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
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:
| Category |
Languages |
| Code |
C#, Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, Go, Rust, Java, C, C++, Ruby, Kotlin, Scala, PHP, Swift, R, Lua, Shell, PowerShell |
| Config |
YAML, JSON, TOML, XML |
| Docs |
Markdown, Plain Text, reStructuredText, AsciiDoc |
| Media |
PDF, PNG, JPEG, WebP, GIF, SVG |
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 .
NuGet Packages
Documentation
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See LICENSE file for details.
👋 About the Author
Hi! I’m ElBruno 🧡, a passionate developer and content creator exploring AI, .NET, and modern development practices.
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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.
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