central-code-knowledge-graph 0.1.3

Central, multi-repo code knowledge graph for AI agents — Neo4j + Tree-sitter + MCP.

central-code-knowledge-graph

Stop re-reading. Start querying.

AI coding tools re-read your entire codebase on every task. ckg fixes that. One server indexes every repo in your org with Tree-sitter across 26 languages, stores the structural map as a Neo4j property graph, keeps it fresh via incremental ingest + webhooks, and serves precise context to your AI assistant via MCP so it reads only what matters.

One server that:

• ingests many repositories (not just one) and keeps them incrementally fresh
• stores them as a Neo4j property graph (File, Class, Function, Module + CONTAINS, DEFINES, HAS_METHOD, CALLS, IMPORTS)
• exposes REST, GraphQL, MCP/JSON-RPC, and a ckg CLI
• supports structural queries (callers, callees, imports, blast radius, downstream dependencies), full-text search, and semantic vector search
• generates an architecture map with coupling warnings (cyclic deps, god modules, SDP violations) every ingest
• secures every endpoint with scoped API tokens (argon2id-hashed)
• runs as a single docker compose up

Why

Need	How this server delivers
Rock-solid, won't fall over	Stateless API + workers; Neo4j/Postgres/Redis run with healthchecks + restart: unless-stopped; horizontal scale via --scale worker=N
Fast relationship search for AI agents	Native graph DB (Cypher) + Lucene FTS + vector index — all in Neo4j
Multi-language	Tree-sitter parsers (23): Python, JS/TS (incl. JSX/TSX → React, Angular), Rust, Go, Java, Ruby, C, C++, C#, Kotlin, Scala, Swift, PHP, Solidity, Dart, R, Perl, Lua, Zig, PowerShell, Julia, Nix. Extraction wrappers (3): Vue, Svelte (delegates <script> to JS/TS), Jupyter/Databricks .ipynb (concatenates code cells, dispatches by kernel). Pluggable — one file under ckg/parsers/ adds another language
Precise cross-file edges	Opt-in LSP pass (CKG_LSP_ENABLED=true) upgrades CALLS edges with language-server-resolved targets. Pyright today; rust-analyzer / gopls / ts-server / jdtls planned. Graph stays functional with no LSP installed
Fast updates	Incremental ingest (--incremental): sha-diffs files against the graph, only re-parses what changed. Full reparse stays available as --full
Context for AI tools	Built-in MCP HTTP server → Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code drop in
Two query surfaces	REST (/v1/*) for simple calls + GraphQL (/v1/graphql) for composed traversals; both use the same API token
CLI for automation	ckg Typer CLI: register, ingest, query, search
Spec-driven	Auto-generated OpenAPI at /docs; GraphiQL UI at /v1/graphql; ADRs under docs/adr/
Whole-codebase index	One Neo4j graph spans all registered repos
Neo4j-backed	Functions, classes, files, imports, calls all stored as labeled nodes + typed relationships
Secure	API tokens with scopes (admin, repo:write, repo:read); hashed at rest

Supported languages

Tree-sitter parsers (23): Python · JavaScript (incl. JSX → React) · TypeScript (incl. TSX → Angular) · Rust · Go · Java · Ruby · C · C++ · C# · Kotlin · Scala · Swift · PHP · Solidity · Dart · R · Perl · Lua · Zig · PowerShell · Julia · Nix

Extraction wrappers (3): Vue & Svelte SFCs (delegate <script> to JS/TS) · Jupyter / Databricks .ipynb (concatenate code cells, dispatch by kernel language)

Pluggable — adding another language is one file under ckg/parsers/ and one line in the registry.

Architecture

                      ┌──────────────┐
   AI agents ───MCP──▶│              │
   CLI (ckg) ──REST──▶│   FastAPI    │──▶ Auth (API tokens, scopes)
   Web UI ────GQL───▶ │              │──▶ Audit log
                      └──────┬───────┘
                             │
            ┌────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┐
            ▼                ▼                             ▼
     ┌────────────┐   ┌─────────────┐              ┌───────────────┐
     │ Neo4j 5    │   │ Postgres    │              │ Redis         │
     │ graph +    │   │ repos +     │              │ cache + queue │
     │ vector +   │   │ tokens +    │              └───────┬───────┘
     │ FTS        │   │ runs +      │                      │
     └────────────┘   │ audit       │              ┌───────▼───────┐
                      └─────────────┘              │ Celery workers│
                                                   │  - clone      │
                                                   │  - parse      │
                                                   │  - embed      │
                                                   │  - write graph│
                                                   └───────┬───────┘
                                                           │
                                                   ┌───────▼───────┐
                                                   │ Tree-sitter   │
                                                   │ parsers       │
                                                   │ Py / JS / TS  │
                                                   │ (Rust/Ruby/   │
                                                   │  Go/Java soon)│
                                                   └───────────────┘

Full design rationale: docs/adr/0001-architecture.md.

