codegraph

A guide for using CodeGraph, a map of a codebase that records files, code elements, and how they connect.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find definitions, callers, dependencies, signatures, related source code, and paths through the application.
Why use it?
It helps answer structural questions—such as what calls a function or what a change could affect—more directly than searching text alone.

Cursor rule for Cursor

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 rules/vzwjustin/advisor/codegraph
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vzwjustin/advisor

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 762 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 762 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 $0.00762 $0.00762
Opus 5 $0.00381 $0.00381
Sonnet 5 $0.00152 $0.00152
Haiku 4.5 $0.00076 $0.00076

Measured yesterday against content hash afc24704996e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codegraph 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 yesterday.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • codegraph — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
.cursor/rules/codegraph.mdc · 40 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 40 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CodeGraph

This project has a CodeGraph MCP server (codegraph_* tools) configured. CodeGraph is a tree-sitter-parsed knowledge graph of every symbol, edge, and file. Reads are sub-millisecond and return structural information grep cannot.

When to prefer codegraph over native search

Use codegraph for structural questions — what calls what, what would break, where is X defined, what is X's signature. Use native grep/read only for literal text queries (string contents, comments, log messages) or after you already have a specific file open.

Question Tool
"Where is X defined?" / "Find symbol named X" codegraph_search
"What calls function Y?" codegraph_callers
"What does Y call?" codegraph_callees
"How does X reach/become Y? / trace the flow from X to Y" codegraph_trace (one call = the whole path, incl. callback/React/JSX dynamic hops)
"What would break if I changed Z?" codegraph_impact
"Show me Y's signature / source / docstring" codegraph_node
"Give me focused context for a task/area" codegraph_context
"See several related symbols' source at once" codegraph_explore
"What files exist under path/" codegraph_files
"Is the index healthy?" codegraph_status

Rules of thumb

  • Answer directly — don't delegate exploration. For "how does X work" / architecture questions, answer with 2-3 codegraph calls: codegraph_context first, then ONE codegraph_explore for the source of the symbols it surfaces. For a specific flow ("how does X reach Y") start with codegraph_trace from→to — one call returns the whole path with dynamic hops bridged — then ONE codegraph_explore for the bodies; don't rebuild the path with codegraph_search + codegraph_callers. Codegraph IS the pre-built index, so spawning a separate file-reading sub-task/agent — or running a grep + read loop — repeats work codegraph already did and costs more for the same answer.
  • Trust codegraph results. They come from a full AST parse. Do NOT re-verify them with grep — that's slower, less accurate, and wastes context.
  • Don't grep first when looking up a symbol by name. codegraph_search is faster and returns kind + location + signature in one call.
  • Don't chain codegraph_search + codegraph_node when you just want context — codegraph_context is one call.
  • Don't loop codegraph_node over many symbols — one codegraph_explore call returns several symbols' source grouped in a single capped call, while each separate node/Read call re-reads the whole context and costs far more.
  • Index lag: the file watcher debounces ~500ms behind writes; don't re-query immediately after editing a file in the same turn.

Read the full file on GitHub · 40 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. yesterday First seen · 40 lines · 762 tokens per session scan A afc24704996e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

codegraph is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository vzwjustin/advisor (10 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 762 tokens to every session, about $0.0038 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 2026-08-31.