AgentMap is a TypeScript/JavaScript repository mapping tool that identifies code dependencies with 100% precision using the actual TypeScript compiler, outperforming grep-based approaches by 40 percentage points. It provides both a CLI and MCP server for agents to query relevant code without context waste, operating entirely locally with no vector databases or external APIs.
Stop your coding agent reading the wrong files. Compiler-grade TS/JS repo map — 100% precision on blast radius vs grep's 60%, measured on public repos. CLI + MCP server, fully local, no vector DB.
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agentmap
Your agent burns most of its context just finding code. This gives it the answer in one line.
npx @raymondchins/agentmap --relates lib/db/schema.ts
relates: lib/db/schema.ts (pr 0.073744)
dependents (21): lib/types.ts, lib/utils.ts, lib/db/queries.ts,
components/chat/message.tsx, app/(chat)/api/chat/route.ts, …
Every file on that list really imports it. grep gets 40% of them wrong.
💸 What it saves
Token cost of the hidden first step in every agent task — find the relevant code —
on a real 154-file Next.js app (vercel/ai-chatbot, sha 2becdb4):
| The agent needs to know… | Reading files | agentmap | Saved |
|---|---|---|---|
| Does a helper for this already exist? | 14,740 | 19 | 99.9% |
| Load the whole repo into context | 150,281 | 1,127 | 99.3% |
| What breaks if I change this file? | 81,038 | 616 | 99.2% |
| Where is this symbol defined? | 1,950 | 20 | 99% |
| What files make up this feature? | 6,121 | 1,025 | 83.3% |
| Give me a repo overview | 3,065 | 1,127 | 63.2% |
| What does this one file import? | 583 | 517 | 11.3% |
| All 7 combined | 257,778 | 4,451 | 98.3% |
Holds on zod too (367 files, 99.2%) and
taxonomy (125 files, 96.0%).
Captured output, pinned shas → benchmark/RESULTS.md
🎯 …and it's still right
Fewer tokens is worthless if they're the wrong ones. Separate eval, ground truth derived live from real repos:
| agentmap | git grep |
|
|---|---|---|
| What depends on this file? | 100% precision | 59.9% precision |
| Where is this defined? (top-1) | 100% | 32% |
| Where is this defined? (top-3) | 100% | 80% |
| Tokens to find a definition | 1.9× fewer | — |
n=42 dependents / n=75 definitions across zod, zustand, hono. Re-run: npm run eval · method → EVAL.md
⚡ The five commands
| You want | Run | Saves |
|---|---|---|
| "Do we already have this?" | agentmap --find formatCurrency |
99.9% |
| "What breaks if I touch this?" | agentmap --relates lib/auth.ts |
99.2% |
| "Where is this defined?" | agentmap --find ChatMessage |
99% |
| "Give me the repo, cheap" | agentmap --map --tokens 2000 |
99.3% |
| Don't want to pick? | agentmap --any <anything> |
— |
--any routes it for you: file → symbol → feature → live content search.
Cold build ~1.2s. Cached query ~0.1s. No server, no vector DB, no API key.
🔌 Setup
npx @raymondchins/agentmap --install-hooks # rebuild on commit + steer the agent to the map
npx @raymondchins/agentmap --install-skill # Claude Code · Cursor · Codex · Gemini · OpenCode · Copilot
Most repo-map tools stop at building the map. These two hooks are why it stays useful: the map rebuilds itself after every commit, and the agent gets nudged to the map the moment it reaches for a dependency-shaped grep. Claude Code users can get both from the plugin.
100% local. Zero network calls, zero telemetry — not one
fetch/httpin the source. ⚠️ Install the scoped name; unscopednpx agentmapis someone else's package.
First run caches to .claude/agentmap/map.json (--install-hooks gitignores it). Later runs
serve that cache only on a clean tree at an unchanged HEAD — with uncommitted
.ts/.tsx/.js/… edits it silently rebuilds, so you never query a stale snapshot.
$ npx @raymondchins/agentmap
agentmap: 154 files | 4 features | top hub: lib/utils.ts (deg 52, pr 0.105171)
From a checkout, every command also works as node agentmap.mjs ….
