codewiki 0.4.0

Local-first code wiki platform with AST graph analysis, GraphRAG, and LiteLLM.

CodeWiki

简体中文

Single-user CodeWiki platform for AST-based code graph analysis, GraphRAG retrieval, source-grounded wiki generation, and LiteLLM-powered Q&A.

Current Scope

• FastAPI backend with repository management, analysis runs, GraphRAG, wiki, ask, graph, file, run, and settings APIs.
• React/Vite frontend with repository management plus graph explorer, wiki reader, ask, and settings pages.
• AST-backed code graph extraction for Python, TypeScript/TSX, JavaScript/JSX, Java, Go, Rust, C, C++, and C#.
• Deterministic graph edges for imports, exports, definitions, inheritance, implementations, calls, route handlers, source references, and configuration usage.
• GraphRAG retrieval with source chunks, optional embeddings, community summaries, and cached LLM runs.
• DeepWiki-style wiki generation with catalog planning, detailed page generation, source citations, automatic diagrams, multi-language translation, and incremental updates.
• Pure frontend wiki exports: interactive standalone HTML and Obsidian vault ZIP.
• Design notes live in docs/design.md.

Installation

Install the Python package from PyPI:

pip install codewiki
codewiki --help

Start CodeWiki after installation:

codewiki serve

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8000 for the Web UI. The Python package includes the built frontend; a source checkout is only needed for frontend development with Vite.

Docker

Build and run CodeWiki with Docker Compose:

docker compose up --build

Then open http://127.0.0.1:8000. The compose file persists the SQLite database and storage cache in Docker volumes, and mounts this checkout at /workspace/CodeWiki so you can register that path from the UI or CLI. To analyze another local repository, add another bind mount under /workspace in docker-compose.yml.

For LLM-backed wiki and Q&A features, pass CODEWIKI_LLM__* environment variables in docker-compose.yml or run with docker compose --env-file .env up --build.

Configure local environment variables with:

codewiki config
codewiki config --set CODEWIKI_LLM__DEFAULT__MODEL=openai/gpt-4.1
codewiki config --profile qa --model openai/gpt-4.1 --api-key "$OPENAI_API_KEY"
codewiki config --list

Wiki Workflow

1. Register and analyze a repository.
2. Build GraphRAG source chunks, optionally with embeddings.
3. Generate a wiki catalog.
4. Generate wiki pages from the catalog.
5. Use update/regenerate flows when code changes.

Wiki pages are generated from deterministic graph facts and retrieved source chunks. The page prompt enforces a gather/think/write workflow and includes ReadFile evidence so the model must stay close to real source files. Source references are validated before a page is promoted to generated; otherwise the page is saved as draft with validation errors.

Mermaid diagrams are generated server-side from validated graph facts. Invalid diagrams are filtered out instead of failing the whole page, so a bad graph block should not turn a good wiki page into a draft.

Wiki Languages

The base wiki language is generated first. Other languages are produced by translating the base catalog and pages while preserving slugs, source references, code identifiers, links, and Markdown structure.

Set configured translation languages in .env:

CODEWIKI_WIKI_BASE_LANGUAGE=en
CODEWIKI_WIKI_TRANSLATION_LANGUAGES=zh

The frontend wiki page has an English/Chinese language switch above the left catalog navigation. If a requested non-base language is missing, the backend generates the base wiki first and then translates it.

Wiki Export

The frontend wiki toolbar can export the currently selected language as:

• Interactive HTML: a standalone static page with catalog navigation, page switching, rendered Markdown, source sections, related pages, and Mermaid rendering.
• Obsidian vault: a ZIP containing Markdown pages, wiki links, source metadata, and minimal .obsidian settings.

Exports are built entirely in the browser from already-loaded wiki data and do not require a backend export API.

LLM Configuration

Run codewiki config or copy .env.example and fill in a default model profile:

cp .env.example .env

The default profile is used for every task unless a task-specific profile overrides it. This is the simplest "use one model for everything" setup:

CODEWIKI_LLM__MODE=sdk
CODEWIKI_LLM__DEFAULT__MODEL=provider/strong-coding-model
CODEWIKI_LLM__DEFAULT__PROVIDER_TYPE=
CODEWIKI_LLM__DEFAULT__ENDPOINT=
CODEWIKI_LLM__DEFAULT__API_KEY=
# Optional global output limit. Leave unset to use task defaults; 0 omits max_tokens.
# CODEWIKI_LLM__DEFAULT__MAX_TOKENS=0
CODEWIKI_LLM__TIMEOUT_SECONDS=120
CODEWIKI_LLM__MAX_RETRIES=3
CODEWIKI_LLM__CACHE_ENABLED=true

Each LLM task can override model, provider type, endpoint, API key, and max output tokens:

# Fast/cheap catalog planning. Raise this for large DeepWiki catalogs.
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__CATALOG__MODEL=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__CATALOG__PROVIDER_TYPE=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__CATALOG__ENDPOINT=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__CATALOG__API_KEY=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__CATALOG__MAX_TOKENS=12000

# Strong source-grounded wiki page generation
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__PAGE__MODEL=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__PAGE__PROVIDER_TYPE=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__PAGE__ENDPOINT=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__PAGE__API_KEY=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__PAGE__MAX_TOKENS=12000

