GitNexus/gitnexus/skills/gitnexus-cli.md
abhigyanpatwari 39b01f101e feat(skills): rewrite skill descriptions for better auto-invocation
Skill descriptions were too tool-centric ("using knowledge graph", "blast
radius") which prevented Claude Code from matching them to user intent.
Rewritten to user-intent-driven format with "Use when..." phrasing and
example trigger phrases so Claude can semantically match user requests.

Updated across all 3 sources: gitnexus/skills/, gitnexus-claude-plugin/skills/,
.claude/skills/, and the ai-context.ts fallback generator.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-02-26 18:24:41 +05:30

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name description
gitnexus-cli Use when the user needs to run GitNexus CLI commands like analyze/index a repo, check status, clean the index, generate a wiki, or list indexed repos. Examples: "Index this repo", "Reanalyze the codebase", "Generate a wiki"

GitNexus CLI Commands

All commands work via npx — no global install required.

Commands

analyze — Build or refresh the index

npx gitnexus analyze

Run from the project root. This parses all source files, builds the knowledge graph, writes it to .gitnexus/, and generates CLAUDE.md / AGENTS.md context files.

Flag Effect
--force Force full re-index even if up to date
--embeddings Enable embedding generation for semantic search (off by default)

When to run: First time in a project, after major code changes, or when gitnexus://repo/{name}/context reports the index is stale.

status — Check index freshness

npx gitnexus status

Shows whether the current repo has a GitNexus index, when it was last updated, and symbol/relationship counts. Use this to check if re-indexing is needed.

clean — Delete the index

npx gitnexus clean

Deletes the .gitnexus/ directory and unregisters the repo from the global registry. Use before re-indexing if the index is corrupt or after removing GitNexus from a project.

Flag Effect
--force Skip confirmation prompt
--all Clean all indexed repos, not just the current one

wiki — Generate documentation from the graph

npx gitnexus wiki

Generates repository documentation from the knowledge graph using an LLM. Requires an API key (saved to ~/.gitnexus/config.json on first use).

Flag Effect
--force Force full regeneration
--model <model> LLM model (default: minimax/minimax-m2.5)
--base-url <url> LLM API base URL
--api-key <key> LLM API key
--concurrency <n> Parallel LLM calls (default: 3)
--gist Publish wiki as a public GitHub Gist

list — Show all indexed repos

npx gitnexus list

Lists all repositories registered in ~/.gitnexus/registry.json. The MCP list_repos tool provides the same information.

After Indexing

  1. Read gitnexus://repo/{name}/context to verify the index loaded
  2. Use the other GitNexus skills (exploring, debugging, impact-analysis, refactoring) for your task

Troubleshooting

  • "Not inside a git repository": Run from a directory inside a git repo
  • Index is stale after re-analyzing: Restart Claude Code to reload the MCP server
  • Embeddings slow: Omit --embeddings (it's off by default) or set OPENAI_API_KEY for faster API-based embedding