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⚡ Knowledge Master

Your codebase's memory. A local knowledge graph that gives AI agents real understanding of your architecture — not just text search.

License: MIT Status: Stable Python 3.11+


Why

Every time you start a new AI chat, it forgets everything. You re-explain your architecture, conventions, dependencies. Knowledge Master gives your AI permanent, structured memory about your entire system.

Unlike flat RAG tools that return "chunks about X", Knowledge Master builds a graph — so it can answer "what breaks if I change X?" by traversing actual relationships.

What it does

  • 🔍 Semantic search across all your code, docs, and configs
  • 🕸️ Knowledge graph — relationships between services, people, repos, technologies
  • 💥 Blast radius — "what depends on this service/file/technology?"
  • 📏 Convention enforcement — detects and enforces your team's patterns
  • 🤖 MCP server — plugs directly into AI agents (Kiro, Claude, Cursor)
  • 🖥️ Web UI — search, browse, visualize your knowledge graph
  • 🔒 Local-first — nothing leaves your machine

Prerequisites

Dependency macOS Ubuntu/Debian Windows
Docker brew install colima && colima start or Docker Desktop sudo apt install docker.io docker-compose-plugin Docker Desktop
Ollama brew install ollama && ollama serve curl -fsSL https://ollama.com/install.sh | sh Ollama installer
Python 3.11+ brew install python@3.12 sudo apt install python3.12 python3.12-venv python.org

Quick Start

# Install (pick one)
pipx install knowledge-master         # recommended (isolated, clean)
pip install knowledge-master           # or with pip

# Or via Homebrew (macOS)
brew install pipx && pipx install knowledge-master

# Or from source
git clone https://github.com/subzone/knowledge-master.git
cd knowledge-master
python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -e .

# One command setup
km start

# Index your first repo
km index ~/path/to/your/project

# Search
km search "authentication flow"

# Check blast radius
km blast-radius postgres

# Start web UI with graph visualization
km serve

Requirements: Docker, Ollama, Python 3.11+

Features

Semantic Search with Graph Context

$ km search "how does auth work"
┌────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
│ Score   Source                Context              Preview              │
├────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
│ 0.847   src/auth/service.py   repo:myapp, by:Alex  JWT token validat... │
│ 0.791   docs/auth.md          repo:myapp           Authentication f...  │
└────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘

Blast Radius Analysis

$ km blast-radius auth-service
💥 Blast radius: auth-service
├── ⚙️ user-service (Service, via DEPENDS_ON)
├── ⚙️ payment-service (Service, via DEPENDS_ON)
├── 📦 frontend (Repo, via USES_SERVICE)
└── 👤 Alex (Person, via AUTHORED)

4 entities affected

Convention Enforcement

$ km check-conventions ~/my-project
   src/ directory (structure)
   separate test directory (testing)
   snake_case files (file-naming)
   Repository pattern (design-pattern)

1 convention(s) violated

Web UI & Graph Visualization

$ km serve
Knowledge Master UI  http://127.0.0.1:9999

Interactive force-directed graph showing your entire knowledge topology:

  • 📦 Repos (blue) → 🔧 Technologies (red)
  • ⚙️ Services (orange) → Dependencies
  • 👤 People → Authorship
  • 📏 Conventions (purple)

MCP Integration (AI Agents)

Add to your Kiro/Claude agent config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "knowledge": {
      "command": "km-server"
    }
  }
}

Your AI agent gets these tools:

  • search — semantic search with graph context
  • blast_radius — dependency analysis
  • check_conventions — verify code follows team patterns
  • index_repo — add new repos to the knowledge base

Architecture

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                  Your AI Agent                    │
│              (Kiro / Claude / Cursor)             │
└────────────────────┬────────────────────────────┘
                     │ MCP Protocol
┌────────────────────▼────────────────────────────┐
│              Knowledge Master                    │
│                                                  │
│  ┌──────────┐  ┌────────────┐  ┌────────────┐  │
│  │  Search  │  │Blast Radius│  │ Conventions│  │
│  └────┬─────┘  └─────┬──────┘  └─────┬──────┘  │
│       │               │               │         │
│  ┌────▼───────────────▼───────────────▼──────┐  │
│  │            FalkorDB (Graph + Vector)       │  │
│  │                                           │  │
│  │  [Repo]──USES_TECH──▶[Tech]              │  │
│  │    │                                      │  │
│  │    ├──DEFINES_SERVICE──▶[Service]         │  │
│  │    │                      │               │  │
│  │    ├──FOLLOWS──▶[Convention]              │  │
│  │    │                                      │  │
│  │  [Person]──AUTHORED──▶[Document]          │  │
│  │                          │                │  │
│  │                    [Chunk + Embedding]     │  │
│  └───────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
│                                                  │
│  ┌───────────────────────────────────────────┐  │
│  │         Ollama (nomic-embed-text)          │  │
│  └───────────────────────────────────────────┘  │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Commands