Quickstart

1. Prerequisites

	Required	Notes
Docker	Docker Desktop (macOS / Windows) or Docker Engine + Compose v2 (Linux)	Must be running before step 3. Confirm with docker info.
RAM	8 GB free	Neo4j wants 2 GB, sentence-transformers ~500 MB on first warmup
Disk	~3 GB free	Base images (Neo4j, Postgres, Redis, Python, Node) total ~2 GB. Plus your repo clones under the repo_data volume.
Network	Outbound HTTPS	First boot pulls images from Docker Hub + npm + PyPI
Python	3.11+ (host)	Only if you want to install the CLI on your laptop. Not needed otherwise — make up runs everything in containers.

2. Clone and configure

git clone https://github.com/ajankurjain/central-code-knowledge-graph.git
cd central-code-knowledge-graph
cp .env.example .env

Replace every change-me-* in .env with strong randoms — the snippet below generates a full, ready-to-go .env for local dev in one shot:

python3 - <<'PY'
import secrets, base64, os
subs = {
    "change-me-please-bootstrap-token": secrets.token_urlsafe(32),
    "change-me-please-fernet-key":     base64.urlsafe_b64encode(os.urandom(32)).decode(),
    "change-me-neo4j-password":        secrets.token_urlsafe(24),
    "change-me-postgres-password":     secrets.token_urlsafe(24),
}
env = open(".env").read()
for k, v in subs.items():
    env = env.replace(k, v)
open(".env", "w").write(env)
PY
chmod 600 .env

⚠️ Keep .env out of git — it's already in .gitignore, the pre-commit hook (scripts/audit-secrets.sh) refuses any commit that contains it.

3. Start the stack

Make sure Docker Desktop is running first (docker info should succeed), then:

make up
# or: docker compose up -d --build

First boot takes 5–10 minutes — it pulls ~2 GB of base images and builds the api / worker / web / beat images locally. Subsequent make up runs are ~10 seconds.

Confirm everything came up healthy:

docker compose ps
# all containers should show "running" and (healthy):
# ckg-api-1, ckg-beat-1, ckg-neo4j-1, ckg-postgres-1, ckg-redis-1, ckg-web-1, ckg-worker-1

Health check from outside:

curl http://localhost:8080/readyz
# {"ready":true,"checks":{"neo4j":true,"postgres":true,"redis":true},"version":"0.1.3"}

URLs:

Service	URL
Web UI	http://localhost:3000
API (Swagger UI)	http://localhost:8080/docs
GraphQL (GraphiQL)	http://localhost:8080/v1/graphql
Neo4j Browser	http://localhost:7474 (login neo4j / value of NEO4J_PASSWORD from .env)
Postgres	localhost:5433 (mapped off default port to avoid clashes)
Redis	localhost:6379

4. Sign in

Grab the bootstrap token from .env:

grep ^CKG_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN .env | cut -d= -f2-

Then either:

a) Use the web UI — open http://localhost:3000/login, paste the token, click Sign in. The Dashboard lights up.

b) Use the ckg CLI:

# From PyPI (light install — CLI only, talks to the Docker server):
pip install central-code-knowledge-graph

# Or pipx for an isolated install:
pipx install central-code-knowledge-graph

# Or editable install from a checkout for development:
pip install -e '.[dev]'

# Then:
export CKG_SERVER=http://localhost:8080
ckg login --token "$(grep ^CKG_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN .env | cut -d= -f2-)"
ckg status        # should print graph counts

The bootstrap token has admin scope and is meant for one-time setup — mint a scoped token and use that going forward:

ckg token create my-laptop --scope repo:read --scope repo:write
# copy the printed `ckg_…` token, then:
ckg login --token ckg_xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

5. Ingest your first repo

# Pick a local repo to index. `file:///abs/path` clones-in-place, no network.
ckg repo register my-repo file:///Users/you/code/my-repo --branch main

# Run a full ingest.
ckg repo ingest    my-repo --full
ckg repo runs      my-repo                 # watch progress; a small repo finishes in seconds

