Graphicle is a Rust program that maps your repository into a code graph and remembers your project's docs, decisions and past agent sessions. It gives coding agents cited excerpts from both, pointing to the exact files and lines. It runs on your machine with no API key, no account and no telemetry, and works with Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, VS Code, Claude Desktop and any MCP client.
Installation is handled through Homebrew (brew install graphicle-ai/tap/graphicle) or a curl install script. Running graphicle setup in a repository indexes it, builds the code graph and connects the coding agents it finds. Setup also enables session capture, directs Claude Code's searches to the code graph first, adds a short section to AGENTS.md and installs Git hooks that keep the project current. It lists every file it changes and backs each one up first, and graphicle disconnect reverses all of it. Native Windows support is not yet available; under WSL2 the Linux install should work but is untested.
Graphicle can be queried from the terminal with graphicle ask, which returns evidence excerpts such as the file and lines where tax is added to prices. Without a configured model it shows only the evidence; setting a model such as anthropic, openai or ollama adds written answers. Commands like graphicle graph affected "retry()" show what depends on a given symbol.
On a 31k-file Kubernetes repository, the 0.1.0 engine completed a code-only extract in 3 min 18 s, compared with 26 min 38 s for Graphify 0.9.88, producing the same graph in a single exploratory run. Memories proposed by an agent wait for the user's approval before being stored.
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