Graphify

Graphify-Labs' Graphify, which R21 adapted for Windows. It turns a codebase and its docs, schemas and configs into a queryable knowledge graph using local deterministic AST parsing — every edge explained, no vector store, no embedding step.

What deterministic parsing buys

The usual way to make a codebase searchable by an assistant is to embed it and retrieve by similarity. That works until you need an answer that is structural rather than topical: what calls this, what breaks if it changes, what is the path from the route to the query. Similarity search answers those with things that read like the answer.

An AST-derived graph answers them with edges. It is also reproducible — the same repository produces the same graph, so a wrong answer is a bug you can find rather than a retrieval that happened to rank badly today.

Credit, stated precisely

The upstream tool is Graphify-Labs' work. R21 maintains a Windows adaptation, and the skill in our workspace declares itself graphify-windows for that reason. Both halves of that sentence matter, and neither is an achievement worth blurring into the other.

Two attributions that were wrong internally

This entry exists partly to correct R21's own record, because the site's whole premise is that claims survive being checked — including ours.

• It is not by "Chase AI." That is the person whose video covered the tool. A section heading in R21's internal wiki turned coverage into authorship, and it was repeated from there more than once. Sourcing a project's author from a video about the project is how this happens.
• A "~60K stars" figure circulated internally. It was accurate to the date of that recording and to nothing since. Star counts here are fetched at verification time or omitted; they are never carried across from a note.

Neither error was caught by re-reading the note. Both were caught by querying the registry, which is why the build now requires it. The same conflation runs the other way too — see Karpathy Skills, which this was repeatedly mistaken for.

Verified against the GitHub API on 2026-08-23: Apache-2.0, 109,902 stars, owner type Organization. The 2026-08-20 check recorded 108,622 — three days, 1,280 stars, which is the argument for fetching rather than quoting.