# Verify the graph populated.
ckg graph stats
# → {"nodes": 3288, "edges": 6676, "repos": 1, "files": 80}  (example)

# Search.
ckg search keyword  "ingest pipeline"
ckg search semantic "where do we parse Tree-sitter trees?"

# Structural queries.
ckg graph callers    my-repo my.module.foo --depth 2
ckg graph blast      my-repo src/foo/bar.py        # files that break if bar.py changes
ckg graph downstream my-repo src/foo/bar.py        # files bar.py depends on

You can do the same from the web UI under Repos → Register → fill the form, then click ingest Δ or full reparse. Watch progress on the repo detail page (auto-refreshes while a run is in flight).

5b. Or pull an entire org / group / workspace at once

Paste a single URL — GitHub org/user, GitLab group/user, Bitbucket workspace, or a JSON/YAML manifest — and ckg discovers every accessible repo, registers them, and queues a full ingest for each.

# Public org, anonymous
ckg source add https://github.com/orgs/anthropics

# Private org with a Personal Access Token (example: read from env)
export CKG_SOURCE_TOKEN="$GH_PAT"
ckg source add https://github.com/orgs/acme --include-forks

# GitLab group (incl. subgroups)
ckg source add https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org

# Bitbucket workspace (token format: "username:app-password")
ckg source add https://bitbucket.org/atlassian --token "$BB_USER:$BB_APP_PASSWORD"

# Manifest URL (JSON or YAML list)
ckg source add https://example.com/all-repos.yaml

ckg source list          # see what you've added
ckg source repos 1       # repos discovered for source 1
ckg source sync 1        # re-discover; queues ingests for newly-added repos
ckg source delete 1 --yes  # CASCADE — drops every repo + graph data this source created

PATs are encrypted at rest with Fernet (key in CKG_SECRET_KEY). They never appear in repos.url — the worker injects them into the clone URL at fetch time.

5c. Keep the graph fresh — polling + webhooks

Two ways to keep ingested repos up-to-date without manual triggers. Polling uses a Celery Beat scheduler (one extra Compose service); webhooks are push-driven by GitHub / GitLab / Bitbucket.

# Polling
ckg source schedule 1 30m       # re-discover source 1 every 30 minutes
ckg repo   poll     my-repo 5m  # incremental ingest of my-repo every 5 minutes

# Webhooks (returns the secret + receiver URL — paste both into the provider)
ckg source webhook  1 --enable

Provider setup:

Provider	Where	Field
GitHub	repo / org Settings → Webhooks	Payload URL = <your-server>/v1/webhooks/<source_id>; Content type: application/json; Secret = the printed value; tick just the push event
GitLab	project Settings → Webhooks	URL = same as above; Secret token = the printed value; tick Push events
Bitbucket	workspace Webhooks → Add	URL = <your-server>/v1/webhooks/<source_id>?secret=<paste>; trigger on Repository push

GitHub uses HMAC-SHA256 of the body, GitLab a shared-token header, Bitbucket Cloud the URL-embedded secret. The same /v1/webhooks/<id> endpoint detects the provider from headers automatically.

6. Browse it in the UI

Open http://localhost:3000, paste an API token, and explore:

• Dashboard — node/edge/repo/file counts; repo list
• Repos — register repos, queue incremental or full ingests, watch run status
• Sources — paste a GitHub org / GitLab group / Bitbucket workspace / manifest URL and bulk-add every repo it exposes
• Search — keyword (Lucene FTS) or semantic (vector) across all (or one) repos
• Graph — force-directed call graph for any function, callers + callees up to depth 4

The UI is a static Next.js bundle served from the web container; the browser hits the API directly using the bearer token kept in localStorage.

7. Hook up your editor

Editor	Guide
Cursor	integrations/cursor/README.md
VS Code (Copilot Chat / Cline / Roo Code)	integrations/vscode/README.md
Claude Code	integrations/claude-code/README.md

Day-2 operations

make logs                 # tail every service
make restart              # restart api + worker only
docker compose stop       # park everything; data volumes persist
make up                   # bring it back
make clean                # WARNING: removes volumes — wipes graph + Postgres
make psql                 # psql shell inside the postgres container
make neo4j-shell          # cypher-shell inside the neo4j container

Troubleshooting

Things that bit me during local setup — keep this open the first time you run.

