capture qualified generic member fields, and make the bench gate see them (#2833) Review of #2855 found that the three `field_declaration` rules this PR added only matched a DIRECT `template_type`, so the common real-world spelling still bound nothing: `std::vector<Item> items;`, `ns::Repo<User> r;` and `std::unique_ptr<Repo> p;` parse as a `qualified_identifier` WRAPPING a `template_type`. "C++ fixed" was overstated. Six new patterns — three declarator shapes (plain, pointer, reference) by two qualifier depths — written as separate patterns rather than one alternation, keeping the tree-sitter 0.21 field-position discipline the existing rules follow. The design choice was measured, not assumed. Codex suggested preserving the full qualified spelling and normalizing `::`; preserving resolves NOTHING, because `findClassBindingInScope`'s dotted-tail fallback splits on `.` while C++ writes `::`, and `ns::Repo` is not an index key either (C++ emits no `@declaration.qualified_name`). Measured: `ns::Repo<User>` resolves to nothing, `ns.Repo<User>` resolves to `Repo`. Since a tree-sitter capture is a NODE and not synthesized text, the only lever is which node to capture — so `@type-binding.type` goes on the INNER `template_type`, dropping the qualifier and landing on the same single-match-or-decline path the bare spelling already takes. Qualifier depth 3+ (`a:🅱️:c::Repo<User>`) remains uncaptured. Stated as a limit and pinned by a test row, not claimed as fixed. The bench blindness the review identified is also closed. The `scope-capture` C++ corpus contained ZERO template-typed member fields — confirmed a fourth way by applying six demonstrably behaviour-changing patterns and getting a byte-identical fingerprint. The corpus now carries generic and qualified-generic members, and the gate is load bearing for the first time: three states that all hashed to 856d02f3 before now differ (pre-#2833 0e7cbda7, +this PR's 3 rules de07d8b5, +these 6 rules bd47c82d). Rebaselined for cpp only; c is unchanged. Histogram diff: only 5 tags move with the fields, each by exactly +40 (20 entities x 2), and every `@reference.*` count is unchanged. Over-match is preserved: 20 shapes still produce no field capture, including the 8 original method/pointer/reference/function-pointer/ using/typedef/friend/operator forms plus their `std::`- and `a:🅱️:`-qualified variants. Not fixed here, deliberately: NON-generic qualified fields (`ns::Address addr;`, `std::string name;`) still capture nothing. Closing that needs six more patterns and would newly bind every `std::string`/`std::mutex` member repo-wide, changing edges far outside #2833. Separate issue. The template-template-parameter hazard the review filed against these rules is NOT capture-side: a tree-sitter query has no scope knowledge, so it cannot know `Map` is bound by the enclosing `template <...>` header, and the PRE-EXISTING `type: (type_identifier)` rule already captures a bare `T item;` and erases it the same way. It is handled by the lexical ranking in `walkers.ts` in this series. Mutation proof: reverting this file fails 9 of 32 assertions (all eight qualified spellings return no capture) while every over-match negative still passes; restoring gives ALL PASS. Bench `--check` passes for all 15 languages. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * test(resolution): pin specialization order, shadowing and the untested spellings (#2833) Grows the generic-field matrix 56 -> 114 tests, closing every coverage gap the #2855 review named and turning the fix-agents' scratch evidence into permanent rows. The rows that discriminate against the resolver fix (they fail if `walkers.ts` is reverted): - C++ specialization must not depend on DECLARATION ORDER: the forward-declared-primary/specialization-first arrangement must land on the primary, same as the mirror arrangement. Plus a cross-case property asserting the two independently built fixtures agree. - Partial specialization is deterministic in both orders. The note says explicitly that selecting `Vec<T*>` would need argument deduction and that flipping this row later is a deliberate expansion, not a regression fix. - Lexical shadowing: the namespace-local `N::Box<bool>` wins for a field inside `N`, and the global specialization wins at global scope. The NON-REGRESSION rows are load-bearing — they are why two of the three proposed remediations were rejected: cross-file C++ specialization binding, and C# `partial class Repo<T>` split across two files with the field in a third (two legitimate unspecialized defs under one name). Coverage the review found missing: C++ pointer and reference generic fields (two of this PR's three original rules had ZERO coverage); all six qualified patterns plus the depth-3 boundary pinned as empty; TS/C# multi-arg container collision; an anti-vacuity sibling for `neg-bounded-type-parameter`; Swift/Dart rows restructured so the ANNOTATION is the only possible source (the old rows gave the field an initializer of the same generic type and could not tell which resolved); and cross-file, inheritance/MRO, import-alias, static-member and the TypeScript module-hoist branch. Six things were measured and pinned AS MEASURED rather than asserted as wishes, each flagged in its row note: a static/class-level member emits nothing for generic AND non-generic alike (a static gap, not a generics one); a cross-file C++ primary template does not bind while the cross-file specialization does; `std::unique_ptr<Payload>` types to `unique_ptr` rather than `Payload` (smart-pointer transparency is not applied on the qualified path); two same-named C++ specializations in one file collapse to one node id; and the container-name collision (`Map<string, User>` binding a workspace `class Map`) is recorded as INTENDED, since the annotation does name that class. The `new Set(...)` dedup was kept rather than narrowed: a per-case surplus-edge sweep measured ZERO duplicate edges anywhere in this file, Swift included, so the quirk that justified a blanket dedup does not reproduce. The sweep now pins zero surplus per case, so a real double-emit fails instead of being absorbed. The file is deliberately NOT split: four assertions compare cases against each other, cost is linear in cases, and the 1,800,000 ms `beforeAll` is kept because the same run measured 271-428 s depending on host load — a tighter bound converts contention into a red suite. The reasoning is recorded in the file header. Also corrects the SCHEMA_BUMP pin-test title, which still said (#2766). Mutation proof: reverting `walkers.ts` fails exactly the five order and shadowing assertions and passes the other 109; restoring gives 114/114. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * feat(resolution): capture declared type parameters so a type variable is not a class (#2833) Three review findings were blocked on one missing fact. `templateArguments` records the arguments a declaration was written AGAINST (`struct Vec<bool>`); nothing recorded the parameter list a declaration DECLARES (`template <class T>`, `class Box<T extends Repo>`). So the resolver could not tell a type variable from a class, and: - `class Box2<T> { t: T }` beside a workspace `class T` emitted a FALSE edge `run2 -> T.foo`. `T` carries no type arguments, so it never entered the generic branch — the plain lookup simply bound a same-named class. The lexical grounding added elsewhere in this series cannot help, because `export class T` IS lexically bound. - `class Box<T extends Repo> { t: T }` resolved to nothing: no recorded bound to resolve through. - A full specialization `template<> struct Vec<T*>` and a partial `template<class T> struct Vec<T*>` were byte-identical (`['T*']`). `SymbolDefinition.typeParameters` now records `{ name, bound? }` in declaration order (substitution is positional). `bound` is kept verbatim and un-split, so `Repo & Closeable` stays whole; ABSENT means UNKNOWN, never "unbounded", which is what keeps unconverted languages behaving exactly as before. Transport is the raw parameter-list node via `@declaration.type-parameters`, read by a language-neutral parser that recognizes TOKENS, not languages: `extends`/`:` introduce a bound, the name is the trailing identifier, so `class T`, `typename T`, `in T`, `out T`, `reified T` and `class... Ts` are one rule. Populated for TypeScript, C++, Java, Kotlin, C# and Rust. JavaScript, C, COBOL, PHP and Ruby have no declared type parameters to capture; Go and Python spell them with SQUARE brackets, which this parser deliberately rejects as ambiguous against subscript and array spellings (Go already has a working main-thread sidecar in this series); Dart and Swift are straightforward follow-ups. Two latent hazards found and closed on the way: - The new capture was not in `KNOWN_SUB_TAGS`, so it could out-span its own declaration and become the anchor — silently DROPPING the whole class def. - A templated C++ struct matches both the standalone and `template_declaration` patterns, minting two defs under one id, and only one twin could see the parameter list. `buildDefIndex` is first-write-wins, so MATCH ORDER decided whether `Vec` remembered `T`. A narrow duplicate-declaration backfill gives both twins the list. Also fixed by its own test: a Rust lifetime `'a` parsed as a parameter named `a`, which would have shadowed a real class. Parse-time output lands in the cached ParsedFile, so SCHEMA_BUMP goes 46 -> 47. Re-checked against origin/main at write time: main is on 45; 46 was taken by this same branch, and a warm cache stamped 46 carries ParsedFiles with no `typeParameters` at all. The csharp and rust capture goldens were regenerated with the tests' own documented `UPDATE_GOLDEN=1`; only digests moved, no captureGroups. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(resolution): ground erased base names, and stop a class name from being enough (#2833) The review's central risk was that this PR converts MISSING edges into CONFIDENTLY WRONG ones. Base-name erasure (`Repo<User>` -> `Repo`, `Repo[User]` -> `Repo`) bound through a workspace-wide qualified-name fallback that consults NO scope, NO import and NO module — it bound any name with exactly one workspace def. That is why a Python `Mapped[User]` could bind an unrelated `class Mapped`, and why the language deny lists were papering over an open universe. `resolveErasedBaseName` now admits an erased base on one of four grounds, strongest first: the scope chain binds it; the declaration is in the SAME FILE; the index proves the name is a template family; or the file binds no cross-file class at all, so its silence is no evidence. The last ground fails toward permissive on purpose — every way it can be wrong costs a wrong edge that already existed, never a working one. Two measurements drove that design and refuted the simpler rule. A C++ `#include` materializes NO binding whatever, and C# resolves cross-namespace without `using` through the index — so a pure "require lexical grounding" rule would have deleted every cross-file C++ generic member. Both are now pinned. Python erases at CAPTURE time, so by resolution there is no `<` and the grounded route was never entered. `erasedTypeApplication` rebuilds the application from `TypeRef.declaredSpelling` — strictly: the raw name must be the base and the argument list the whole balanced remainder, so `User[]`, `vector<Item>` and `Repo<User>?` decline and behave exactly as before. Closing it took finding FOUR emitters, not one. Three were in Case 4; the fourth was `emitReferencesViaLookup` re-emitting the refused edge from the pre-resolved reference index, which needed the site marked handled with a recorded `receiver-unresolved`. A fifth lived in the text cascade: a declined fold falls THROUGH by design, and the cascade held its own ungrounded copy of the member-typing lookup. This file typed a receiver from a `TypeRef` in five places and the PR had wired three; all five now go through one `classOfDeclaredType`. Also here, from the same review: - Type parameters no longer bind a same-named class (uses the new `typeParameters`), and a BOUNDED parameter resolves through its bound. - A cross-file C++ PRIMARY template now binds: a ranking bug, not a capture one — the index fallback needs exactly one candidate and `Vec` held two, so removing the argument-pinned declaration leaves one. - `this->field.m()` resolved to nothing for generic AND non-generic alike. A language that declares `this` IS the enclosing class (`resolveThisViaEnclosingClass`) synthesizes no `this` typeBinding, so a chain whose BASE is `this` could never seed its head. Reading the provider flag keeps the rule language-free. - Class-level (static) member receivers emit nothing in TypeScript and Kotlin — for the non-generic control too. Case 6 types them from the DEF side (`isStatic` + `declaredType` on the field node), which needs no capture change; the target lookup stays the ordinary instance walk, so a static field HOLDING an instance still binds an instance method and a genuine static call is untouched. Partial-specialization SELECTION is deliberately not implemented: it needs argument deduction against a parameter list, and full C++ partial ordering is a real algorithm with no measured driving case. The discriminator now exists if someone wants it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * fix(cpp,js,php,go): close the remaining per-language generic-field gaps (#2833) Four language gaps the review measured, each with a different cause. **C++ qualified member fields.** `std::vector<Item> items;`, `ns::Repo<User> r;` and `ns::Address addr;` captured NOTHING: every field rule required the type node to BE a `type_identifier` or `template_type`, and a qualified member type is neither — tree-sitter wraps both in a `qualified_identifier`. Three depth-agnostic rules (one per declarator shape) now match the outer node, which also REMOVES the depth boundary rather than raising it: depths 1-4 capture, generic and non-generic alike. Preserving the qualifier resolves nothing — measured: `ns::Repo<User>` binds neither way, because the dotted-tail fallback splits on `.` while C++ writes `::`, and `ns::Repo` is not an index key. Since a capture is a NODE and not synthesized text, the qualifier is dropped in `interpret.ts` by a top-level-only `::` split, so `std::vector<std::string>` reduces to `vector<std::string>`, not `string`. Measured cost of the non-generic half, which was the reason to hesitate: field captures go 8 -> 32 across the C++ bench corpus, but the resolution-level census over those 13 repos is 32 CALLS edges before and 32 after, BYTE-IDENTICAL. It fabricates only where a workspace class shares a std name (`class string` beside `std::string name;`), which is the same accepted policy the already-landed qualified-generic rules carry, pinned in the matrix as intended. **JavaScript `@type {Repo<User>}` and PHP `@var Repo<User>`.** Neither bound a field type — and neither did the NON-generic control, so this was a docblock gap rather than a generics one. PHP needed TWO captures, not one: with only the type binding, `$this->repo->save()` resolved until a second class declared `save` and then went unresolved, because narrowing a same-named method needs the receiver's member owned. Generics do NOT come free in PHP — `normalizePhpType('Repo<User>')` returns `'User'` by the container-element convention, so passing the raw spelling through would have emitted `User::save`; type arguments are erased at capture instead. In JavaScript they DO come free, verified byte-identical to the TypeScript control. Both decline what they cannot prove: arrays, `list<User>`, unions, `Promise`/`Array` wrappers (via an exported predicate rather than a copied name list), statics, and any property that already has a native type. **Go generic interfaces.** `UserRepo` genuinely DOES implement `Repo[User]` — the spec says a generic type must be instantiated, that instantiation substitutes type arguments and yields a new non-generic type, and that a type implements an interface when it is in its type set. So the old behaviour was a FALSE NEGATIVE and the matrix note calling it "already correct" was wrong. Satisfaction is now checked against POSITIONALLY SUBSTITUTED method sets, so `Repo[Order]` does not match a `Save(x User)` implementor — substitution, not erasure. #2829's exact method-set model is untouched: pointer receivers still follow MS(*T), unexported names stay package-scoped, the declaration's own method set is still checked first, and the harvest is gated so a repo with no generic interface never runs it. `go.test.ts` is unchanged at 296 passing. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * test(resolution): pin every fix from the review, 114 -> 155 rows (#2833) Eight rows in this matrix pinned gaps that the fixes in this series close, so each asserted the opposite of the new truth. All eight are flipped, and the prose describing them as open gaps is corrected. Nine new cases cover the fixes that would otherwise have shipped unpinned. Flipped, each measured: the type-parameter FALSE edge (`run2`) is gone; a bounded parameter now resolves through its bound with fan-out; the cross-file C++ primary binds; the C++ qualifier depth boundary is removed rather than raised; Go gains its two structural implementors and JOINS the paired sweep, which had quietly excluded it — that exclusion was the taxonomy admitting a bug; and both static-member rows resolve. Added: JS `@type` and PHP `@var` docblock fields with three PHP declines; a Kotlin `companion object` receiver (given an INTERFACE control so the paired sweep can check it, which `ts-reach-shapes` cannot — its two sides are not count-comparable); the Python third-party grounding refusal plus the ground that still ADMITS, so an empty row can never be read as "erased names never resolve"; the four mirrors that would break if grounding were tightened (same-file and imported Python, a C++ `#include`, C# cross-namespace without `using`); C++ qualified non-generic fields including the fabrication policy and its absence case; `this->field.m()` for generic and non-generic with bare controls; and a Go negative proving substitution is positional, not erasure. Three shapes are pinned AS MEASURED with notes saying they are deliberate limits so nobody "fixes" them by accident: C++ partial-specialization selection is deterministically the primary (real selection needs argument deduction); `std::unique_ptr<T>` types to the pointer, not the pointee (`.` and `->` are indistinguishable to the resolver, so transparency would trade a recoverable miss for a confident wrong edge); and two same-named C++ specializations in one file collapse to one node id, which is why the shadowing fixture uses two files. One row pins a REMAINING wrong edge rather than hiding it: `m.inner.ping()` on a `Mapped[User]` head still binds the unrelated workspace class, while the one-segment-shallower `m.save(u)` correctly declines. The obvious one-line guard was written and MEASURED not to close it, so the surviving route is elsewhere and wants its own diagnosis — a broader refusal would change chain-head resolution for every language without pinning the shape it is meant to fix. `bench/scope-capture` is rebaselined for the six languages whose captures moved, regenerated from a fresh measurement rather than pasted; `--check` passes for all 15. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * perf(resolution): remove three measured hot-path regressions this series added (#2833) A quality pass over the #2833 series found three performance defects it had introduced, all measured, plus dead code and stale docs from six agents having appended to the same files across four rounds. No behaviour change: the resolver suite is identical before and after, and every scope-capture fingerprint is byte-identical. **An accidental quadratic in Go instantiation harvesting.** `collectGoInstantiations` calls `record()` for every type binding and every declared, return and parameter type in every Go file, and the `includes('[')` gate does not filter Go's most common types — `map[string]string`, `[]map[string]*v1.Pod` and `map[string]map[string]int` all produce a `map` candidate. Each false base then failed a full scope-chain walk and fell through to a LINEAR SCAN OF EVERY INTERFACE IN THE PROGRAM, with no dedupe on the spelling, so the same `map[string]string` written 10,000 times paid 10,000 scans. Now a qualified-name index built in `buildDetectionIndexes` (one probe, ambiguity semantics preserved exactly) plus a per-scope base memo: 8,000 interfaces / 80,000 spellings: 6,662 ms -> 104 ms (64x) `resolveEmbeddedInterface` held a byte-identical copy of that scan and now shares the helper. `GoInstantiation` was a single-field wrapper and collapses to the array it wrapped; its two parallel maps fold into one whose inner key IS the dedupe. `candidateStructIdsFor` was rebuilt per instantiation although every substituted method set has the same key set — hoisted, and materialized, because one branch returned a live iterator that would have yielded nothing on a second pass. **`scanForCrossFileClass` asked a name-keyed question that needs no name key.** It answered "does this file bind any cross-file class" by probing every accessible namespace once PER NAME. It now iterates the channels directly, taking whichever side is smaller so a large namespace table cannot reintroduce the product. Predicate and early exit preserved: 5,000 module names x 1,000 namespaces: 159.0 ms -> 1.2 ms (132x) **A duplicated scope walk on every generic receiver.** `resolveClassBindingForName` computed the lexical candidate list, then `resolveErasedBaseName` recomputed the identical `findAllBindingsInScope`. Computed once and passed: receiver at depth 8: 5,617 ns -> 3,091 ns (-45%) **A whole extra AST traversal per JavaScript and PHP file.** The docblock synthesis passes each added a full tree walk to find one node kind — the ninth in the JS emitter, the third in PHP. `node.namedChildren` materializes a wrapper array across the N-API boundary for every node, so one added pass cost 1.9x what parsing the entire file costs. Folded into the existing walks as one more node kind; capture output is byte-identical and every fingerprint is unchanged. Total emit time per file drops 4-7%. Hygiene, all verified stale rather than assumed: - `receiverOriginOpts` passed `resolveThisViaEnclosingClass`, which `classifyReceiverOrigin` never reads — the "both hooks" comment above it is true again. - The `stripDecoration` docstring's caller roll-call claimed the only edge-emitting caller "emits no edge and can only change a diagnostic label". Case 6 passes it and does emit edges. Replaced the roll-call with the rule; six rounds each appending a name to a list is how it went wrong. - A Python comment described the resolution-time grounding as a follow-up that "this parse-time pass cannot do" — it landed in this same branch and is pinned by `py-erased-grounding`. - `classOfDeclaredType` took a `scopeId` all five callers derived from the `TypeRef` they also passed. Dropped, so "these five are the same call" is enforced rather than asserted. - Three exports with no consumer outside their own file. - PHP had three copies of one preceding-comment sibling walk and two regexes for one tag, so a fix to either reader of `@var` would land on one and not the other — the symptom being a field typed differently from its own foreach element type. One walk, one regex. Tests: the new matrix leaked a fixture repo per case; it now carries the sibling suite's `cleanupTempDirSync` and the Windows EBUSY reasoning that goes with it. `PAIRED` was a second hand-maintained list and 19 of 41 cases had silently fallen out of it — it is derived from the cases now, with a new assertion that each case is either swept as a pair or carries a written reason it is not. That recovered one genuine omission (`php-typed-property`). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KtNfG6EPn738Y51AYs7wDp * test(bench): rebaseline receiver-resolution for the #2833 this-> fix The `Receiver-resolution drop guards` CI step failed on this branch: shapeArm.cpp.fieldReceiverCall: "INVISIBLE-GAP" -> "RESOLVES" shapeArm.cpp.decoratedFieldType: "INVISIBLE-GAP" -> "RESOLVES" Both are the intended improvement. The guard is exact-match by design — the drop count cannot move without a deliberate rebaseline, and the rebaseline path demands the movement be explained — so this records the two shape flips and leaves the call-drop count arm untouched. BASELINE.md still claimed `this->repo.save()` and `this->repo->save()` were INVISIBLE-GAP. That is now false: the `resolveThisViaEnclosingClass` head seed added in this PR resolves both. Also notes what the control established — this was never a generics gap, since the non-generic control failed identically before the fix. * docs(parse-cache): narrow the SCHEMA_BUMP ledger to what the bump delivers The ledger claimed a warm cache would make "the whole fix ... a silent no-op on every incremental analyze". That overstates the constant. The bump invalidates the PARSE half; whether the re-parsed captures reach the graph is gated separately and does not move: - `isIncremental` (core/run-analyze.ts) tests `!options.force`, an existing meta, `!schemaFingerprintMismatch(...)`, feature parity, non-empty `fileHashes` and a git repo. SCHEMA_BUMP is in none of them. - the incremental branch writes back only `hashDiff.toWrite` and logs the rest as "unchanged file rows preserved". - SCHEMA_FINGERPRINT hashes node/relation DDL, untouched here, so it is byte-identical and moves nothing either. So an incremental analyze re-parses an unchanged file correctly but keeps its existing rows; the new edges land on the next full rebuild. That is the pre-existing contract for every capture change, not a regression in this PR — but the comment should not promise more than it delivers. Comment only; no behavior change. SCHEMA_BUMP stays 48. --------- Co-authored-by: Gergo Magyar <gergomagyar0@gmail.com> Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> |
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GitNexus
Graph-powered code intelligence for AI agents. Index any codebase into a knowledge graph, then query it via MCP or CLI.