🧠 Why the answers are right
Built on ts-morph — the real TypeScript compiler, not text matching or tree-sitter
guessing. It resolves tsconfig path aliases, vite/webpack aliases, #imports subpaths,
and monorepo workspaces. Where grep sees a string, agentmap sees the resolved module.
That's also why barrels don't fool it: export * from "./x" looks identical to a real
definition to a text search, so your agent edits the re-export and changes nothing. agentmap
follows the chain and names the file that actually declares it.
- The win scales with the work. The 63% and 11% rows are the floor. A trivial
single-file lookup can cost more than
cat+grep— taxonomy's file-import task hit −313%, and it stays in the table. - The 98.3% headline is carried by its two biggest rows — repo dump (150,281 → 1,127) and blast radius (81,038 → 616). Drop the repo dump and it's 96.9%; drop both and it's 89.8% here, 93.7% pooled across all three repos, and 73.1% on the smallest one. All of those are real — they answer different questions. The headline is the common worst case: an agent dumping the repo at session start.
--relatesreturns the full blast radius, so it costs more than a baregrep -lfile list. That's why the same command reads as 99.2% saved in the benchmark and more expensive in the eval: the benchmark's baseline is an agent thatcats all 65 dependent files, the eval's is a file list nobody reads. Against the list, agentmap trades tokens for precision — 100% vs 59.9%, so ~4 in 10 files on the grep list don't belong. Complete-and-correct over short-and-wrong, but it is a trade → EVAL.md.- Numbers are context-token volume, not answer quality or wall-clock.
- Token counts are estimates (
chars / 4), applied identically to both sides. - TypeScript/JavaScript only (+ Vue SFC) — see Scope & limitations.
Why it's different
Many "repo context" tools are a photocopy: they dump your repository (or a slice of it) into the prompt once and walk away — the copy goes stale the moment you edit a file, and nothing makes the agent actually read it. agentmap is queryable and ranked instead: the agent interrogates it flag-by-flag rather than swallowing a dump.
It also reports an edgeCoverage map-health signal and warns loudly when a repo's imports
mostly don't resolve, so a broken map is never quietly framed as success.
The self-refreshing side — a post-commit rebuild plus a PreToolUse hook that steers the agent
to the map before it serial-greps — is genuinely useful, but it isn't unique: CodeGraph
(colbymchenry/codegraph, ~62k★ (2026-07-26)) ships a native
OS-event file watcher (FSEvents/inotify) with debounced auto-sync and an installer that
auto-configures eight agent CLIs. agentmap's honest edge over the multi-language graph tools is
narrower and sharper: TS/JS resolution the others approximate, with a published accuracy eval.
| agentmap | Aider repo map | RepoMapper | Repomix | code2prompt | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranking algorithm | Personalized PageRank (file + symbol graphs) | PageRank (graph ranking) | Importance heuristics | None (file order) | None (file order) |
| Languages | TS/JS + Vue SFC (via ts-morph) | Many (tree-sitter) | Many (tree-sitter) | Language-agnostic (text) | Language-agnostic (text) |
| Token-budget output | Yes — --map [--tokens N] ranked digest |
Yes (built into Aider's context) | Partial | Yes (size caps) | Yes (templates/caps) |
| TS/JS resolution depth | Compiler-grade — tsconfig paths + vite/webpack alias + #imports + workspaces (ts-morph) |
Basename/regex heuristics | Basename/regex heuristics | N/A (text) | N/A (text) |
| Retrieval-accuracy eval | Yes — published EVAL.md vs live ground truth |
No | No | No | No |
| Agent-loop wiring | Yes — post-commit auto-refresh + PreToolUse hook | In-process (Aider only) | No | MCP server (no auto-refresh, no nudge) | No |
| Dependencies | ts-morph only |
Python + tree-sitter stack | Python + tree-sitter | Node | Rust binary |
| Install | npx @raymondchins/agentmap |
pip install aider-chat |
pip install |
npx/global |
cargo/binary |
Comparison as of 2026-07-27, from each project's own docs. These are moving targets — if a cell is out of date, that's a bug: open an issue.
