Changing a codebase is risky when you can’t see its shape.
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Changing a codebase is risky when you can’t see its shape. Compass is a local-first Rust workbench that turns a repository into a directed, queryable knowledge graph for builders navigating unfamiliar codebases. It helps you trace architecture, dependencies, and change impact before editing by building a local structural graph of symbols, files, communities, relationships, and evidence. Key features: • Architecture maps – inspect communities, architecture reports, god-node detection, and interactive HTML views • Dependency paths – follow bounded caller, callee, reverse-dependency, and affe
Posted by Dan Kornas (99.1k followers) 1 h ago · 2 likes · 456 views · view the original post on X. Kept by the Dev Radar as Terminal & editor.
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