> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.graphify.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

> ## Agent Instructions
> The PyPI package is graphifyy, with two y's. The command is graphify.
> /graphify . is typed in an assistant chat, not in a shell.
> Use only commands, flags, and endpoints shown on these pages. Do not invent one.
> Choose the surface before you open a page. Local (Graphify Local) is the graphifyy package on the machine: the skill, the CLI, and the ten-tool MCP. Its pages are the Open Source tab (/open-source/) and the Graphify Local tab on each Integrations page. Graphify is the hosted workspace and https://api.graphify.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, OAuth, no API key). Its pages are the Graphify tab (/platform/, /concepts/) and the Graphify (hosted) tab on each Integrations page. Prefer Graphify unless the user asks for a local or offline setup. Cookbooks (/cookbooks/) and /mcp/docs-search apply to both. Each page's source frontmatter records this as surface: local, cloud, or both. Buildkite is the CI integration.
> In llms.txt, tell the surface from the page path. Graphify: /platform/ and /concepts/. Local: /open-source/. Most /integrations/ pages cover both, with a Graphify (hosted) tab and a Graphify Local tab. Everything else applies to both.
> graphifyy release notes are published at https://github.com/Graphify-Labs/graphify/releases and https://graphify.com/changelog. The current package version is on PyPI (https://pypi.org/project/graphifyy/).
> The official site is https://graphify.com. These docs are https://docs.graphify.com.
> The local MCP server is the ten tools in the MCP tool reference and reads a graph on the machine. The hosted server is https://api.graphify.com/mcp (Streamable HTTP, OAuth, no API key). The JetBrains, ChatGPT, Codex, and Dots, and Vercel pages use the hosted server, not the ten-tool list. On pages with tabs, the Graphify (hosted) tab uses the hosted server and the Graphify Local tab uses the local skill or the ten-tool server.
> Read https://docs.graphify.com/llms.txt, then open one page's .md link. Use https://docs.graphify.com/llms-full.txt only when one page is not enough.

# Graphify Local: open-source code knowledge graph

> Graphify Local is the open-source graphifyy package. It builds a deterministic code knowledge graph on your machine, with no vector store and no hosted service.

Graphify Local turns a folder of code, docs, papers, images, or videos into a knowledge graph you can query from a terminal, a coding agent, or an MCP client. It runs on your machine and is published on PyPI as [`graphifyy`](https://pypi.org/project/graphifyy/) under the Apache-2.0 license.

Coding agents spend most of their context re-reading files to rediscover how a codebase fits together. Graphify Local parses the code once, records every function, class, import, and call as a node or an edge, and lets the agent ask the graph instead. On the Graphify repository itself, `graphify benchmark` reports about 127 times fewer tokens per question than reading the corpus.

> [!NOTE]
>
> **Use Graphify Local when:**
>
> * Your code can't leave your machine, or you want to run everything offline.
> * You want the graph as files (`graph.json`, `graph.html`, `GRAPH_REPORT.md`) that you can commit, diff, and export.
> * You want to script or extend the pipeline yourself.
>
> If you'd rather we build, host, and refresh graphs for your GitHub repositories, use [Graphify](https://docs.graphify.com/platform/quickstart.md).

## How it works

**1. Detect**

`graphify/detect.py` walks the folder, honours `.gitignore` and `.graphifyignore`, and sorts files into code, documents, papers, images, and video.

**2. Extract**

Code is parsed locally with tree-sitter grammars, so the structural graph is deterministic and needs no API key. Documents and media can optionally go through an LLM for semantic extraction.

**3. Resolve**

Calls, imports, and inheritance are bound across files by per-language resolvers. Edges that can't be bound to exactly one definition are marked `AMBIGUOUS` instead of guessed.

**4. Cluster and report**

Leiden community detection groups related nodes. Graphify then writes the graph, an interactive HTML view, and a Markdown report of hubs, communities, and suggested questions.

Every edge carries a confidence label: `EXTRACTED` (read from the source), `INFERRED` (derived by a resolver or an LLM), or `AMBIGUOUS` (several possible targets). See [How Graphify works](https://docs.graphify.com/concepts/architecture.md) for the full pipeline.

## What you get

```text theme={"theme":{"light":"github-light-default","dark":"github-dark-default"}}
graphify-out/
├── graph.json        Nodes, edges, and communities, used by the CLI and MCP server
├── graph.html        Interactive graph you open in a browser
├── GRAPH_REPORT.md   God nodes, communities, surprising connections, suggested questions
├── manifest.json     File hashes for incremental updates
└── cache/            Per-file AST cache
```

## Three ways to use it

| Path | You run | Best for |
| - | - | - |
| [Agent skill](https://docs.graphify.com/open-source/quickstart.md) | `graphify install`, then `/graphify .` in your agent | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, and every assistant `graphify install` supports |
| [CLI](https://docs.graphify.com/open-source/cli-quickstart.md) | `graphify extract`, `query`, `path`, `explain` | Terminals, scripts, CI |
| [MCP server](https://docs.graphify.com/open-source/mcp-server.md) | `graphify-mcp` over stdio or HTTP | Any MCP client, or a shared team server |

## Graphify Local and Graphify

Both build the same kind of graph. The difference is who runs it.

| | Graphify Local | Graphify |
| - | - | - |
| Where it runs | Your machine | Hosted at [app.graphify.com](https://app.graphify.com) |
| Setup | `pip install graphifyy` | Sign in and connect GitHub |
| Keeping graphs fresh | `graphify update`, `watch`, or git hooks | Rebuilt for you on push |
| Agent access | Local skill or `graphify-mcp` | Hosted MCP at `https://api.graphify.com/mcp` |
| Team features | Shared `graph.json` and a self-hosted MCP | Pull request reviews, wiki, memory, workspaces |

> **Is the package graphify or graphifyy?**
>
> The PyPI package is `graphifyy`, with two y's. The command it installs is `graphify`, plus `graphify-mcp` for the MCP server.

> **Does Graphify Local need an LLM?**
>
> No, not for code. Code extraction, resolution, clustering, and queries all run locally. An LLM is only used for documents, papers, images, video transcripts, and community names. Add `--code-only` to skip it entirely.

> **Does it use embeddings or a vector database?**
>
> No. Queries traverse the graph (breadth-first or depth-first) from nodes that match your question, then trim the result to a token budget.

> **Which Python versions are supported?**
>
> Python 3.10 or later.

## What's next

> **[Quickstart](https://docs.graphify.com/open-source/quickstart.md)**
>
> Install the skill and map a repository from your agent.

> **[MCP server quickstart](https://docs.graphify.com/open-source/mcp-server.md)**
>
> Serve the graph to any MCP client over stdio or HTTP.

> **[Try it in Graphify](https://docs.graphify.com/platform/quickstart.md)**
>
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