What that table is not claiming: agentmap is TS/JS-only (the others are multi-language),
and it's a file-level import graph, not a full call-site/reference resolver (see
Scope & limitations). The differentiators are narrow and honest:
(1) compiler-grade TS/JS resolution (aliases, vite/webpack, #imports, workspaces) with a
published accuracy eval, and (2) the --any router. The agent-loop wiring is real and
convenient but not unique — CodeGraph and others
auto-sync and auto-configure agent CLIs too; we don't claim it as a moat.
The agent loop (staying current, staying used)
A common failure of repo-map tools: they build a beautiful map, and then the agent forgets it exists and greps anyway. A map the agent doesn't open is just dead weight.
agentmap closes that loop. Two hooks (in ./hooks/) do the work: the map
refreshes itself after every commit, and the agent gets nudged to query it before it
serial-greps. You wire it once — then it stays current on its own, and stays used.
This wiring is table stakes, not the moat — CodeGraph and other tools also auto-sync (via native OS file watchers) and auto-configure agent CLIs. agentmap ships it because it's genuinely useful; the actual point of agentmap is the compiler-grade TS/JS accuracy the map is built on.
1. Auto-refresh on commit
hooks/post-commit rebuilds .claude/agentmap/map.json after each
commit, detached + silenced so it never slows the commit. It skips during
rebase/merge/cherry-pick and no-ops if Node is missing.
The hooks ship inside the npm package. The simplest setup:
npx @raymondchins/agentmap --install-hooks
This copies hooks/post-commit into .git/hooks/, sets it executable, ensures
.claude/agentmap/ is in .gitignore, and auto-wires the PreToolUse nudge
hook into .claude/settings.json (merge-safe + idempotent) so map enforcement is
on by default — no manual paste. Manual alternative for just the post-commit hook:
# from your repo root
cp hooks/post-commit .git/hooks/post-commit
chmod +x .git/hooks/post-commit
The hook resolves the builder to the installed package — node_modules/.bin/agentmap,
a PATH agentmap binary verified to be @raymondchins/agentmap, then
npx @raymondchins/agentmap. It never runs a repo-local ./agentmap.mjs unless you opt in
with AGENTMAP_HOOK_ALLOW_LOCAL=1 (for developing agentmap itself), so an
attacker-planted agentmap.mjs can't execute on your next commit.
2. Force the agent to use it — PreToolUse hook
hooks/agentmap-nudge.mjs is a non-blocking hook for
Claude Code that covers both the Grep tool and raw Bash text-searchers
(grep/rg/egrep/fgrep/ag/ack). When either looks like a dependency /
who-imports / component-usage / reuse / where-is-symbol search, it injects a reminder
steering the agent to agentmap --any first. It never denies the call, and stays silent
for raw-string / Tailwind-class / lowercase-HTML-tag sweeps and for pipe-filtered commands
like ps aux | grep node — so it's high-signal, not nagging.
Fires on: import/require/export/from '...' patterns, JSX component tags
(<Hero, <ProviderCard), explicit intent words (where is, who imports, reuse,
existing component), and — in both the Grep tool and the Bash branch — bare multi-hump
PascalCase identifiers (ProviderCard, TopProviders) that almost always mean "where is
this symbol / who uses it". The Bash branch additionally only fires when the searcher is the primary command (at the start,
or after ;/&&); piped log-filters stay silent.
All four nudge/gate variants (this one, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode) also self-gate on
project presence: since they ship at user/global scope too (plugin bundle, ~/.gemini,
~/.codex, ~/.config/opencode), they walk up from the tool call's cwd to the
filesystem root looking for node_modules/@raymondchins/agentmap or a built
.claude/agentmap/map.json before doing anything else, so a repo with no agentmap stays
silent instead of nagging (or, for Codex, denying a grep it has no business denying).
