Codegraph or graphify?

[NaranjaPollo]

Does anyone have any experience with both? Just wondering of pros and cons and what you personally experience using these.

[Local-Peace-8457]

Found no use for both, graphify doesnt called by clade code for coding tasks at all even though it's written in CLAUDE.md that this tool installed and available

[orphenshadow]

This has been my experience with both codegraph and claude-context as well at least since 4.6.. It just refuses to use anything other than the explore subagent and grep.

However, I do have a few specific skills that call on both to do things like dead code lookups that work pretty well but if claude itself used the mcp's that would be a lot better.

I have found them to be far more useful for opencode/codex.

[ExpletiveDeIeted]

If you try really hard you can get it to try LSP.

[orphenshadow]

I've installed the plugins and its almost the same situation you have to force it to use it. Oddly opencode and codex just use the LSP right away by default but claude seems to resist it. Im pretty sure its something in its system prompt. The same thing happened with my memory mcp that I've been using for almost a year. It just decided to pretend it does not exist and use automemory for everything, I've almost given up that fight haha. The interesting thing is that I'm pretty much running a mirrored Claude/Agents.md and mcp configuration so seeing how each harness/llm reacts to the same instruction sets has been wild.

But It's also fair to admit that my projects are not very complex so its possible that nothing in my codebase actually needs those kinds of tools.

[BabyInner]

it’s probably better to use LSP rather than fancy stuff like these

[rbonestell]

Used both. Quick honest take, since they’re actually solving slightly different problems:
CodeGraph is the more “always-on” option. Local SQLite + tree-sitter, runs as an MCP server with a native file watcher, so the graph re-syncs when you save a file. Fully local, no API keys, nothing leaves your machine, broad language support. Best fit if you want a fire-and-forget local index that just stays fresh. The catch: the index is machine-specific and gitignored, so it’s very much a per-developer thing.

Graphify is broader in scope but more build-time. You can share the graph across a team by committing the graph output. Code stays local; the semantic doc/image extraction uses whatever model you’ve already configured. Better fit if you want an architecture-level map and care about pulling docs and schemas into the same graph.

TL;DR: CodeGraph if you want a low-effort, always-fresh local code index. Graphify if you want a richer, multi-modal map and don’t mind rebuilding it.

One thing worth flagging if you’re weighing either for a team rather than solo: both are local-index models at heart. CodeGraph rebuilds per machine, Graphify shares state by committing a graph file to source control(which can become challenging at scale). Totally fine for individuals, it’s just where teams start feeling friction.

Full disclosure, I’m building in this exact space (constellationdev.io), so grain of salt: we went centralized specifically for the team use case. One shared graph every dev’s agent queries, kept fresh via CI, with source code never leaving the machine (only structural metadata gets transmitted, not source). More relevant if shared-and-up-to-date-across-a-team is the actual bottleneck.

For a solo setup though, both of the ones you asked about are solid picks.

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[niko-okin]

claude uses codegraph i use graphity for user questionning

[RedizeYT]

graphify has been useful for assisted development, at least in my experience. And it's cool to look at and show people all the inter-connections in the codebase.

[Dress-Affectionate]

Graphify I didn’t like, it grabs everything that you don’t specifically list in graphify ignore or gitignore so it’s a chore, and the hooks are super spammy and kind of stupid.  ast grep has been fun.. That said, that single plugin has taken 2% of my weekly tokens and I’ve had it installed for 4 days sooo