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Public story · 2026-07-16 · high
The MIT-licensed tool parses about 40 languages locally with tree-sitter and marks every edge as read from code or guessed, per its repository.
Why now: Version 0.9.17 shipped July 16, three and a half months into a stretch of roughly 780 stars a day that hasn't slowed.
Graphify passed 88,467 stars on GitHub, per its repository.
The tool maps codebases into knowledge graphs without ever calling an LLM, parsing roughly 40 languages locally with tree-sitter AST. No code leaves the machine, which answers the question most teams ask before letting an AI tool near a private repo.
The repository lists the project (Graphify-Labs/graphify) as MIT-licensed, now at version 0.9.17 as of July 16.
Every edge in the graph gets tagged EXTRACTED, meaning it's explicit in the source, or INFERRED, meaning the tool derived it instead. That distinction, not the graph itself, is the whole product: a way to see what was actually read versus what was guessed.
It also runs Leiden clustering to surface god nodes and subsystem communities. The output is a markdown wiki plus an interactive HTML view, and you can query the JSON graph in natural language instead of re-reading files. Install is one line: uv tool install graphifyy && graphify install.
Growth has held near 780 stars a day since April 3, a pace that's stayed steady for three and a half months. My bet: the EXTRACTED/INFERRED split gets copied before the star count does, since honest tagging is harder to fake than a good-looking graph.
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graphify supports Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (graphify supports Claude Code); both cover AST, JSON, LLM; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
graphify partners with Cursor / Shared entities / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (graphify partners with Cursor); both cover April, LLM; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
graphify partners with Cursor / Shared entities / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (graphify partners with Cursor); both cover LLM, MIT; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
graphify partners with Cursor / Shared entity: April / Same source domain / Shared topic / Earlier coverage
Linked by a graph relationship (graphify partners with Cursor); both cover April; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
graphify partners with Codex / Shared entities / Same source domain
Linked by a graph relationship (graphify partners with Codex); both cover July, MIT; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
graphify supports Claude Code / Shared entities / Same source domain
Linked by a graph relationship (graphify supports Claude Code); both cover July, MIT; reported by the same outlet (github.com).
Simon Willison released LLM / Shared entities / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (Simon Willison released LLM); both cover HTML, LLM; earlier HTML coverage from 2026-06-19.
graphify supports Claude Code / Shared entity: April / Same source domain / Earlier coverage / Tension
Linked by a graph relationship (graphify supports Claude Code); both cover April; reported by the same outlet (github.com).