--install-hooks writes both matchers into .claude/settings.json for you (merge-safe —
preserves existing settings, won't duplicate on re-run). The single hook file dispatches
internally on tool_name. For reference, or to wire it by hand:
{
"hooks": {
"PreToolUse": [
{
"matcher": "Grep",
"hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "node ./hooks/agentmap-nudge.mjs" }]
},
{
"matcher": "Bash",
"hooks": [{ "type": "command", "command": "node ./hooks/agentmap-nudge.mjs" }]
}
]
}
}
That's the "forced to use it" in the tagline: the map stays current on its own, and the agent is steered to it the moment it reaches for a dependency-shaped grep or Bash search.
3. Agent skills (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Gemini, Antigravity, Copilot)
npx @raymondchins/agentmap --install-skill
…or grab just the skill (no agentmap flags) via the skills
CLI — agentmap ships the skills/agentmap/SKILL.md layout it expects:
npx skills add raymondchins/agentmap
--install-skill copies packaged SKILL.md files and a Cursor rule (.cursor/rules/agentmap.mdc,
alwaysApply: true) into the current repo or global agent directories. Paths follow
each platform's official skill-directory conventions. Options:
agentmap --install-skill --platform cursor # Cursor rule + .cursor/hooks.json shell gate (project)
agentmap --install-skill --platform claude # .claude/skills/agentmap/SKILL.md
agentmap --install-skill --platform codex # .codex/skills/ (project) or ~/.codex/skills/ (global)
agentmap --install-skill --platform opencode # .opencode/skills/ (project) or ~/.config/opencode/skills/ (global)
agentmap --install-skill --platform gemini # .gemini/skills/ (project); global ~/.gemini/skills/ (Windows global: ~/.agents/skills/)
agentmap --install-skill --platform antigravity # .agents/skills/ (project) or ~/.gemini/config/skills/ (global)
agentmap --install-skill --platform copilot # .copilot/skills/ or ~/.copilot/skills/
agentmap --install-skill --global --platform claude # ~/.claude/skills/...
agentmap --install-skill --platform agents # legacy .agents/skills/ (project or global); excluded from default `all`
agentmap --install-skill --dry-run # preview paths, no writes
--platform all installs: claude, cursor, codex, opencode, gemini, antigravity, copilot (not legacy agents).
Some platforms also get always-on docs and hooks in the same command:
--platform |
Skill | Also installs (project) | Global docs |
|---|---|---|---|
gemini |
.gemini/skills/…/SKILL.md |
GEMINI.md + .gemini/settings.json BeforeTool nudge |
~/.gemini/GEMINI.md |
codex |
.codex/skills/…/SKILL.md |
AGENTS.md merge-safe <!-- agentmap:begin/end --> block |
~/.codex/AGENTS.md |
opencode |
.opencode/skills/…/SKILL.md |
AGENTS.md + .opencode/plugins/agentmap-nudge.js |
~/.config/opencode/AGENTS.md |
cursor |
.cursor/rules/agentmap.mdc |
.cursor/hooks.json beforeShellExecution gate + .cursor/hooks/agentmap-cursor-nudge.mjs |
— (project-scope only) |
Codex and OpenCode share one repo-root AGENTS.md on project install. Existing content outside the marked block is preserved.
Pair with --install-hooks (Claude Code) or --mcp (Cursor MCP).
4. Claude Code plugin (one-command bundle)
Prefer the plugin over --install-skill/--install-hooks if you're on Claude Code and
want the skill, the PreToolUse grep/Bash nudge, and the stdio MCP server in a single
install that auto-updates:
# in Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add raymondchins/agentmap
/plugin install agentmap@agentmap
The plugin bundles: the packaged SKILL.md, the PreToolUse nudge (both the Grep
tool and Bash text-searchers, via ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}), and the stdio MCP server
(npx -y @raymondchins/agentmap --mcp, so ts-morph is fetched on demand — the plugin
cache ships no node_modules).
One thing the plugin can't do: install the git
post-commithook. Claude Code plugins can't write into.git/hooks/, so the auto-refresh-on-commit still needs a one-timenpx @raymondchins/agentmap --install-hooksin each repo (it also wires the nudge into.claude/settings.json, harmlessly redundant with the plugin's copy). Without it the map still rebuilds on any dirty query — you just lose the commit-time refresh.