Works with Cursor, Claude Code, Antigravity (Google), Codex, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode, CodeBuddy (Tencent), Qoder (Alibaba), and any MCP-compatible tool.
Why?
AI coding tools don't understand your codebase structure. They edit a function without knowing 47 other functions depend on it. GitNexus fixes this by precomputing every dependency, call chain, and relationship into a queryable graph.
Three commands to give your AI agent full codebase awareness.
Quick Start
# Index your repo (run from repo root)
npx gitnexus analyze
That's it. This indexes the codebase, installs agent skills, registers Claude Code hooks, and creates AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md context files — all in one command.
On npm 11.x?
npxcan crash during install (Cannot destructure property 'package' of 'node.target'). Use the pnpm form instead:pnpm --allow-build=@ladybugdb/core --allow-build=gitnexus --allow-build=tree-sitter dlx gitnexus@latest analyzeSee Troubleshooting →
npx gitnexuscrashes withnode.target is null(npm 11) for the full matrix (global install, npm downgrade).
To configure MCP for your editor, run npx gitnexus setup once — or set it up manually below.
gitnexus setup auto-detects your editors and writes the correct global MCP config. You only need to run it once. To configure only selected integrations, pass --coding-agent/-c with a comma-separated list or repeat the option, for example gitnexus setup -c cursor,codex.
Editor Support
| 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) | 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 automatically enrich grep/glob/bash calls with knowledge graph context + PostToolUse hooks that detect a stale index after commits and prompt the agent to reindex.
Community Integrations
| Agent | Install | Source |
|---|---|---|
| pi | pi install npm:pi-gitnexus |
pi-gitnexus |
MCP Setup (manual)
If you prefer to configure manually instead of using 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
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
/hooksbefore they run. Pick one install route (gitnexus setup -c codexor the plugin): plugin hooks load alongside~/.codex/hooks.json, so installing both can fire duplicate hooks per tool call.
Cursor / Windsurf
Add to ~/.cursor/mcp.json (global — works for all projects):
{
"mcpServers": {
"gitnexus": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
}
}
}
OpenCode
Add to ~/.config/opencode/config.json:
{
"mcp": {
"gitnexus": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
}
}
}
CodeBuddy
CodeBuddy reads only the first existing file in its config priority chain: ~/.codebuddy/.mcp.json (recommended) → ~/.codebuddy/mcp.json (deprecated) → ~/.codebuddy.json (legacy). Edit the first non-empty file that exists — creating a higher-priority file would hide the servers in the ones below it. If none exist, create ~/.codebuddy/.mcp.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"gitnexus": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
}
}
}
Qoder
Add to ~/.qoder.json:
{
"mcpServers": {
"gitnexus": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "gitnexus@latest", "mcp"]
}
}
}
How It Works
GitNexus builds a complete knowledge graph of your codebase through a multi-phase indexing pipeline:
- Structure — Walks the file tree and maps folder/file relationships
- Parsing — Extracts functions, classes, methods, and interfaces using Tree-sitter ASTs
- Resolution — Resolves imports and function calls across files with language-aware logic
- Field & Property Type Resolution — Tracks field types across classes and interfaces for deep chain resolution (e.g.,
user.address.city.getName()) - Return-Type-Aware Variable Binding — Infers variable types from function return types, enabling accurate call-result binding
- Field & Property Type Resolution — Tracks field types across classes and interfaces for deep chain resolution (e.g.,
- Clustering — Groups related symbols into functional communities
- Processes — Traces execution flows from entry points through call chains
- Search — Builds hybrid search indexes for fast retrieval
The result is a LadybugDB graph database stored locally in .gitnexus/ with full-text search and semantic embeddings.
Experimental community detection engine
Experimental — not supported for production indexes. The Icebug engine is a research path for #2337. It carries no stability guarantee, may change or be removed without a major version, and partitions differently from the default, so switching engines changes community IDs and any generated context keyed on them. Reindex with
graphologybefore relying on the output.
Community detection uses the bundled Graphology Leiden implementation by default. To try the #2337 Icebug path without changing default analyze behavior, install the optional native package alongside GitNexus and set the engine:
npm i @ladybugmem/icebug
GITNEXUS_COMMUNITY_ENGINE=icebug npx gitnexus analyze
Supported values are graphology, icebug, and auto. Today auto is behaviorally identical to icebug: both try Icebug and fall back to Graphology, while graphology skips Icebug entirely.
Icebug is not a declared dependency — its prebuilds link against system Arrow 24 (libarrow.so.2400), OpenMP, and glibc ≥ 2.38, none of which GitNexus can assume. Analyze falls back to Graphology and reports the reason in progress output when the module is missing, fails to load, or predates the setNumberOfThreads / setSeed controls that reproducible community IDs require (present at icebug-nodejs HEAD, absent from the published 12.8.0 tarball — so the fallback is what you will see today). The engine is pinned to threads: 1, randomize: false for determinism.
Note that the bundled Graphology path is no longer the slow option it once was: #2337 removed an accidental O(communities × N) copy in the vendored Leiden. On a synthetic 200k-node / 800k-edge benchmark graph it went from exceeding the 60s timeout to finishing in ~15s. Real projections vary with their degree distribution, so treat that as a direction, not a guarantee.
MCP Tools
Your AI agent gets 17 tools (15 per-repo + 2 group) automatically:
| 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 |
With one indexed repo, the
repoparam is optional. With multiple, specify which:query({search_query: "auth", repo: "my-app"}). Per-repo tools also take an optionalbranchfor indexes pinned withgitnexus analyze --branch; omitting it queries the workspace index, which follows your checked-out working tree.explainandpdg_queryneed an index built withgitnexus analyze --pdg.
