Analyzing a Go Codebase with gograph — Starting with Itself
1. The Static Context Dilemma in AI-Assisted Engineering Modern software engineering is increasingly co-authored by AI coding agents. Those agents need both textual search and structural evidence to navigate a repository efficiently. When an agent needs to understand how a function is used, it typically defaults to one of two inefficient strategies: Broad textual search: Useful for literals and non-Go content, but it also returns comments, test mocks, Markdown references, and unrelated same-name matches when the question is structural. Whole-file reads: Sometimes necessary, but often larger than the function or relationship needed for the immediate task. gograph adds a local, persisted Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) graph, with optional type-checked enrichment. It supports questions such as “show the indexed callers of this method” or “extract this function’s source block”. Its output remains static-analysis evidence with documented limits. ...