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I Tested Graphify on a Real Python Repo. Here's What Happened

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graphify has been all over my timeline this week: it went past 126k GitHub stars, got into Y Combinator and showed up on the Vercel Marketplace. The pitch is simple. Type /graphify in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, and your agent queries a graph of your code instead of reading files one by one.

"Saves tokens" is an easy claim to make and a hard one to check, so I installed it on a plain Linux box and pointed it at a real repo. No cloud trial, no API keys. Here's what happened.

What graphify actually is

graphify is an open-source (Apache-2.0) Python CLI plus an agent skill. It parses your project with tree-sitter and writes three files to graphify-out/:

  • graph.html, an interactive force-directed graph you open in a browser
  • GRAPH_REPORT.md, a summary with "god nodes", communities and surprising connections
  • graph.json, the full graph your agent queries through explain, path...

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