evolution-engine 0.3.0

Git-native codebase evolution indexer

Evolution Engine

AI coding tools write correct code that silently breaks your architecture. Evolution Engine detects the drift, shows you the exact commit, and lets your AI fix it — with evidence.

Calibrated on 90+ open-source repos. 6.18M signals analyzed. Your code never leaves your machine.

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The Problem

AI coding assistants (Cursor, Copilot, Claude Code, Codex) generate code that passes tests and looks correct in isolation. But over time, they introduce architectural drift — scattered file changes, unexpected dependency growth, broken structural patterns — that no single tool catches.

Evolution Engine is a drift detector for AI-assisted development. It learns what is structurally normal for your repository, flags when development patterns shift, identifies the exact commit where drift started, and hands evidence to your AI agent to fix it.

The Loop: Detect → Evidence → Fix → Verify

  evo analyze .          What changed? Is it unusual for THIS repo?
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  evo investigate .      AI identifies the root cause commit + drift pattern
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  evo fix .              AI proposes a fix based on evidence, not guesswork
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  evo verify .           Did the fix resolve the drift? Or did it make it worse?
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  evo accept . 1 2       Expected change? Accept it. Move on.

This is the full cycle no other tool offers: detect drift, provide evidence, let AI fix it, verify the fix worked, and let humans decide what's intentional.

How It Works (5-Phase Pipeline)

Your Repo → Phase 1 (Record events) → Phase 2 (Detect deviation from YOUR baseline)
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            Phase 5 (Advisory) ← Phase 4 (Match known patterns) ← Phase 3 (Explain)
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               HTML Report + PR/MR Comments
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              HUMAN decides: investigate / fix / accept

Phase	What It Does
Phase 1	Records immutable events — commits, builds, deps, releases
Phase 2	Computes per-repo baselines, flags statistical deviation (MAD/IQR)
Phase 3	Explains signals in human language — PM-friendly, evidence-backed
Phase 4	Matches against 44 validated patterns from 90+ repos
Phase 5	Prioritized advisory with severity, evidence, and action items

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Quick Start

pip install evolution-engine
evo analyze .

Three Integration Paths

Path	Command	When to use
CLI Explorer	evo analyze .	Start here -- manual analysis, reports, investigation
Git Hooks	evo init . --path hooks	Automate locally -- analyze on every commit or push
GitHub Action	evo init . --path action	Automate in CI -- PR comments with risk badges

Start with the CLI. Graduate to hooks when you trust the output. Add the GitHub Action for team-wide coverage. See QUICKSTART.md for the full walkthrough.

# Path 1: CLI Explorer (start here)
evo analyze .                    # Run the full pipeline
evo report . --open              # Visual HTML report
evo status                       # Detected adapters and run info

# Path 2: Git Hooks (automate locally)
evo init . --path hooks          # Install post-commit hook
evo watch .                      # Or poll for commits continuously

# Path 3: GitHub Action (CI)
evo init . --path action         # Generate workflow file, then push

# All paths at once
evo init . --path all

Free tier covers Path 1 (CLI). Pro unlocks Path 2 (hooks) and Path 3 (CI integration), plus AI investigation, AI fix loop, and inline PR review comments.

Founding Member Program

We're looking for 50 developers who use AI coding tools daily. In exchange for monthly feedback, you get founding member pricing: $9.50/month for 3 months (regular: $19/month). Use code FOUNDING50 at checkout.