Symptom	Diagnosis / fix
docker: command not found	Docker Desktop isn't on PATH. macOS shortcut: export PATH="/Applications/Docker.app/Contents/Resources/bin:$PATH".
docker info fails / "Cannot connect to the Docker daemon"	Docker Desktop is installed but not running. Launch the Docker app and wait ~10s.
make up errors with neo4j password required	You skipped step 2 — .env doesn't exist (or still has change-me-* placeholders for the strict-required vars). Re-run the Python one-liner in step 2.
ckg-web-1 stays in Created state and never starts	The image was never built. Run docker compose build web && docker compose up -d web.
ckg-neo4j-1 flaps Restarting with Unrecognized setting. No declared setting with name: PASSWORD	Old compose file. Pull main — fixed in v0.1.1 by renaming the healthcheck env vars to CKG_HEALTHCHECK_*.
API container loops with TypeError: APIRouter.__init__() got an unexpected keyword argument 'graphiql'	strawberry-graphql renamed the arg. Fixed in v0.1.1. Pull main.
Worker / beat crash with exec: "celery": executable file not found in $PATH	Dockerfile didn't install [server] extras. Fixed in v0.1.1. Pull main + docker compose build --no-cache worker beat.
Ingest reports files_skipped for every file, files_parsed: 0	tree-sitter-language-pack 1.x compatibility issue. Fixed in v0.1.1 by pinning to 0.7-0.9. Pull main + rebuild api/worker.
GitHub README badge stuck on a stale version	GitHub's camo proxy caches images by URL. Bump the URL slightly (e.g. change cacheSeconds=N to a different N) to force a refetch.
Forgot the bootstrap token	grep ^CKG_BOOTSTRAP_TOKEN .env | cut -d= -f2-
Want to wipe the graph and start over	make clean && make up && python … (regenerate .env). Note: this also drops the Postgres data, so all minted tokens go too.
Forgot which port is which	All ports are configurable via .env (CKG_API_PORT, CKG_WEB_PORT). Defaults: 8080 / 3000 / 7474 (Neo4j) / 5433 (Postgres) / 6379 (Redis).
Run integration tests against the live stack	docker compose exec api pytest tests/integration/ -q (after make up).

What the graph looks like

(Repo)-[:CONTAINS]->(File)-[:DEFINES]->(Class)-[:HAS_METHOD]->(Function)
                          -[:DEFINES]->(Function)-[:CALLS]->(Function)
                          -[:IMPORTS]->(Module|File)

Function nodes carry a embedding vector property indexed for cosine similarity. Names + docs feed Lucene full-text indexes. So one Cypher store answers all three styles of query (structural / keyword / semantic).

API surface (short)

Full reference: docs/api.md.

Verb	Path	Purpose
GET	/healthz	Liveness
GET	/readyz	Readiness (per-store)
POST	/v1/tokens	Mint a token (admin)
GET	/v1/tokens	List tokens (admin)
DELETE	/v1/tokens/{id}	Revoke (admin)
POST	/v1/repos	Register a repo
GET	/v1/repos	List repos
POST	/v1/repos/{id}/ingest	Queue ingest
GET	/v1/repos/{id}/runs	Ingest history
GET	/v1/graph/stats	Graph counts
GET	/v1/graph/callers_of	Transitive callers
GET	/v1/graph/callees_of	Transitive callees
GET	/v1/graph/imports_of	Imports for a file
GET	/v1/graph/blast_radius	Files affected if this file changes (upstream callers)
GET	/v1/graph/downstream_dependencies	Files this file depends on (outgoing callees)
GET	/v1/graph/file	Symbols in a file
GET	/v1/search/keyword	Lucene FTS
GET	/v1/search/semantic	Vector cosine
POST	/v1/mcp	MCP JSON-RPC for IDEs
POST	/v1/graphql	GraphQL endpoint (open in browser for GraphiQL UI)

Releases

Current: v0.1.3 on PyPI · full notes at Releases.

