Team Builds AI Onboarding Tool 'Waypoint' to Guide Devs Through Unfamiliar Codebases

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A developer team at InnovaHack Chapter-1 built Waypoint, a platform designed to help developers navigate unfamiliar codebases without reading irrelevant files. Users point it at a GitHub repo or local folder, describe a task, and receive a structured 'Mission Brief' listing exactly which files to touch, potential pitfalls, and a suggested order of steps. Under the hood, Waypoint runs a five-step pipeline combining keyword matching, NVIDIA embedding-based semantic retrieval, LLM-based file selection, source code parsing, and mission generation. The project was selected as one of the Top 50 entries to advance to Round 2 of the hackathon. The team has also shared that circumstances following their placement led them to withdraw from the next round.

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