Navigating large codebases is hard. Tools like grep find text, but they can't tell you structure. They can't show you call chains, identify cross-module bridges, or surface the "god nodes" that everything depends on.
ENTER GLYPH
Glyph indexes your source code into a SQLite knowledge graph using tree-sitter AST parsing. It answers the questions that slow you down:
# Where is X defined?
glyph find myproject sendEmail
# Most-connected symbols
glyph godnodes myproject
# Call chain traversal
glyph path myproject "webhookHandler" "sendEmail"
# Cross-file bridges
glyph bridges myproject
# Generate PROJECT_MAP.md
glyph map myprojectPERFORMANCE
Indexed against the Boottify platform (2,525 source files):
- 31,348 symbols extracted
- 11,090 edges resolved
- First scan: ~30 seconds
- Incremental (3 files changed): ~120ms
- LLM cost: $0.00
WHY NOT GRAPHIFY?
We tried Graphify — an ambitious tool that combines AST with LLM extraction. But in practice, LLM extraction fails silently, there are no incremental updates, and the value prop evaporates for TypeScript/Python codebases. Glyph is the answer: fast, reliable, and free.