# Translation
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__TRANSLATION__MODEL=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__TRANSLATION__PROVIDER_TYPE=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__TRANSLATION__ENDPOINT=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__TRANSLATION__API_KEY=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__TRANSLATION__MAX_TOKENS=12000

# Ask / QA
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__QA__MODEL=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__QA__PROVIDER_TYPE=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__QA__ENDPOINT=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__QA__API_KEY=
# Set 0 to avoid forcing max_tokens on streaming QA.
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__QA__MAX_TOKENS=0

# Embeddings, used when GraphRAG vector indexing is enabled
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__EMBEDDING__MODEL=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__EMBEDDING__PROVIDER_TYPE=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__EMBEDDING__ENDPOINT=
CODEWIKI_LLM__PROFILES__EMBEDDING__API_KEY=

Provider examples depend on LiteLLM. For OpenAI-compatible endpoints, set an endpoint and API key. For native LiteLLM providers, set PROVIDER_TYPE and model according to LiteLLM's provider naming.

Failed LLM provider calls are recorded in llm_run with status=error; API responses return a run_id where possible so failures can be traced without exposing API keys.

Development

# Install backend and frontend dependencies
make install

# Start FastAPI and Vite
make start

# Stop local dev servers on the configured ports
make kill

Default local URLs:

• Backend: http://127.0.0.1:8000
• Frontend: http://127.0.0.1:5173

Useful checks:

make lint
make test
make build

CLI

# Register or inspect repositories
codewiki repos add . --name my-repo
codewiki repos list
codewiki repos scan .

# Full analysis and GraphRAG
codewiki analyze .
codewiki graphrag build .
codewiki graphrag build . --embeddings

# Symbol and graph intelligence
codewiki graph search "AuthService"
codewiki graph callers generate_page
codewiki graph impact GraphRAGRetriever
codewiki graph explore "wiki page generation"
git diff --name-only | codewiki graph affected --stdin

# Wiki generation
codewiki wiki catalog .
codewiki wiki pages .
codewiki wiki update . --language en
codewiki wiki page overview .

# Incremental graph update, with wiki regeneration enabled by default
codewiki update .
codewiki watch .

# GraphRAG grounded Q&A
codewiki ask "How does the main workflow fit together?"
codewiki ask --repo my-repo "Where are wiki pages generated?"

# MCP server for local AI assistants
codewiki mcp
# or: codewiki-mcp

Most commands accept a repository id, id prefix, registered name, path, or Git URL. Use --json on CLI commands when machine-readable output is useful.

MCP Server

CodeWiki can run as a local stdio MCP server so AI assistants can use the analyzed repository graph and wiki as tools:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "codewiki": {
      "command": "codewiki",
      "args": ["mcp"],
      "env": {
        "CODEWIKI_DATABASE_URL": "sqlite+aiosqlite:///./data/codewiki.sqlite3"
      }
    }
  }
}

The MCP server exposes tools for repository registration/listing, AST analysis, GraphRAG index building and retrieval, LLM-backed Q&A, graph search/exploration, affected-file analysis, and generated wiki page reads.

HTTP API Highlights

Method	Path	Purpose
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/wiki/catalog?language=en	Generate a wiki catalog
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/wiki/pages/generate?language=en	Generate all wiki pages
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/wiki/pages/update?language=en	Incrementally update stale/missing pages
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/wiki/pages/{slug}/regenerate?language=en	Regenerate one page
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/wiki/translate	Translate catalog and pages
GET	/api/repos/{repo_id}/wiki?language=en	Read the wiki catalog and pages
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/ask	Ask a GraphRAG-grounded question
GET	/api/repos/{repo_id}/graph/search?q=...	Search indexed symbols
GET	/api/repos/{repo_id}/graph/callers?symbol=...	Find callers/references
GET	/api/repos/{repo_id}/graph/callees?symbol=...	Find callees/references
GET	/api/repos/{repo_id}/graph/impact?symbol=...	Analyze change impact
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/graph/explore	Build grouped source exploration context
POST	/api/repos/{repo_id}/graph/affected	Find affected files/tests/wiki pages

Supported AST Languages

Language	Parser	Extracted facts
Python	tree-sitter capture parser	imports, classes, functions, methods, decorators, calls, references, FastAPI-style endpoints
TypeScript / TSX	tree-sitter capture parser	imports/exports, classes, interfaces, type aliases, functions, methods, calls, route endpoints
JavaScript / JSX	tree-sitter capture parser	imports/exports, classes, functions, methods, calls, route endpoints
Java	tree-sitter capture parser	package/imports, classes, interfaces, records, enums, methods, constructors, inheritance, implementations, Spring-style endpoints
Go	tree-sitter capture parser	package/imports, structs, interfaces, type aliases, functions, receiver methods, calls, router-style endpoints
Rust	tree-sitter capture parser	imports, structs, enums, traits, impls, functions, methods, calls
C	tree-sitter capture parser	includes, structs, functions, calls
C++	tree-sitter capture parser	includes, classes, structs, functions, methods, inheritance, calls
C#	tree-sitter capture parser	usings, namespaces, classes, interfaces, methods, inheritance, calls

Notes

The core contract is that code facts come from deterministic scanners and AST parsers first. GraphRAG and LLM workflows consume those facts for retrieval, synthesis, and wiki generation rather than inventing structure.