Environment Variables

# .env file (all optional)
GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_xxx            # Unlocks CI, deployment, security adapters
GITLAB_TOKEN=glpat-xxx          # Unlocks GitLab CI, releases adapters
EVO_LICENSE_KEY=xxx              # Pro features (free tier works without)
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-ant-xxx    # For evo investigate / evo fix (Pro)

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Source Families & Auto-Detection

The adapter registry automatically detects available data sources in three tiers:

Tier 1 — File-Based (zero config, always works offline)

Family	Detected By	What It Observes
Version Control	.git/	Commits, file changes, structural coupling, co-change novelty
Dependency Graph	requirements.txt, package-lock.json, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock	Dependency count, churn, transitive depth
Configuration	*.tf, docker-compose.yml	Resource count, config churn
Schema / API	openapi.yaml, *.graphql	Endpoint growth, field changes

Tier 2 — API-Enriched (optional token unlocks more)

Family	Token	What It Observes
CI / Build Pipeline	GITHUB_TOKEN	Build durations, failure rates
Deployment	GITHUB_TOKEN	Release cadence, pre-releases, asset count
Security Scanning	GITHUB_TOKEN	Vulnerability count, severity, Dependabot alerts

Tier 3 — Community Plugins (pip-installable)

Already using tools like Snyk, SonarQube, Jenkins, ArgoCD, GitLab CI, Datadog, or PagerDuty? Evo doesn't replace them — it learns from them. Install or build an adapter to feed their data into the pipeline, and Evo will correlate it with your git history, dependencies, and other sources to discover cross-tool patterns.

pip install evo-adapter-jenkins    # Jenkins CI adapter
pip install evo-adapter-snyk       # Snyk security adapter
pip install evo-adapter-argocd     # ArgoCD deployment adapter
evo analyze .                      # Auto-detected!

Plugins are auto-discovered via Python entry_points. If an adapter for your tool doesn't exist yet, you can build one or request one (evo adapter request).

Historical Replay

The Git History Walker extracts dependency, schema, and config files from git history, creating temporal evolution timelines (not just current-state snapshots). This enables Phase 4 to correlate dependency changes with CI failures, deployments, and other events over time.

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CLI Commands

# Core Analysis
evo analyze [path]               # Detect adapters, run full pipeline
evo analyze . --families git,ci  # Override auto-detection
evo report [path]                # Generate HTML report from last run
evo status                       # Show detected adapters and event counts
evo investigate [path]           # AI root cause analysis (Pro)
evo fix [path]                   # AI fix-verify loop (Pro)
evo fix [path] --residual        # Iteration-aware prompt (current vs previous)
evo verify <advisory>            # Compare current state to a previous advisory

# Setup & Integration
evo init [path]                  # Detect environment and suggest integration path
evo init . --path hooks          # Install git hooks for auto-analysis
evo init . --path action         # Generate GitHub Action workflow
evo init . --path all            # Set up all integration paths
evo setup [path]                 # Interactive configuration wizard
evo setup --ui                   # Browser-based settings page
evo watch [path]                 # Watch for commits and auto-analyze
evo watch . --daemon             # Run watcher in background
evo hooks install [path]         # Install git hooks
evo hooks uninstall [path]       # Remove git hooks
evo hooks status [path]          # Show hook status

# Patterns & Knowledge Base
evo patterns list                # Show discovered patterns
evo patterns pull [path]         # Fetch community patterns from registry
evo patterns push [path]         # Share anonymized patterns (requires privacy_level >= 1)
evo patterns export              # Export anonymized pattern digests
evo patterns import <file>       # Import community patterns
evo patterns packages            # List pattern packages + cache status
evo patterns new <name>          # Scaffold a pattern package
evo patterns validate <path>     # Validate a pattern package
evo patterns publish <path>      # Publish pattern package to PyPI
evo patterns add <package>       # Subscribe to a pattern package
evo patterns remove <package>    # Unsubscribe from a pattern package
evo patterns block <name>        # Block a pattern package
evo patterns unblock <name>      # Unblock a pattern package

# Adapter Ecosystem
evo adapter list                 # Show detected adapters with trust badges
evo adapter discover [path]      # Find available adapters for your tools
evo adapter validate <class>     # Run 13-check certification
evo adapter validate <class> --security  # + security scan
evo adapter security-check <mod> # Standalone security scan
evo adapter guide                # How to build an adapter
evo adapter new <name> --family ci   # Scaffold a pip-installable package
evo adapter prompt <name> --family ci  # Generate AI prompt for building
evo adapter request <description>     # Request an adapter from the community
evo adapter block <name> -r "reason"  # Block an adapter locally
evo adapter unblock <name>       # Unblock a blocked adapter
evo adapter check-updates        # Check PyPI for plugin updates
evo adapter report <name>        # Report a broken/malicious adapter