Version	Highlights
v0.1.3	Self-hosted GitLab support (gitlab_instance kind + bring-your-own-base-URL). Worker now scrubs <scheme>://user:pw@… userinfo and bare GitHub / GitLab PAT shapes before persisting clone errors, so a failed git clone https://oauth2:glpat-…@host/path no longer leaks the token into ingest_runs.error. credentialed_clone_url_for_repo falls back to a host-aware token injector when the source's kind is unknown to the running worker. Per-source live progress bar on /sources driven by a new GET /v1/sources/{id}/progress endpoint (indexed / queued / running / failed counts + last-sync / last-ingest timestamps + 5 s auto-poll while in flight). New ckg.reconcile_stuck_ingests beat task every 60 s — re-publishes orphaned queued rows (DB-vs-broker desync) and reaps zombie running rows so the progress bar never silently freezes. Searchable repo combobox on /repos, /arch, /graph with INDEXED / NOT INDEXED badges + refresh icon. Dashboard and /repos table now paginated (10 / 25 per page) with id / url / language filter. /graph shows top-20 most-connected functions as click-to-fill entry points when no qname is set — backed by GET /v1/graph/entry_points — plus a back-to-functions button. tree-sitter>=0.25.2,<0.26 (csharp grammar v15 ABI). python parser detects async either as the node type OR as a child keyword. lua parser covers modern (function_declaration, local_function) and legacy node types.
v0.1.2	Per-repo PAT for cloning private repos (POST /v1/repos {token} + PUT …/credentials + Credentials panel in the web UI + ckg repo register --token / ckg repo credentials). Idempotent ADD COLUMN IF NOT EXISTS migration so existing installs pick up new columns on restart. Per-row ingest feedback on the /repos page. Runs-table error column now collapsible with full text. Web register form auto-slugifies with live preview. tree-sitter>=0.24,<0.25 (csharp grammar v15).
v0.1.1	Live-verified runtime fixes: Dockerfile installs [server] extras so celery is on the worker's PATH; Neo4j healthcheck creds exposed via CKG_HEALTHCHECK_* (was conflicting with Neo4j's NEO4J_*-as-setting parsing); strawberry-graphql graphql_ide= arg compatibility; tree-sitter-language-pack pinned to the 0.x line where the parser objects still expose .parse().
v0.1.0	Initial release.

Upgrade:

pip install --upgrade central-code-knowledge-graph
# or, in a Docker checkout:
git pull && make build && make restart

Roadmap

• Phase 1 — Foundation, auth, Python/JS/TS ingest, REST + MCP, CLI
• Phase 2 — Incremental updates (per-file sha diff), GraphQL endpoint, Rust/Go/Java/Ruby parsers
• Phase 3 — C/C++ parsers; opt-in LSP precision pass (pyright today; rust-analyzer / gopls / ts-server / jdtls planned)
• Phase 4 — Next.js web UI: token login, dashboard, repo management, search (keyword + semantic), force-directed function call-graph viz
• Phase 5 — Multi-tenant orgs/users, k8s/Helm, OpenTelemetry, Neo4j Causal Cluster

Development

Backend:

pip install -e '.[dev]'
pytest -q
ruff check ckg

Web UI:

cd web
npm install --legacy-peer-deps
NEXT_PUBLIC_CKG_API=http://localhost:8080 npm run dev
# open http://localhost:3000

Project layout:

ckg/
├── api/        # FastAPI app + routes (REST + GraphQL + MCP)
├── auth.py     # API tokens, principal, scopes
├── cli/        # `ckg` Typer CLI
├── config.py   # Pydantic settings
├── db/         # neo4j / postgres / redis clients + schema
├── lsp/        # Opt-in LSP precision pass (Phase 3)
├── parsers/    # tree-sitter parsers, one per language
├── services/   # ingest, embeddings, lsp_resolve
└── worker/     # Celery app + tasks
web/            # Next.js 15 + Tailwind + react-force-graph-2d (Phase 4)
docker/         # API + worker + web Dockerfiles
docs/           # ADRs, deployment, API
integrations/   # cursor / vscode / claude-code MCP snippets
tests/          # pytest

Security

• API tokens are 32-byte URL-safe random strings prefixed ckg_, never stored in plaintext — only argon2id hashes are persisted.
• The bootstrap token (.env) is your only way in on day 0; rotate it immediately after minting a scoped token.
• All non-health endpoints require a token; CORS is restricted to CKG_CORS_ORIGINS.
• .env is git-ignored. Do not commit it. Do not paste tokens into chats.

If you find a security issue, please open a private vulnerability report on GitHub.

Pre-commit credential audit

A small audit script refuses to commit credentials, IDE-assistant configs (.claude/, CLAUDE.md, .mcp.json, .cursor/, .continue/, .aider*, .windsurf/), or files matching common secret patterns (GitHub PAT, OpenAI key, AWS access key, Slack token, JWT, PEM private key):

./scripts/audit-secrets.sh

# install as a git pre-commit hook (recommended):
ln -sf ../../scripts/audit-secrets.sh .git/hooks/pre-commit

License

MIT — see LICENSE.