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gitnexus-explorer

From NousResearch

Index a codebase with GitNexus and serve an interactive knowledge graph via web UI + Cloudflare tunnel.

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NousResearch/hermes-agent
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optional-skills/research/gitnexus-explorer/SKILL.md

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# GitNexus Explorer

Index any codebase into a knowledge graph and serve an interactive web UI for exploring
symbols, call chains, clusters, and execution flows. Tunneled via Cloudflare for remote access.

## When to Use

- User wants to visually explore a codebase's architecture
- User asks for a knowledge graph / dependency graph of a repo
- User wants to share an interactive codebase explorer with someone

## Prerequisites

- **Node.js** (v18+) — required for GitNexus and the proxy
- **git** — repo must have a `.git` directory
- **cloudflared** — for tunneling (auto-installed to ~/.local/bin if missing)

## Size Warning

The web UI renders all nodes in the browser. Repos under ~5,000 files work well. Large
repos (30k+ nodes) will be sluggish or crash the browser tab. The CLI/MCP tools work
at any scale — only the web visualization has this limit.

## Steps

### 1. Clone and Build GitNexus (one-time setup)

```bash
GITNEXUS_DIR="${GITNEXUS_DIR:-$HOME/.local/share/gitnexus}"

if [ ! -d "$GITNEXUS_DIR/gitnexus-web/dist" ]; then
  git clone https://github.com/abhigyanpatwari/GitNexus.git "$GITNEXUS_DIR"
  cd "$GITNEXUS_DIR/gitnexus-shared" && npm install && npm run build
  cd "$GITNEXUS_DIR/gitnexus-web" && npm install
fi
```

### 2. Patch the Web UI for Remote Access

The web UI defaults to `localhost:4747` for API calls. Patch it to use same-origin
so it works through a tunnel
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