code-review-graph vs graphify
Local-first code intelligence graph for AI coding tools: Tree-sitter AST graph + blast-radius analysis served over MCP, so agents read ~82x fewer tokens per review question. — versus — /graphify skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 20+ assistants: maps code, docs, PDFs and media into a local knowledge graph — tree-sitter AST, EXTRACTED/INFERRED edges, no vector store.
Both hand agents a tree-sitter graph to query instead of reading files. code-review-graph is an always-on MCP server tuned for review blast radius; graphify is an on-demand skill that also folds docs, PDFs and media into the same graph.
| code-review-graph | graphify | |
|---|---|---|
| Stars | 32k | 122k |
| Forks | 2.9k | 12k |
| Language | Python | Python |
| License | MIT | Apache-2.0 |
| Last activity | 10 days ago | yesterday |
| Topics | code-intel | code-intel, knowledge-graphs, skills |
| Curated connections | 7 | 5 |
code-review-graph — the curator's take
The rare benchmark-honest repo: it tells you the 528x number is the best case and its recall metric is circular. Install once, it configures 14 platforms (Codex, Claude Code, Cursor...). Reach for it on monorepos where review context is the token sink; skip on small repos where a grep costs less than the graph's own metadata.
graphify — the curator's take
Reach for graphify when your agent burns tokens re-reading a repo to answer 'how does X connect to Y': one run writes graph.json plus a GRAPH_REPORT.md, then `graphify query`, `path` and `explain` answer from the graph, and strict mode in Claude Code redirects the session's first raw file read to it. Code extraction is free and deterministic (tree-sitter, ~40 languages, Leiden communities, zero LLM credits); docs, PDFs and video cost model tokens for the semantic pass, so a docs-heavy corpus is not free. Every edge is tagged EXTRACTED or INFERRED — trust the first, verify the second. Skip it if you want an always-on MCP code server with blast-radius tooling (code-review-graph, codebase-memory-mcp) or symbol-level edits (serena): graphify is on-demand, and the background-sync version is the paid graphify.com platform. Disclosure: StackMap's own discovery layer runs on graphify.