MCP Resources
| Resource | Purpose |
|---|---|
gitnexus://repos |
List all indexed repositories (read 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 |
MCP Prompts
| 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 |
CLI Commands
gitnexus setup # Configure MCP for detected editors (one-time; use -c to select)
gitnexus uninstall # Preview removal of GitNexus MCP/skills/hooks (add --force to apply)
gitnexus analyze [path] # Index a repository (or update stale index)
gitnexus analyze --repair-fts # Fast path: rebuild/verify only FTS indexes on existing index data
gitnexus analyze --force # Full rebuild: re-parse + graph rebuild + FTS rebuild
gitnexus analyze --embeddings # Enable embedding generation (slower, better search)
gitnexus embeddings install # Fetch the optional local embedding stack on demand (--cuda, --force)
gitnexus analyze --skills # Generate repo-specific skill files from detected communities
gitnexus analyze --skip-agents-md # Preserve custom AGENTS.md/CLAUDE.md gitnexus section edits
gitnexus analyze --skip-skills # Skip installing standard .claude/skills/gitnexus-* skill files
gitnexus analyze --skip-git # Index folders that are not Git repositories
gitnexus analyze --workers <n> # Parse worker pool size (>=1; default: cores-1, capped at 16)
gitnexus analyze --verbose # Log skipped files when parsers are unavailable
gitnexus analyze --max-file-size 1024 # Skip files larger than N KB (default: 512, cap: 32768)
gitnexus analyze --worker-timeout 60 # Increase worker idle timeout for slow parses
gitnexus analyze --wal-checkpoint-threshold 67108864 # 64 MiB. Control LadybugDB WAL auto-checkpoint threshold (default: 67108864 = 64 MiB; -1 keeps Ladybug stock ~16 MiB)
gitnexus mcp # Start MCP server (stdio) — serves all indexed repos
gitnexus serve # Start local HTTP server (multi-repo) for web UI
gitnexus index # Register an existing .gitnexus/ folder into the global registry
gitnexus list # List all indexed repositories
gitnexus status # Show index status for current repo
gitnexus clean # Delete index for current repo
gitnexus clean --all --force # Delete all indexes
gitnexus wiki [path] # Generate LLM-powered docs from knowledge graph
gitnexus wiki --model <model> # Wiki with custom LLM model (default: minimax/minimax-m2.5)
gitnexus wiki --base-url http://llama-box.local:8080/v1 --allow-insecure-connection llama-box.local
# Allow an exact LAN/self-hosted HTTP LLM host; env: GITNEXUS_ALLOW_INSECURE_CONNECTION
gitnexus doctor # Show runtime platform capabilities and embedding configuration
# Direct graph queries — the same tools the MCP server exposes, no MCP daemon needed
gitnexus query "<concept>" # Process-grouped hybrid search
gitnexus context <symbol> [--uid <uid> | --file <path>] # 360° symbol view; flags disambiguate a shared name
gitnexus impact <symbol> [--uid <uid> | --file <path> | --kind <kind>] # Blast radius; flags disambiguate a shared name
gitnexus trace <from> <to> # Shortest directed path between two symbols
gitnexus detect-changes # Map the working-tree diff to affected symbols and execution flows
gitnexus check # Read-only structural checks against the indexed graph
gitnexus cypher "<query>" # Run a raw Cypher query against the knowledge graph
# Repository groups (multi-repo / monorepo service tracking)
gitnexus group create <name> # Create a repository group
gitnexus group add <group> <groupPath> <registryName> # Add a repo to a group. <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 from a group 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
gitnexus uninstallreversesgitnexus 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--forceto apply. Per-repo indexes (gitnexus clean --all) and the global npm package (npm uninstall -g gitnexus) are left for you to remove.
Remote Embeddings
Set these env vars to use a remote OpenAI-compatible /v1/embeddings endpoint instead of the local model:
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_URL=http://your-server:8080/v1
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_MODEL=BAAI/bge-large-en-v1.5
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_DIMS=1024 # optional, default 384
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_REQUEST_DIMS=omit # optional: omit "dimensions", or an integer to override it
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_API_KEY=your-key # optional, default: "unused"
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_MAX_ATTEMPTS=3 # optional, total attempts (1-20)
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_RETRY_CAP_MS=5000 # optional, maximum retry delay
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_MIN_INTERVAL_MS=0 # optional, minimum request spacing
export GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_HTTP_TIMEOUT_MS=180000 # optional, per-request timeout (max 300000)
gitnexus analyze . --embeddings
GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_REQUEST_DIMS controls only the dimensions field sent in
the request body, independently of GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_DIMS (which still
validates the returned vector's length):
omit(ornone,off,false,0) — do not senddimensionsat all, for strict backends that return the right vector size but reject the field.- a positive integer — send that value instead of
GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_DIMS. - unset — send
GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_DIMS(the previous behavior).
Works with Infinity, vLLM, TEI, llama.cpp, Ollama, LM Studio, or OpenAI. Retry and pacing settings are provider-neutral; provider-specific limits should be supplied through configuration. When unset, local embeddings are used unchanged.
JVM Package Sibling Injection
Java and Kotlin files in the same package receive implicit sibling class bindings
to resolve same-package references. By default, GitNexus injects at most 200
siblings per module scope, nearest first by path. Set
GITNEXUS_MAX_INJECTED_SIBLINGS=0 to remove that per-file limit; this can
substantially increase indexing work for large packages.
export GITNEXUS_MAX_INJECTED_SIBLINGS=200
gitnexus analyze .
When the limit truncates a file's sibling set, that file is marked
visibility-incomplete: same-package references still resolve through the
injected siblings, but wildcard-import attribution (used by the Spring
bean/DI/config passes) is disabled for it rather than resolved against a
partial view. Analyze logs a sibling injection truncated warning naming how
many files were affected.
Packages with more than 500 files are a separate, fixed limit: they are skipped
entirely (logged as skipping package with N files) and every file in them is
marked visibility-incomplete. GITNEXUS_MAX_INJECTED_SIBLINGS does not lift
that skip — including at 0.
Multi-Repo Support
GitNexus supports indexing multiple repositories. Each gitnexus analyze registers the repo in a global registry (~/.gitnexus/registry.json). The MCP server serves all indexed repos automatically.
Supported Languages
TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, C, C++, C#, Go, Rust, PHP, Kotlin, Swift, Ruby, Dart
Language Feature Matrix
| 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
Agent Skills
GitNexus ships with skill files that teach AI agents how to use the tools effectively:
- 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 (
--pdgindex) - Taint Analysis — Source→sink data-flow findings (
--pdgindex) - Plan / Work / Review / LFG — The engineering family: implementation-ready plans, gated plan execution, graph-backed change review with taint + expert lenses, and the end-to-end pipeline
Installed automatically by both gitnexus analyze (per-repo) and gitnexus setup (global). Run gitnexus analyze --skills to additionally generate each detected functional area as a direct project skill under .claude/skills/gitnexus-area-<name>/.
Requirements
- Node.js >= 22
- Git repository (uses git for commit tracking)
- Linux: glibc 2.34 or newer (Ubuntu 22.04+, RHEL/Rocky/Alma 9+, Debian 12+, Fedora 35+). The
LadybugDB native binary ships as a prebuild against that floor, so on an older host it cannot
load and reinstalling does not help — see
Linux:
GLIBC_2.34' not found. - Windows, for full-text search: the Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) and
OpenSSL 3 (
libssl-3-x64.dll,libcrypto-3-x64.dll) resolvable onPATH— see Windows: full-text search unavailable.
Release candidates
Stable releases publish to the default latest dist-tag. When a pull request
with non-documentation changes merges into main, an automated workflow also
publishes a prerelease build under the rc dist-tag, so early adopters can
try in-flight fixes without waiting for the next stable cut. (Docs-only
merges are skipped.)
# Try the latest release candidate (pre-stable — may change at any time)
npm install -g gitnexus@rc
# — or —
npx gitnexus@rc analyze
Release-candidate versions follow the standard semver prerelease format
X.Y.Z-rc.N, where X.Y.Z is the next stable target (bumped from the
current latest by patch by default; minor or major when kicking off a
bigger cycle) and N increments per published rc. Example sequence:
1.6.2-rc.1, 1.6.2-rc.2, …, then once 1.6.2 ships stable,
1.6.3-rc.1. See the Releases page
for the full list; stable latest is unaffected.
Troubleshooting
Cannot destructure property 'package' of 'node.target' as it is null
This error comes from npm 11.x's arborist while installing gitnexus (often via npx), before gitnexus code runs. It is triggered by platform-filtered optionalDependencies in native packages such as onnxruntime-node / @huggingface/transformers (used when indexing with --embeddings). GitNexus cannot catch it at runtime — use one of these workarounds:
pnpm --allow-build=@ladybugdb/core --allow-build=gitnexus --allow-build=tree-sitter dlx gitnexus@latest analyze # auto-selected when pnpm + npm 11+
npm install -g gitnexus@latest # global install avoids per-run npx reify
gitnexus analyze # if already installed globally
On pnpm 10+, lifecycle scripts are blocked unless explicitly allowed — the resolver adds --allow-build for @ladybugdb/core, gitnexus, and tree-sitter automatically when it picks pnpm dlx.
