graphsight 0.2.0

See why your AI agent retrieved what it did — interactive graph viewer for agent retrieval traces. One command, zero dependencies, nothing leaves your machine.

graphsight

See exactly why your AI agent retrieved what it did.

Your agent answered a question. Which documents did it actually pull? What scores did they get? How are they connected to each other? Most stacks make you dig through logs to answer that. Graphsight renders the run as an interactive graph in your browser — one command, zero dependencies, nothing leaves your machine.

pip install graphsight
graphsight path/to/trace_state.json

What you get

• Every retrieved item as a typed node — PR, Service, Person, Ticket, Document, Repo, Library, Team, Tool — with its retrieval score.
• Relational paths between results — person → authored → PR → resolves → issue — the chain of evidence, not just a ranked list.
• An inspector on every node: underlying content, score, source link.
• The execution timeline of the run: each agent step, each retriever call, per-span timings, and which retrieval arm (vector / graph) produced the results.

Requirements

Python	≥ 3.10
Runtime dependencies	none (stdlib only)
Platforms	Windows, macOS, Linux
Browser	any modern browser

Usage

graphsight [trace] [--port PORT] [--no-browser]

Argument	Default	Description
trace	—	A trace_state.json file, or a directory of them (e.g. .graphsight/) to browse run history. Optional — omit to open the import page and drag-and-drop or paste JSON instead.
--port	4630	Local port to serve on.
--no-browser	off	Start the server without opening a browser window.

The server binds to 127.0.0.1 only and runs until you press Ctrl+C.

Run history

Point graphsight at a directory and it becomes a run browser — every trace listed by query and time, one click to open:

graphsight .graphsight/

The graphsight-langgraph capture() helper appends every agent run there automatically, so your debugging history accumulates with zero ceremony. Traces render with the retrieved vs. used split: items that surfaced in the answer highlighted, items retrieved but ignored dimmed — the two classic retrieval failures, visible at a glance.

Sharing traces with your team

A trace is one self-contained JSON file — no account or backend needed to share it:

• Send the file. A teammate with graphsight installed runs graphsight trace.json. Works in a DM, a ticket attachment, a CI artifact.
• Link it. A deployed Graphsight frontend opens any publicly reachable trace via …/memory/import?src=<url-to-json> — host the JSON on a gist or artifact store and share the link. (The host must allow cross-origin GETs; raw gists do.)
• Commit it. Trace files in the repo next to the incident or PR they explain make retrieval debugging part of the review record.

Producing traces

Graphsight renders any file matching its trace JSON contract. Current producers:

• graphsight-langgraph — instrument any LangGraph agent with a single callback handler, or trace a GitHub repository in one command:

  pip install "graphsight-langgraph[example]"
  graphsight-github-trace langchain-ai/langgraph "who fixed the recent streaming bugs?"
  graphsight graphsight_out/trace_state.json
  

• The TraceRAG engine — the graph-memory backend this project grew out of; its /api/trace responses are the same shape.

Adapters for LlamaIndex and raw OpenTelemetry spans are planned; all producers emit the same schema and render in this same viewer.

Writing your own producer

The minimum contract is small — a JSON object with:

{
  "query": "the question that was asked",          // required, string
  "graph": {
    "nodes": [{ "id", "label", "type", "score", "meta": { "snippet", "sourceUrl" } }],
    "edges": [{ "id", "source", "target", "relation", "confidence" }]
  },
  "steps":   [ /* execution timeline, optional */ ],
  "metrics": { "queryTimeSec": 0.004 }             // optional
}

Node positions are computed client-side; emitters never deal with layout. The complete schema and a reference emitter live in the graphsight-langgraph source.

Security and privacy

• The dependency list is empty by design: the UI is a bundled static build (Vite + React + React Flow) served by Python's stdlib http.server.
• Binds to 127.0.0.1 — not reachable from other machines.
• No accounts, no telemetry, no outbound network calls. Your traces stay on your disk.

Troubleshooting

Symptom	Cause / fix
Address already in use	Another process holds the port — pass --port 4631.
Browser doesn't open	Some environments (SSH, WSL, containers) can't launch one — start with --no-browser and open the printed URL yourself.
Bundled UI missing error	Broken installation — pip install --force-reinstall graphsight.
Page loads but trace doesn't	The JSON didn't match the contract — the import page shows the specific validation error.

Links

• Source & issue tracker: github.com/Kcodess2807/graphsight
• LangGraph adapter: graphsight-langgraph on PyPI
• Beta test script: BETA.md

License

MIT © Arush Karnatak