understand-quickly (Python SDK)

A thin Python client for the understand-quickly registry of code-knowledge graphs.

pip install understand-quickly

• Sync client (zero runtime deps beyond httpx): Registry
• Async client (using httpx.AsyncClient): AsyncRegistry
• CLI: python -m understand_quickly or understand-quickly
• 60-second in-memory TTL cache by default.

Quick examples

from understand_quickly import Registry

reg = Registry()  # default registry: looptech-ai.github.io/understand-quickly

# 1. List all healthy entries.
entries = reg.list(status="ok")

# 2. Filter by format.
ua = reg.list(format="understand-anything@1")

# 3. Resolve an entry id to its graph body.
graph = reg.get_graph("Lum1104/Understand-Anything")

# 4. Map a GitHub URL back to its registry entry.
hit = reg.find_graph_for_repo("https://github.com/owner/repo")

# 5. Cross-graph concept search (uses stats.json + entry metadata).
results = reg.search("auth", scope="all")

Async equivalent

import asyncio
from understand_quickly import AsyncRegistry

async def main() -> None:
    async with AsyncRegistry() as reg:
        entries = await reg.list(status="ok")
        graph = await reg.get_graph(entries[0]["id"])
        print(len(graph.get("nodes", [])))

asyncio.run(main())

CLI

understand-quickly list [--status ok] [--format understand-anything@1] [--owner OWNER] [--tag TAG]
understand-quickly get-graph <entry_id>
understand-quickly find <github_url_or_owner/repo>
understand-quickly search <query> [--scope all|entries|concepts]
understand-quickly stats

JSON is emitted by default. Add --pretty for indented JSON (and a compact table for list). Both python -m understand_quickly ... and understand-quickly ... work after install.

Exit codes: 0 success, 1 not-found (get-graph, find), 2 HTTP/parse error, 64 usage error.

Environment variables

The base URL can also be passed explicitly: Registry("https://my-mirror.example/").

Public types

understand_quickly.types exports TypedDict shapes for the documents this SDK fetches:

• Entry — one registry entry (matches registry.json).
• Stats, StatsTotals, StatsKind, StatsLanguage, StatsConcept — stats.json shape.
• WellKnown, WellKnownRepo — .well-known/repos.json shape.
• SearchHit — single result from Registry.search().
• Graph — opaque dict, shape depends on entry["format"].

Everything is total=False so you can rely on entry.get("status") returning safely.

Development

cd python-sdk
python -m pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest -q
python -m build .

Release notes

See the project release notes on GitHub. Python SDK versions are tagged pysdk-vX.Y.Z.

License

Apache 2.0 — Copyright (c) 2026 Alex Macdonald-Smith. Registry data covered by the Understand-Quickly Data License 1.0.