If you must stay on npm 11.x without pnpm, downgrade npm toolchain-wide (last resort):
npm install -g npm@10.9.0
See #1939 and the original #819 thread. An older variant of this crash (tree-sitter-dart tarball URL) was fixed in gitnexus v1.6.2+ (#820); if you still see install failures after upgrading, clear cache:
npm cache clean --force
npx gitnexus@latest analyze
ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED / lbugjs.node missing (pnpm dlx, pnpx)
GitNexus depends on @ladybugdb/core, whose native database addon
(lbugjs.node) is placed by a postinstall script. pnpm dlx, pnpx, and any
install run with --ignore-scripts skip lifecycle scripts, so the addon is
never put in place and the runtime crashes with ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED:
Error: dlopen(.../@ladybugdb/core/lbugjs.node, ...): tried: '...' (no such file)
code: 'ERR_DLOPEN_FAILED'
Options that run install scripts:
# pnpm dlx with explicit build permission (one-off, no global install required)
pnpm --allow-build=@ladybugdb/core --allow-build=gitnexus --allow-build=tree-sitter \
dlx gitnexus@latest serve
# npm: global install (recommended on npm 11+; bare npx may crash — see section above)
npm install -g gitnexus@latest
gitnexus serve
# npx (npm < 11, or after upgrading npm)
npx gitnexus@latest serve
# pnpm: global install with build scripts allowed (pnpm 10.2+; no approve-builds -g on pnpm 11+)
pnpm add -g --allow-build=@ladybugdb/core --allow-build=gitnexus --allow-build=tree-sitter gitnexus
gitnexus serve
Linux: GLIBC_2.34' not found
LadybugDB native binary (lbugjs.node) exists but failed to load:
/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by .../lbugjs.node)
The LadybugDB addon ships as a prebuilt binary compiled against glibc 2.34. If your distribution is older (CentOS/RHEL 8 has 2.28, Ubuntu 20.04 has 2.31, Debian 11 has 2.31), the dynamic loader cannot resolve its symbols.
Reinstalling does not help — every download delivers the same prebuilt binary. The fix is a newer C library:
- Run GitNexus on a distribution with glibc 2.34 or newer — Ubuntu 22.04+, RHEL/Rocky/Alma 9+, Debian 12+, Fedora 35+.
- Or run it in the container image, which bundles a current glibc (see Docker).
gitnexus doctor reports the required and detected glibc versions when this happens
(#2672).
Windows: full-text search unavailable
analyze completes, but keyword search is degraded and doctor shows the FTS extension failing
with Windows error 126 (The specified module could not be found). The extension needs two
runtime dependencies Windows does not ship by default:
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2015-2022 Redistributable (x64) — https://aka.ms/vs/17/release/vc_redist.x64.exe
- OpenSSL 3 —
libssl-3-x64.dllandlibcrypto-3-x64.dll, resolvable onPATH
The redistributable alone is not sufficient. If Git for Windows is installed you already have
the OpenSSL DLLs — run gitnexus from Git Bash, or prepend the directory to PATH in the
shell you use:
$env:PATH = "C:\Program Files\Git\mingw64\bin;$env:PATH"
gitnexus analyze --repair-fts
Without them the index is still built, but without search tables, so query returns empty keyword
results until you re-run gitnexus analyze --repair-fts from a shell where the DLLs resolve
(#2669).
Installation fails with native module errors
Some optional language grammars (Dart, Proto, Swift, Kotlin) require native compilation. If they fail, GitNexus still works — those languages will be skipped. To skip them intentionally (no C++ toolchain needed), set GITNEXUS_SKIP_OPTIONAL_GRAMMARS=1 before installing.
If npm install -g gitnexus fails on native modules:
# Ensure build tools are available (Linux/macOS)
# Ubuntu/Debian: sudo apt install python3 make g++
# macOS: xcode-select --install
# Retry installation
npm install -g gitnexus
Installation fails behind an HTTP proxy (onnxruntime-node postinstall)
onnxruntime-node's postinstall downloads optional CUDA GPU binaries from api.nuget.org — outside the npm registry, so registry mirrors don't cover it, and its proxy layer (global-agent) ignores the standard HTTP_PROXY/HTTPS_PROXY variables and rejects 302 redirects (#2370).
Since the packages are optional dependencies, a failed download no longer breaks npm install -g gitnexus — npm skips the embedding stack and everything else works. The stack then self-heals on demand: the first gitnexus analyze --embeddings (or an explicit gitnexus embeddings install) fetches it through your configured npm registry — mirrors and proxies apply, no NuGet download involved — into ~/.gitnexus/embedding-runtime.
# heal a proxy-degraded install manually (CPU embeddings; registry-only)
gitnexus embeddings install
# reinstall into the prefix even when the stack already resolves
gitnexus embeddings install --force
# CUDA GPU hosts: also fetch GPU binaries (NuGet; set the proxy global-agent reads)
GLOBAL_AGENT_HTTPS_PROXY=<proxy-url> gitnexus embeddings install --cuda
The prefix defaults to ~/.gitnexus/embedding-runtime; set GITNEXUS_EMBEDDING_RUNTIME_DIR to install it elsewhere (e.g. a writable path in a container).
Node requirement for the on-demand prefix: the self-heal loads the prefixed packages via
module.registerHooks, available on Node ≥ 22.15 (on the 22.x line) or ≥ 23.5 (on the 23.x line). On an older Node the packages install but can't be loaded from the prefix — reinstall them into the install itself instead (works on every supported Node):ONNXRUNTIME_NODE_INSTALL=skip npm install -g gitnexus(Windows:set ONNXRUNTIME_NODE_INSTALL=skip && npm install -g gitnexus). Skipping only the CUDA download keeps full CPU embeddings (CPU embeddings don't need it). Check the result any time withgitnexus doctor(Embeddings → Support line).
Analyze warns about unavailable FTS or VECTOR extensions
GitNexus uses optional DuckDB extensions for BM25 and vector search. The gitnexus serve and MCP read paths only ever try to LOAD the extensions — they never block on a network install. The analyze command, by default, attempts one bounded out-of-process install if LOAD fails (a plain INSTALL to download a missing extension, escalating to FORCE INSTALL only when the LOAD error shows the existing file is broken or truncated, so a permanent non-file failure does not re-download on every run) and proceeds even when that install times out, so the index is always written to disk; BM25/vector search degrade gracefully until the extensions become available.