# Configuration & History
evo config list                  # Show all settings
evo config set <key> <val>       # Update a setting
evo license status               # Check license tier
evo history list [path]          # Show run history
evo history diff [r1 r2]         # Compare two runs

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Building Adapters

The Evolution Engine supports a plugin ecosystem. Third-party adapters are pip-installable packages that auto-register via Python entry_points.

Quick Path

# Scaffold a complete pip package
evo adapter new jenkins --family ci

# Or generate an AI prompt and paste it into your coding assistant
evo adapter prompt jenkins --family ci --copy

Certification

Before publishing, validate your adapter passes all 13 contract checks:

cd evo-adapter-jenkins
pip install -e .
evo adapter validate evo_jenkins.JenkinsAdapter

Adapters pass 13 structural checks + security scanning before certification.

Learn More

evo adapter guide    # Full tutorial with contract details

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Pattern Knowledge Base

The Evolution Engine discovers cross-family patterns automatically:

• Pearson correlation: deviation magnitudes track together (|r| >= 0.3)
• Lift-based co-occurrence: deviations co-occur more than chance (lift >= 1.5)
• Presence-based: metric distributions differ when events co-occur (Cohen's d >= 0.2)

Patterns progress through scopes: local (this repo) -> community (shared anonymously) -> confirmed (local + community match).

Community patterns are distributed through two redundant channels:

• Registry (real-time) — patterns pushed by users are immediately available via codequal.dev/api
• PyPI packages (durable) — periodic snapshots published as evo-patterns-community, auto-fetched without pip install

If the registry is unavailable, PyPI packages still work. Both are checked automatically on evo analyze.

Pattern Distribution

# Auto-fetch happens on every `evo analyze` — no manual install needed
evo analyze .
#   Imported 25 pattern(s) from community registry
#   Imported 25 pattern(s) from community packages

# Pull/push patterns from the community registry
evo patterns pull .
evo patterns push .   # requires: evo config set sync.privacy_level 2

# Add a third-party pattern package to your sources
evo patterns add evo-patterns-web-security

# Block an unwanted package
evo patterns block evo-patterns-untrusted

# Build and publish your own pattern package
evo patterns new my-patterns
# ... edit patterns.json ...
evo patterns validate evo-patterns-my-patterns
evo patterns publish evo-patterns-my-patterns