Onboarding by platform
Enforcement isn't uniform — some CLIs get a live hook that actively steers grep to agentmap, some get an MCP server the agent can call, and some are docs-only (a skill/rule the agent may or may not consult). Honest matrix:
| Platform | Install | Enforcement | Known gaps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | /plugin install agentmap@agentmap (or --install-hooks) |
live hook — PreToolUse nudge on Grep + Bash searchers |
non-blocking (never denies grep); bare-symbol Grep nudge requires the #3 hook fix |
| Gemini CLI | --install-skill --platform gemini |
live hook — .gemini/settings.json nudge |
fires on BeforeTool and emits a top-level systemMessage; Gemini parses and then drops hookSpecificOutput.additionalContext on BeforeTool, which is why the nudge used to vanish silently |
| OpenCode | --install-skill --platform opencode |
log-only — .opencode/plugins/agentmap-nudge.js writes to the log, does not inject context |
plugin can't steer the model; relies on the AGENTS.md block being read |
| Cursor | --install-skill --platform cursor + .cursor/mcp.json (below) |
live gate — .cursor/hooks.json beforeShellExecution hook, plus the alwaysApply rule and the MCP server |
denies only high-confidence structural greps; allow-fallback for logs/pipes/non-TS-JS; AGENTMAP_CURSOR_GATE=0 bypasses; project-scope only |
| Codex CLI | --install-skill --platform codex |
live gate — .codex/config.toml PreToolUse hook |
denies only high-confidence structural greps; allow-fallback for logs/pipes/non-TS-JS; AGENTMAP_CODEX_GATE=0 bypasses; needs a trusted dir + Codex hooks-GA |
| Copilot CLI | --install-skill --platform copilot |
docs-only — .copilot/skills/ |
same as Codex — no live hook yet |
Cursor MCP — copy-paste .cursor/mcp.json (Cursor's --mcp wiring is a documented
dead-end otherwise; drop this at your repo root):
{
"mcpServers": {
"agentmap": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@raymondchins/agentmap", "--mcp"]
}
}
}
Then Cursor exposes the 11 query tools (any, find, relates, map, hubs,
features, feature, symbols, search, callers, calls). Run agentmap --doctor any time to see what's wired
vs missing.
Uninstall
agentmap only writes files into your repo/home — remove them to fully uninstall. agentmap --doctor lists every path it wrote, and every docs merge lives inside an
<!-- agentmap:begin/end --> (or # agentmap:begin/end) fence, so deleting just that block
leaves the rest of your AGENTS.md / GEMINI.md intact.
| Platform | Remove |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | .claude/skills/agentmap/ + the agentmap PreToolUse block in .claude/settings.json |
| Cursor | .cursor/rules/agentmap.mdc, .cursor/hooks/agentmap-cursor-nudge.mjs, the beforeShellExecution entry in .cursor/hooks.json, + the agentmap entry in .cursor/mcp.json |
| Codex | .codex/skills/agentmap/, the # agentmap:begin/end block in .codex/config.toml, .codex/hooks/agentmap-codex-nudge.mjs, and the fenced block in AGENTS.md |
| OpenCode | .opencode/skills/agentmap/, .opencode/plugins/agentmap-nudge.js, the AGENTS.md block |
| Gemini | .gemini/skills/agentmap/, .gemini/hooks/agentmap-nudge.mjs, the BeforeTool hook in .gemini/settings.json, the GEMINI.md block |
| All | map cache rm -rf .claude/agentmap/; npm devDep npm rm @raymondchins/agentmap; the agentmap block in .git/hooks/post-commit |
Troubleshooting
| Symptom | Cause / fix |
|---|---|
features (0) |
--features only detects Next.js app/ routes; a TanStack src/routes/ repo legitimately shows 0. Use --map / --symbols instead. |
| Empty or wrong map | Usually no tsconfig.json / resolvable aliases in the target repo, so no edges resolved — run agentmap --doctor and check edgeCoverage in --json. |
| Stale-looking results | By design the map rebuilds from disk on a dirty tree / SHA mismatch. Force a rebuild by just running agentmap. |
| Codex/Gemini nudge never fires | Codex's gate is opt-in — set [features] hooks = true in .codex/config.toml (AGENTMAP_CODEX_GATE=0 disables it). Gemini needs the BeforeTool hook that --install-skill writes. |