Configure the behavior with these environment variables:
| Variable | Values | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|---|
GITNEXUS_LBUG_EXTENSION_INSTALL |
auto, load-only, never |
auto |
auto runs one bounded install if LOAD fails — a plain INSTALL, escalating to FORCE INSTALL only when the LOAD error shows the present extension file is broken. load-only only uses already-installed extensions (recommended for offline / firewalled environments). never skips optional extensions entirely. |
GITNEXUS_LBUG_EXTENSION_INSTALL_TIMEOUT_MS |
positive integer | 15000 |
Wall-clock budget for the out-of-process extension-install child before it is killed. |
GITNEXUS_FTS_STEMMER |
supported LadybugDB 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 when that better matches repository comments and identifiers. Re-run gitnexus analyze --repair-fts after changing it. |
GITNEXUS_FTS_CJK_SEGMENTATION |
none, bigram |
none |
bigram inserts overlapping character-bigram boundaries into Chinese/Japanese Han-ideograph spans in content/description before FTS indexing, so LadybugDB's space-only tokenizer can see sub-phrase word boundaries. Scoped to CJK Unified Ideographs only — Japanese Hiragana/Katakana and Korean Hangul are not currently segmented. Unlike GITNEXUS_FTS_STEMMER, this rewrites stored text — enabling it on an already-indexed repo requires a full gitnexus analyze --force; neither --repair-fts nor a plain incremental analyze applies it to previously-indexed files. Set the same value wherever analyze and search-serving processes (CLI query, MCP server, web server) run. |
GITNEXUS_STREAM_GRAPH_EMIT |
0, 1 |
1 (on) |
On by default on a full rebuild (--force); incremental runs ignore it. Holds structural relationships (CALLS, IMPORTS, ACCESSES, CONTAINS, ...) as CSV-on-disk plus compact in-memory columns instead of as objects in three overlapping indexes, cutting peak in-memory graph heap by ~1.4x at no measurable CPU cost (measured A/B on a synthetic 400k-node / 1.08M-edge graph: 819 MB -> 584 MB, iteration at parity, scaling verified linear from 100k to 800k nodes, with every edge still visible through the graph interface; no end-to-end measurement on a real repository yet). Nothing is traded away — community detection, process extraction, PDG taint summaries and the local-symbol pruner all read a complete relationship set and behave identically. Set to 0 only to bisect a suspected streaming-related fault. |
GITNEXUS_COMMUNITY_ENGINE |
graphology, icebug, auto |
graphology |
Community-detection engine used during analyze. graphology is the supported default. icebug and auto are experimental and currently behave identically: both try the optional @ladybugmem/icebug native Leiden over a CSR export and fall back to Graphology if it is not installed, cannot load, or lacks the deterministic thread/seed controls. Experimental engines partition differently, so community IDs are not comparable across engines. |
GITNEXUS_WAL_CHECKPOINT_THRESHOLD |
integer >= -1 |
67108864 (64 MiB) |
LadybugDB WAL auto-checkpoint threshold during analyze (bytes). Auto-checkpoint remains enabled; -1 keeps Ladybug's stock ~16 MiB. Larger thresholds reduce checkpoint frequency but increase the WAL size at rotation time — choose a smaller value on disk-constrained environments. |
GITNEXUS_LBUG_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE |
integer >= 0 (bytes) |
min(2 GiB, 80% RAM) | LadybugDB buffer-pool ceiling for every GitNexus database (analyze, MCP server, serve, group bridges). Bounded so a long-lived gitnexus mcp process or a large incremental analyze cannot grow toward LadybugDB's native 80%-of-RAM default and OOM the host (#2557). 0 restores that native unbounded default; invalid values warn and fall back to the default. During analyze the pool is right-sized to the graph and, on non-4 KiB-page hosts (Apple Silicon 16 KiB, Ascend/aarch64 64 KiB), scaled 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. |
GITNEXUS_LBUG_MAX_DB_SIZE |
positive integer (bytes) | 17179869184 (16 GiB) |
Upper bound for a single LadybugDB database file. This is an mmap/disk-address-space ceiling, not a memory limit — it does not constrain the buffer pool (use GITNEXUS_LBUG_BUFFER_POOL_SIZE for that). Raise it when indexing genuinely huge monorepos; invalid values silently fall back to the default. |
# Offline/airgapped: never reach the network for extensions
GITNEXUS_LBUG_EXTENSION_INSTALL=load-only npx gitnexus analyze
# Slow network: give extension downloads more time
GITNEXUS_LBUG_EXTENSION_INSTALL_TIMEOUT_MS=30000 npx gitnexus analyze
# CJK-heavy codebase: rebuild keyword indexes without English stemming
GITNEXUS_FTS_STEMMER=none npx gitnexus analyze --repair-fts
# CJK-heavy codebase: enable sub-phrase search over Chinese/Japanese Han text.
# On an already-indexed repo, the first run after enabling this MUST be --force —
# --repair-fts and plain incremental `analyze` both leave old files un-segmented.
GITNEXUS_FTS_CJK_SEGMENTATION=bigram npx gitnexus analyze --force
Analysis runs out of memory
Memory management is automatic: analyze sizes its heap to the machine
(always below physical RAM), caps each parse worker, and — rather than
grinding into a GC death spiral or crash — stops early with a message telling
you the one thing to do. Repeated
Replacement worker did not report ready within 5000ms warnings on a large
repository are part of the same picture: memory pressure starving healthy
workers, not a worker bug (#2649).
If analyze says the repository doesn't fit, do what the message says:
- The machine has more memory to give (a
NODE_OPTIONS--max-old-space-sizepin from your environment is holding analyze back): re-run without the pin — no flags needed. - The machine is the ceiling: shrink the scope (exclude generated or vendored directories, below) or use a machine with more RAM.
Escape hatches (GITNEXUS_MEMORY=off to decline the autopilot,
GITNEXUS_WORKER_HEAP_MB to size workers yourself) are listed in the
environment-variable table below —
most users never need them.
For very large repositories:
# Increase Node.js heap size
NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=16384" npx gitnexus analyze
# Exclude large directories (this repo only)
echo "vendor/" >> .gitnexusignore
echo "dist/" >> .gitnexusignore
# Exclude a directory across every repo you index, without touching each
# repo's own .gitnexusignore or needing push/commit access to it. GitNexus
# reads the same sources `git` itself does: core.excludesFile (all repos)
# and $GIT_DIR/info/exclude (this repo only, untracked). A repo's own
# .gitignore/.gitnexusignore can still override either with a `!pattern`
# negation. Skip both entirely with GITNEXUS_NO_GLOBAL_IGNORE=1.
git config --global core.excludesFile ~/.gitignore_global # applies to every repo
echo "docs/" >> ~/.gitignore_global
echo "build/" >> .git/info/exclude # this repo only, untracked
Large files are being skipped
By default the walker skips files larger than 512 KB (see log line Skipped N large files (>512KB)). Raise the threshold via either the CLI flag or the environment variable — both accept a value in KB:
# CLI flag (takes precedence over the env var)
npx gitnexus analyze --max-file-size 2048 # skip only files > 2 MB
# Environment variable (persists across commands)
export GITNEXUS_MAX_FILE_SIZE=2048
npx gitnexus analyze
Values above 32768 KB (32 MB) are clamped to the tree-sitter parser ceiling; invalid values fall back to the 512 KB default with a one-time warning. When an override is active, analyze prints the effective threshold in its startup banner (e.g. GITNEXUS_MAX_FILE_SIZE: effective threshold 2048KB (default 512KB)).
Analyze reports a worker timeout
Worker parse timeouts are recoverable. GitNexus retries stalled worker jobs with backoff, splits large jobs to isolate slow files, and quarantines a file that repeatedly crashes its worker (respawning the slot so the pool keeps going). If a large repository needs more time per worker job, use either:
# CLI flag, in seconds
npx gitnexus analyze --worker-timeout 60
# Environment variable, in milliseconds
export GITNEXUS_WORKER_SUB_BATCH_TIMEOUT_MS=60000
npx gitnexus analyze
For repositories with very large source files, GITNEXUS_WORKER_SUB_BATCH_MAX_BYTES controls the worker job byte budget. The default is 8388608 bytes (8 MB).
