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ContextGraph is live — 10K repos analyzed in public beta

We launched quietly two months ago and the response blew us away. Here's what we learned, what surprised us, and what's coming next.

6 min read · ContextGraph team

How we parse 5,000-file repos in under 3 seconds

Static analysis at scale is hard. We tried three different approaches before landing on the one that actually works at the file counts we see from monorepos like Next.js and VS Code.

9 min read · Engineering

Why AI explanations are only useful when grounded in actual code

We tried generating module summaries with just filenames and dependency counts. The results were fluent-sounding garbage. Here's how we fixed it.

7 min read · AI & product

Mapping the Next.js codebase — a walkthrough

We ran our own tool on Next.js 14 and documented what we found: 4,821 files, the App Router vs Pages Router split, and why the build system is the scariest part of the repo.

12 min read · Case study

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