Graph-It-Live

See your codebase as a graph — in VS Code, your CLI, and your AI assistant.

Graph-It-Live analyzes imports, symbols, calls, cycles, unused exports, and change impact. Use it as a VS Code extension, a standalone CLI, or an MCP/native tool provider for GitHub Copilot and other AI clients. Analysis runs locally and returns evidence from your codebase.

Table of Contents

• What it does
• Quick start
• Features
• Standalone CLI
• AI integrations
• Configuration
• CI review gate
• Supported languages
• Documentation
• Development
• License

What it does

Graph-It-Live provides three views of a codebase:

View	Answers	Analysis layer
File graph	Which files import this file? What depends on this module?	Regex and AST parsing
Symbol view	Which functions and classes call each other in this file?	AST analysis
Live call graph	Which symbols call each other across files?	Tree-sitter and SQLite

Use the same graph data to navigate code, review refactors, generate codemaps, and give AI assistants focused context instead of entire source files.

Quick start

VS Code extension

Requirements: VS Code 1.96 or later. Install from the VS Code Marketplace or Open VSX.

1. Open a project.
2. Open the Graph-It-Live view from the Activity Bar.
3. Run Graph-It-Live: Show Dependency Graph from the Command Palette.
4. Click a file to open it, double-click it for the Symbol View, or use Show Call Graph for cross-file calls.

Supported projects include TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Rust, C#, Go, Java, Vue, Svelte, and GraphQL.

First useful actions

Goal	Action
Explore imports	Open the dependency graph and expand a file node
Inspect functions	Switch to Symbol View or double-click a file
Find callers	Open Show Call Graph with a symbol selected
Find reverse dependencies	Use Show Reverse Dependencies
Hide unused imports	Enable Filter Unused Dependencies
Refresh analysis	Run Refresh Graph or Force Graph-It-Live re-index

Features

File dependency graph

• Visualize file-to-file imports across a workspace.
• Detect circular dependencies and highlight cycles.
• Expand and collapse nodes as you explore.
• Open files directly from graph nodes.
• Find reverse dependencies with an indexed lookup.

Symbol View

Drill into TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, or Rust files to see functions, classes, variables, outgoing calls, incoming callers, and recursive calls. Click a symbol to navigate to its definition.

Live Call Graph

The Live Call Graph shows cross-file symbol relationships in a Cytoscape.js panel.

• Expand callers and callees with a depth from 1 to 5. A view shows at most 500 symbols, nearest hops first; a notice counts the hidden ones.
• Group symbols by folder.
• Number calls in invocation order.
• Highlight self-recursion and mutual recursion.
• Filter by symbol type or folder.
• Refresh automatically after file saves.