Worker pool resilience tuning
Four env vars expose the pool's resilience layers (respawn budget, cumulative-timeout cap, circuit breaker, startup handshake). Defaults are tuned for typical repos; bump them when an analyze legitimately needs more retries, or lower them to fail-fast on a known-bad shape.
| Variable | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
GITNEXUS_WORKER_MAX_RESPAWNS_PER_SLOT |
3 |
Max replacement spawns per slot before the slot is dropped from the active rotation. |
GITNEXUS_WORKER_MAX_CUMULATIVE_TIMEOUT_MS |
5 × subBatchTimeoutMs |
Total retry wall-time budget per job before quarantining. Bounds exponentially-growing retry waits. |
GITNEXUS_WORKER_CONSECUTIVE_FAILURE_THRESHOLD |
max(3, poolSize) |
Per-slot consecutive deaths before the pool's circuit breaker trips. After tripping, dispatches require a fresh pool. |
GITNEXUS_WORKER_SHUTDOWN_DRAIN_MS |
30000 |
Max wait at pool shutdown for a retired worker still inside native code — terminated at its next JS-safe point instead of mid-native-call, which would abort the process (Napi::Error, #2432). |
GITNEXUS_WORKER_READY_TIMEOUT_MS |
5000 |
Startup budget for a parse worker to load its grammar bindings and report {type:'ready'}. Slots that miss it are treated as startup crashes. Raise it on a slow or heavily loaded host where a full pool cold-starting concurrently needs more than 5s. |
GITNEXUS_MEMORY |
off |
unset (autopilot on) |
GITNEXUS_WORKER_HEAP_MB |
clamp(512, RAM/2/poolSize, 4096) |
Per-worker V8 old-generation heap cap (#2649). Bounds pool RSS on large repos; a worker exceeding it dies with a real heap error handled by quarantine/respawn. |
GITNEXUS_SERVER_ANALYZE_HEAP_MB |
min(8192, auto cap) |
Heap for the web/MCP server's forked analyze worker (#2649). Defaults to the historical 8192 MB bounded by the machine/container's RAM-aware auto cap; set an absolute MB value to override. |
GITNEXUS_CPP_CAPTURE_BUDGET_MS |
20000 |
Per-file wall-clock budget for C++ capture extraction; on breach the file keeps partial captures with a warning (#2432). 0 expires immediately. |
Graph cleanup tuning
After scope resolution, analyze prunes inert block-local value symbols (a function-local const/let/var that ends up with only its structural File→DEFINES edge) to keep the graph focused on cross-symbol relationships. Module/file-scope symbols, class members, and any local with a real edge are always kept.
| Variable | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
GITNEXUS_KEEP_LOCAL_VALUE_SYMBOLS |
unset | Set to 1/true to keep inert block-local value symbols instead of pruning them. |
Programmatic callers can pass keepLocalValueSymbols: true in PipelineOptions instead of setting the env var.
Scope-resolution property-key dispatch cap
During scope resolution GitNexus synthesizes CALLS edges through property-key
dispatch — call sites like hooks.emitScopeCaptures() where a property key is
registered by multiple definitions across the codebase. To keep this fan-in
bounded, each property key is capped at 32 registrations: a key registered
by more than 32 distinct functions is skipped entirely (no CALLS are synthesized
through it), and the dropped key names are surfaced in the analyze log for
operator visibility. The cap is calibrated at 2× this repo's own provider table
(16 legitimate registrations, one per language provider).
| Variable | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
GITNEXUS_MAX_PROPERTY_DISPATCH_FANOUT |
32 |
Per-property-key registration cap in the property-dispatch scope-resolution pass. Set to a positive integer to raise it for repositories whose provider/hook tables exceed the default and lose CALLS coverage on a legitimate key; non-integer or < 1 values fall back to 32. Lowering it tightens the overflow budget. |
# A property key registered by 40 functions overflows the default 32 and drops
# all CALLS through it — raise the cap for that repo and rebuild so scope
# resolution reruns.
export GITNEXUS_MAX_PROPERTY_DISPATCH_FANOUT=64
npx gitnexus analyze --force
Scope-resolution dispatch-target cap
During scope resolution GitNexus resolves calls that flow through callable
values — function/method references bound to variables, passed as arguments,
or stored in maps/tables. To keep that inclusion-based resolution finite, each
callable site is capped at 32 dispatch targets. When a site gathers more
candidates than the cap it is treated as overflowed and all of its call
edges are dropped — a cliff, not a tail, so a repository with a legitimately
wide dispatch table (a single callable site resolving to 33+ targets) loses
that site's whole call chain. In that case analyze logs
callable-value-flow: candidate set exceeded the cap; no partial CALLS emitted
alongside a warning carrying the language, the overflowing context, the
candidate count, and the cap (32).
Raise the cap for such repositories:
| Variable | Default | Effect |
|---|---|---|
GITNEXUS_MAX_CALLABLE_VALUE_TARGETS |
32 |
Per-callable-site dispatch-target cap in the callable-value-flow scope-resolution pass. Set to a positive integer to raise it for repositories whose wide dispatch tables overflow the default and lose a whole call chain; non-integer or < 1 values fall back to 32. Lowering it tightens the overflow budget. |
# A callable site resolving to 48 targets overflows the default 32 and drops
# the chain — raise the cap for that repo and rebuild so scope resolution reruns.
export GITNEXUS_MAX_CALLABLE_VALUE_TARGETS=64
npx gitnexus analyze --force
Hook augmentation and skip diagnostics
The Claude Code / Antigravity hooks keep their stderr silent on normal skip
paths so strict hook runners (e.g. Codex PreToolUse) never see unexpected
diagnostic output.
When a GitNexus process holds the repo DB write lock (the common case — the MCP
server is running, or the DB-lock probe timed out and failed closed), the local
CLI augment can't run (LadybugDB is single-writer). Rather than drop the
augmentation, the hook hands the agent a short, conditional MCP-query hint on
stdout (the sanctioned additionalContext channel) — "if the GitNexus MCP tools
are live in this session, call query …" — so an agent that has the tools can
still fetch graph-ranked context. The hint is throttled to at most once per repo
per window (GITNEXUS_MCP_HINT_THROTTLE_MS, default 10 min; 0 disables), so an
owner-locked session isn't nudged on every search. A stale-index reminder, or an
already-current index, stays silent.
To see why a hook skipped the CLI augment, set GITNEXUS_DEBUG=1 and re-run the
action — the hook writes the reason (e.g. [GitNexus] augment skipped: MCP server owns DB) and the stale-index hint to its stderr:
GITNEXUS_DEBUG=1 <your command> # surfaces hook skip/diagnostic reasons on stderr
Only GITNEXUS_DEBUG=1 and GITNEXUS_DEBUG=true enable diagnostics; every other
value (including 0 and false) is treated as off. Diagnostics go to stderr
only — the hook's structured stdout (the JSON the agent consumes) is unaffected.
Privacy
- All processing happens locally on your machine
- No code is sent to any server
- Index stored in
.gitnexus/inside your repo (gitignored) - Global registry at
~/.gitnexus/stores only paths and metadata
Web UI
GitNexus also has a browser-based UI at gitnexus.vercel.app — 100% client-side, your code never leaves the browser.
Local Backend Mode: Run gitnexus serve and open the web UI locally — it auto-detects the server and shows all your indexed repos, with full AI chat support. No need to re-upload or re-index. The agent's tools (Cypher queries, search, code navigation) route through the backend HTTP API automatically.
License
Free for non-commercial use. Contact for commercial licensing.