86k-Star Tool Graphify Converts Codebases Into Queryable Knowledge Graphs

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Graphify is a three-month-old open-source tool that has surpassed 86,000 GitHub stars by converting codebases, documents, and other files into queryable knowledge graphs. It uses tree-sitter for local AST parsing on code files, requiring no API key, and optionally integrates with Claude or GPT for semantic extraction from documentation. The tool outputs multiple formats including an interactive HTML visualization, a JSON graph file, a markdown report highlighting central nodes, and an Obsidian vault. When tested on a small four-file Python project, Graphify identified 15 nodes, 17 relationships, and three communities that accurately reflected the codebase's logical architecture. The tool supports over 30 platforms and languages and is installable via pip under the package name graphifyy.

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