symgraph AGENTS.md

A development guide for symgraph, a Rust MCP server that builds a searchable graph of code symbols and their relationships.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when developing symgraph, indexing code, serving its MCP interface, running checks, or preparing a release.
Why use it?
It explains the project's structure, core concepts, and standard commands, reducing guesswork when building, testing, formatting, or releasing the server.

Instructions file for CodexOpenCode

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add instructions/grahambrooks/symgraph/agents-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grahambrooks/symgraph

Made for: Codex, OpenCode.

Per session 1,130 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,130 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.01130 $0.01130
Opus 5 $0.00565 $0.00565
Sonnet 5 $0.00226 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00113 $0.00113

Measured 2d ago against content hash a520b19ff44b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

symgraph AGENTS.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

AGENTS.md · 98 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 98 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent Development Guide

Quick reference for AI agents working in this Rust MCP server repository.

Quick Commands

Build/Test: make build | make test | make check | make fmt | make lint Run: cargo run -- index . | cargo run -- serve | cargo run -- serve --port 8080 Test: cargo test --lib | cargo test module:: | cargo test --test integration_test Release: make release (date-based version YYYY.M.D) | make release-dry-run (preview) Maintenance: make update | make outdated | make clean

Project Overview

symgraph: Semantic code intelligence MCP server building knowledge graphs for AI-assisted development.

Core Concepts:

  • Node: Code symbol (function, class, method, struct, etc.)
  • Edge: Relationship (calls, contains, imports, extends, implements)
  • Graph: Stored in SQLite .symgraph/index.db

Key Features: Fast symbol search, impact analysis, call graph navigation, AI context building

Module Structure:

  • main.rs: CLI entry, command routing (~126 lines)
  • server.rs: MCP server startup (stdio/HTTP)
  • lib.rs: Core indexing, file walking
  • types.rs: Node, Edge, Language enums
  • cli/: Command implementations, DB utilities
  • db/: SQLite CRUD, queries, transactions
  • extraction/: Tree-sitter parsing, symbol detection
  • graph/: Traversal algorithms (callers, callees, impact)
  • context/: AI context building
  • mcp/: Protocol, tool definitions, handlers

Data Flow: Source Files → Extraction (tree-sitter) → Database (SQLite) → Resolution (link refs) → Graph Queries → MCP Tools

Key Dependencies: rmcp (MCP), tree-sitter (parsing), rusqlite (DB), axum (HTTP), ignore (file walking)

Database: .symgraph/index.db with tables: files, nodes, edges, unresolved_refs Indexes on: nodes(name), edges(source_id), edges(target_id), files(path)

Languages: Rust, TypeScript/JavaScript, Python, Go, Java, C, C++ Add new: Edit src/extraction/languages.rs

Read the full file on GitHub · 98 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 98 lines · 1,130 tokens per session scan A a520b19ff44b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

symgraph AGENTS.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository grahambrooks/symgraph (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,130 tokens to every session, about $0.0056 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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