graphify-dotnet

graphify-dotnet

🔍 Build AI-powered knowledge graphs from any codebase. Understand structure you didn't know was there.

💡 Origin story — This project traces back to Andrej Karpathy's tweet on using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases: ingesting raw sources, compiling them into structured Markdown wikis, and navigating knowledge through graph views instead of keyword search. That idea inspired graphify by @safishamsi, which was then showcased by @socialwithaayan — and that's what kicked off this .NET port.

graphify-dotnet reads your files (code, docs, images), extracts concepts and relationships through AST parsing and AI semantic analysis, builds a knowledge graph with community detection, and exports interactive visualizations. Navigate codebases by structure instead of keyword search.

Quick Start

1. Install

dotnet tool install -g graphify-dotnet

2. Configure

graphify config

This launches an interactive wizard with three options:

• 📋 View current configuration — see what's set
• 🔧 Set up AI provider — pick Azure OpenAI, Ollama, Copilot SDK, or None (AST-only)
• 📂 Set folder to analyze — set your default project folder and export formats

Pick your AI provider (or skip it — AST-only extraction works with zero config), then set the folder to analyze.

3. Run

graphify run

That's it. Open graphify-out/graph.html in your browser to explore the interactive graph.

📖 New here? See the Getting Started guide for a step-by-step walkthrough.

Supported Languages

graphify detects and extracts structure from these file types:

No AI provider? No problem. AST-only extraction works with zero config and produces structural graphs from code — classes, functions, imports, and their relationships. AI providers add semantic extraction (conceptual connections, inferred relationships) but are completely optional.

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/elbruno/graphify-dotnet.git
cd graphify-dotnet
dotnet build graphify-dotnet.slnx
dotnet run --project src/Graphify.Cli -- run .

Documentation

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.

👋 About the Author

Made with ❤️ by Bruno Capuano (ElBruno)

• 📝 Blog: elbruno.com
• 📺 YouTube: youtube.com/elbruno
• 🔗 LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/elbruno
• 𝕏 Twitter: twitter.com/elbruno
• 🎙️ Podcast: notienenombre.com

Acknowledgments

• Andrej Karpathy's tweet on LLM-powered personal knowledge bases — the original idea that started the chain.
• This tweet by @socialwithaayan showcasing graphify by @safishamsi — which directly inspired this .NET port.

This project is a .NET 10 port of safishamsi/graphify, reimagined with C# idioms, .NET 10 features, and the Microsoft.Extensions.AI abstraction layer.