Rig

Rig

Watch your codebase become a constellation — and give your AI agent a map of it.

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Rig builds a local-first semantic knowledge graph of your project, renders it as an interactive map you can fly through, and exposes it to coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …) over MCP. Your agent stops grepping blindly and starts navigating — by structure, by meaning, and by what it's touched before.

Everything runs on your machine. No API key, no upload, nothing leaves your laptop.

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Quickstart

In any project directory:

npx rig-constellation

(Have Bun? bunx rig-constellation works too.) That's the whole thing. One command:

  ⬡ Rig — mapping my-project
  http://localhost:7491

  ✓ initialized  ./.rig
  ✓ map live    http://localhost:7491
  → 1/6 extract      ██████████████████ 212/212
  → 5/6 hubness      ████████████████░░
  ✓ indexed     1,204 nodes · 3,891 edges · 212 files · 36 skills
  ✓ wired       claude

  press Ctrl-C to stop the map.

It initializes .rig/, opens the live map first, then indexes your code so the graph assembles in the already-open browser tab in real time, and wires up whichever agent it detects. The map title and port are derived per project, so two checkouts can run side by side on stable, distinct ports. Re-run any time, or use the explicit subcommands below.

> The command is rig (alias: rig-constellation). Prefer a global install? > npm i -g rig-constellation (or bun install -g rig-constellation), then rig start. > Installed locally with npm i rig-constellation? The binary lives in node_modules/.bin — > run it with npx rig start (or install with -g to get rig on your PATH).

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What you get

• A map of your codebase. Files, symbols, calls, imports, and dependencies as a navigable graph — not a file tree.
• Magnetic pull. Ask "what's related to X" and get a ranked answer that blends graph distance, semantic similarity, and what's been active recently.
• Hubs. The structurally important anchors surface first, so a 5k-node graph stays legible.
• Dependency intelligence. "What version of X do I have?" and "what's declared but never imported?" become one-hop graph queries.
• Waypoints. Your agent drops durable markers at decisions and constraints that survive context-window compaction — so a new session picks up oriented.
• An MCP tool surface your agent calls directly: search, pull, callers/callees, impact, hubs, deps, and more.

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What your agent does differently

Without a map, an agent answers "what breaks if I change parseConfig?" by grepping the string and reading whatever files match — blind, lossy, and token-expensive.

With Rig it's one call:

rig_impact parseConfig
→ 7 transitive callers, ranked:
   loadSettings          calls · depth 1
   bootstrap             calls · depth 2
   __tests__/config…     tests · depth 1
   …

And "what else should I look at?" isn't a guess — rig_pull returns related anchors scored by graph distance, on-device embedding similarity, and recent activity, with the three components broken out so the ranking is explainable, not a black box:

rig_pull parseConfig
→ { node: "validateSchema", score: 0.81,
    components: { structural: 0.4, semantic: 0.9, recency: 0.7 } }

That ranked, self-explaining retrieval — not a flat grep dump — is the difference.

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Privacy & local-first

• Embeddings run locally via a small on-device model (bge-small). No API key required.
• The graph lives in .rig/rig.db in your project. rig auto-adds .rig/ to your .gitignore.
• Nothing is uploaded. The map UI is served on loopback only.

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Wiring your agent

bunx rig-constellation auto-detects and wires the agents you have installed. To wire one explicitly:

rig install claude      # also: cursor · codex · opencode · openrouter

This merges Rig's MCP server into the agent's config; the agent spawns rig serve --mcp on demand.

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Commands

| Command | What it does | |---|---| | rig start | One-shot: init + index + wire agent + open the live map | | rig index | Extract + write nodes (--include / --exclude ) | | rig sync | Incremental update | | rig query | CLI search | | rig serve --all | Start MCP and/or the web map (--mcp / --web / --auth) | | rig status | Index health | | rig doctor | Diagnose environment, db, model cache, agent configs | | rig export-docs | Render waypoints into a markdown doc tree |

Run rig --help for the full list.

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How it works

.contracts/ is the declarative source of truth (tools, anchors, migrations, events); bun run gen emits the matching code into generated/. The graph is plain SQLite. Retrieval is a single magnetic-pull scoring function over structural edges, on-device embeddings, and recency. The map UI is a force-graph over WebSocket.

• packages/core — the Rig class: DB, extraction, graph, embeddings, magnetic pull
• packages/mcp — MCP stdio server + tool dispatch
• packages/web — Fastify + WebSocket + React map UI
• packages/cli — the rig binary
• packages/contracts — defineToolContract & friends

See [docs/contracts.md](docs/contracts.md) to add a tool, [docs/integration.md](docs/integration.md) for the architecture, and [COMPATIBILITY.md](COMPATIBILITY.md) for the stability promise.

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Requirements

• Bun ≥ 1.1 (primary), or Node ≥ 20 (fallback).
• Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows.

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Contributing

Adding a tool means touching one file in .contracts/ and one implementation — the generator wires the rest. Start with [docs/contracts.md](docs/contracts.md), then [docs/integration.md](docs/integration.md) for where new ideas plug in. Stable tools are protected by a compatibility gate (bun run check:compat); see [COMPATIBILITY.md](COMPATIBILITY.md).

License

[Apache-2.0](LICENSE). Rig's extraction layer is derived from CodeGraph (MIT, © Colby Mchenry); those portions remain under their original MIT terms — see [LICENSE-CODEGRAPH.txt](LICENSE-CODEGRAPH.txt) and [NOTICE](NOTICE). With thanks.

Source & license

This open-source MCP server is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: Astralchemist
• Source: Astralchemist/rig
• License: Apache-2.0

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.