Command Description
km start Boot Docker + pull embedding model
km stop Stop containers
km index <path> Index a git repo or docs directory
km search <query> Semantic search with re-ranking
km blast-radius <target> Multi-layer dependency analysis
km safe-to-change <target> Risk assessment (safe/risky/dangerous)
km who-owns <file> File ownership (git blame, recency-weighted)
km check-conventions <path> Verify code follows detected patterns
km connect <source> Pull from external MCP (email, Slack)
km setup <tool> Auto-configure MCP for AI tools
km watch <path> File watcher with auto re-index
km upgrade Migrate graph schema
km prune Remove stale/orphaned data
km changelog Generate CHANGELOG.md
km list Show indexed repos, techs, stats
km remove <name> Remove a source
km serve Start web UI at http://127.0.0.1:9999
km status Check system health

What gets extracted automatically

When you index a repo, Knowledge Master detects:

Category Examples
Tech stack Languages, frameworks, packages from dependency files
Services From docker-compose.yml and K8s manifests
Dependencies Service-to-service relationships
Conventions File naming (snake_case/kebab-case), folder structure, design patterns
People Git commit authors and file ownership
Code structure Functions, classes, chunked by AST-aware boundaries

Feature Status

Feature Status Notes
Semantic search + re-ranking ✅ Stable Two-pass retrieval with confidence scoring
Knowledge graph (FalkorDB) ✅ Stable Nodes, edges, vector index, schema versioning
CLI (14 commands) ✅ Stable start, index, search, blast-radius, safe-to-change, who-owns, etc.
MCP server (8 tools) ✅ Stable search, blast_radius, safe_to_change, who_owns, check_conventions, index, status
REST API ✅ Stable /api/v1/ with OpenAPI docs
Web UI + graph viz ✅ Stable htmx + D3, search, file browser, graph
Git repo indexing ✅ Stable Parses code, extracts authors, detects tech stack
Multi-language static analysis ✅ Stable Python (ast), TypeScript, Go, Rust (tree-sitter)
Blast radius (multi-layer) ✅ Stable Imports → services → people, confidence levels
safe-to-change risk assessment ✅ Stable Blast radius + test coverage = risk score
Git blame ownership ✅ Stable Recency-weighted (3x/2x/1x)
Schema migrations ✅ Stable Auto-migrate, km upgrade
Deduplication ✅ Stable Content hash, skips unchanged
Convention detection ⚡ Basic Folder structure + file naming patterns
Email connector (ms-365) 🧪 Experimental Works, requires external MCP setup
km watch 🧪 Experimental Polling-based, may change

Legend: ✅ Stable — ⚡ Basic (works, limited scope) — 🧪 Experimental (may change)

Comparison

Feature Knowledge Master Generic RAG GitHub Copilot Glean
Graph relationships Partial
Blast radius analysis
Convention enforcement
Local-first (no cloud)
MCP integration
Multi-repo intelligence Partial
Cost Free Free $19/mo $15-30/mo

Development

# Run tests
pytest

# Lint
ruff check knowledge_master/

# Run MCP server directly
python -m knowledge_master.server

# Run CLI directly
python -m knowledge_master.cli status

Security

Knowledge Master runs entirely on your machine. No data leaves localhost.

  • All ports bound to 127.0.0.1 (not accessible from LAN)
  • Ollama runs locally — no cloud API calls
  • MCP server uses stdio (no network exposure)
  • Optional API key auth for REST endpoints
# Enable API key auth
export KM_API_KEY=$(openssl rand -hex 32)
km serve

See SECURITY.md for full security model, risks, and hardening guide.

Troubleshooting

Issue Fix
km start fails with "Docker not running" Start Docker: colima start (macOS) or sudo systemctl start docker (Linux)
km start fails with "Ollama not found" Install Ollama from https://ollama.com and run ollama serve
km index is slow First run downloads the embedding model (~274MB). Subsequent runs are fast.
Web UI shows "Connection refused" Make sure containers are running: km start
Search returns poor results Index more content. Quality improves with more context in the graph.
Port 9999 already in use Use km serve --port 8888

License

MIT

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