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Project Structure

evolution-engine/
├── evolution/
│   ├── cli.py                     # Click-based CLI (evo command)
│   ├── orchestrator.py            # Pipeline orchestration (detect → P1-P5)
│   ├── registry.py                # 3-tier adapter auto-detection
│   ├── phase1_engine.py           # Phase 1: Observation
│   ├── phase2_engine.py           # Phase 2: Baselines (MAD/IQR)
│   ├── phase3_engine.py           # Phase 3: Explanations (template-based)
│   ├── phase4_engine.py           # Phase 4: Pattern discovery
│   ├── phase5_engine.py           # Phase 5: Advisory
│   ├── knowledge_store.py         # SQLite knowledge base
│   ├── kb_export.py               # Anonymized pattern export/import
│   ├── kb_security.py             # Import validation (XSS, injection, traversal)
│   ├── pattern_registry.py        # Auto-fetch pattern packages from PyPI
│   ├── pattern_validator.py       # Pattern package validation
│   ├── pattern_scaffold.py        # Pattern package scaffolding
│   ├── report_generator.py        # Standalone HTML report generator
│   ├── investigator.py            # AI investigation (evo investigate, Pro)
│   ├── fixer.py                   # AI fix-verify loop (evo fix, Pro)
│   ├── adapter_validator.py       # 13-check adapter certification
│   ├── adapter_scaffold.py        # Package scaffolding + AI prompt gen
│   ├── license.py                 # License tier gating
│   ├── data/
│   │   ├── universal_patterns.json  # Bundled universal patterns
│   │   ├── pattern_index.json       # Known pattern packages
│   │   └── pattern_blocklist.json   # Blocked pattern packages
│   └── adapters/
│       ├── git/                   # Version Control (+ Git History Walker)
│       ├── ci/                    # CI / Build Pipeline (GitHub Actions)
│       ├── testing/               # Test Execution (JUnit XML)
│       ├── dependency/            # Dependency Graph (pip, npm, go, cargo, bundler)
│       ├── schema/                # Schema / API (OpenAPI)
│       ├── deployment/            # Deployment (GitHub Releases)
│       ├── config/                # Configuration (Terraform)
│       └── security/              # Security Scanning (Trivy, Dependabot)
├── tests/
│   ├── conftest.py                # Shared fixtures
│   ├── unit/                      # 1500+ unit tests
│   │   ├── test_phase2_deviation.py
│   │   ├── test_phase4_cooccurrence.py
│   │   ├── test_phase5_advisory.py
│   │   ├── test_knowledge_store.py
│   │   ├── test_registry.py
│   │   ├── test_adapter_validator.py
│   │   ├── test_adapter_scaffold.py
│   │   ├── test_kb_export.py
│   │   ├── test_kb_security.py
│   │   ├── test_license.py
│   │   ├── test_report_generator.py
│   │   └── adapters/              # Lockfile parser tests
│   └── integration/
│       └── test_pipeline_e2e.py   # Full pipeline integration test
├── scripts/
│   └── aggregate_calibration.py   # Cross-repo pattern aggregation
├── docs/
│   ├── ARCHITECTURE_VISION.md     # Constitution
│   ├── IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md     # Roadmap
│   ├── PHASE_*_CONTRACT.md        # Phase contracts (2, 3, 4, 5)
│   ├── PHASE_*_DESIGN.md          # Phase designs (2, 3, 4, 5)
│   ├── ADAPTER_CONTRACT.md        # Universal adapter contract
│   └── adapters/                  # 8 family contracts
├── pyproject.toml                 # Package config (entry point: evo)
└── .env                           # Environment config (optional)

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Why Now

AI coding tools are generating more code than ever. Teams ship faster — but structural quality is invisible until something breaks. EE provides the missing feedback loop: a guardrail that tells you (and your AI) when development patterns drift from what's normal for your project.

Calibrated on 90+ open-source repos, 6.18 million SDLC signals, and 2.1 million commits. 44 validated cross-signal patterns. 1.6% false positive rate.

Open-Core Model

Open Source (MIT)	Proprietary (BSL 1.1)
All adapters	Phase 2-5 engines
CLI, registry, orchestrator	Knowledge store
Phase 1 engine
KB export/import/security
Report generator
Adapter scaffold & validator

The open adapter ecosystem ensures anyone can connect new data sources. The analysis engines are the proprietary core.

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Documentation

See docs/README.md for the full documentation structure and authority hierarchy.

Key documents:

• Architecture Vision — why the system exists and how it works
• Implementation Plan — what's done, what's next
• Adapter World Map — all 8 source families

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Principles

1. Observation precedes interpretation
2. History is immutable; interpretation is disposable
3. Determinism beats intelligence
4. Local baselines over global heuristics
5. Multiple weak signals beat one strong opinion
6. Absence of signal is not evidence of safety
7. Humans are escalated to, not replaced
8. Evidence enables action

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License

Evolution Engine uses a dual-license model:

Component	License	File
CLI, adapters, plugins, GitHub Action	MIT	LICENSE-MIT
Core analysis engine (Phases 2-5)	BSL 1.1	LICENSE
Community patterns	CC0-1.0	—

The BSL 1.1 license permits non-production use without a commercial license. Production use requires a Pro subscription. On 2029-02-20 the core engine automatically converts to MIT.