| Cursor gate blocks a grep you meant | Re-run the same command with AGENTMAP_CURSOR_GATE=0 prefixed. It only denies high-confidence structural searches; logs, pipes and non-structural sweeps already fall through. Remove the beforeShellExecution entry from .cursor/hooks.json to turn it off for good. |
| Cursor gate never fires | It is project-scope only, so it must be installed from the repo root (--install-skill --platform cursor, not --global), and Cursor reads .cursor/hooks.json at startup — restart Cursor after installing. |
Installed the wrong agentmap |
This is @raymondchins/agentmap (npm scope) — not the unrelated unscoped agentmap packages. |
| Cursor MCP tools missing | --mcp doesn't auto-wire Cursor; add the copy-paste .cursor/mcp.json from the matrix above and restart Cursor. |
| Hook works in your shell, not in the agent | Almost always nvm. Your interactive shell sources ~/.nvm/nvm.sh; the git hook and the agent's tool runner do not, so node isn't on their PATH. Point the hook at an absolute node (which node) or install a system-wide node. |
JavaScript heap out of memory |
Raise the ceiling — the parse peaks and there is no in-process warning that can fire in time (the process dies inside a single call, with heap use still at ~40% one sample earlier). Re-run as NODE_OPTIONS=--max-old-space-size=8192 npx @raymondchins/agentmap. Repo size is not the axis: measured, a 252-file Next.js app peaks at 683 MB while 4,000 dependency-free files peak at 756 MB, because the dependency .d.ts closure (~300 MB, ~1,800 extra program files on a 393-file app) dominates. A small repo with heavy @types can need more than a large plain one. |
| Skill file looks out of date | Each installed skill dir carries a .agentmap_version. agentmap --doctor compares it against the running version and flags the drift; --install-skill again overwrites it. |
0 files mapped |
agentmap indexes git ls-files --cached --others --exclude-standard, so uncommitted files are included but .gitignored ones are not — a source tree matched by an ignore rule maps to nothing, as does a directory that is not a git repo at all. Confirm with git ls-files --others --exclude-standard | head. |
The --any router
Don't want to learn eight flags? You don't have to. Throw anything at --any — a filename, a
function, a feature, even a raw string — and it figures out what you meant, returning the first
layer that hits:
--any <query>
│
├─ 1. FILE exact path → unique basename → unique substring
├─ 2. SYMBOL exported name contains the query (across all files)
├─ 3. FEATURE app/-router feature name contains the query
└─ 4. CONTENT live `git grep` (tracked + untracked) — never stale
Layers 1–3 read the cached structural map (fast, ranked). Layer 4 is a live disk read
via git grep -F, so raw strings, copy, Tailwind classes, and config values the structural
graph never indexes still resolve instead of coming up empty.
Symbol hit (query resolved to a symbol → full block):
$ node agentmap.mjs --any cn
[structure] 1 symbol, 0 feature match for "cn"
lib/utils.ts → cn (FunctionDeclaration)
Ambiguous file hit (query matched multiple files → narrow it):
$ node agentmap.mjs --any utils
[structure] "utils" matched 3 files — narrow it:
lib/utils.ts
lib/db/utils.ts
tests/prompts/utils.ts
Content fallback (no file/symbol/feature match → live git-grep):
$ node agentmap.mjs --any streamText
[content] 13 lines:
app/(chat)/api/chat/route.ts:8: streamText,
app/(chat)/api/chat/route.ts:194: const result = streamText({
artifacts/code/server.ts:1:import { streamText } from "ai";
artifacts/code/server.ts:18: const { fullStream } = streamText({
artifacts/code/server.ts:40: const { fullStream } = streamText({
artifacts/sheet/server.ts:1:import { streamText } from "ai";
artifacts/sheet/server.ts:11: const { fullStream } = streamText({
Commands
Every snippet below is representative output (long lists trimmed) from running agentmap against the public 154-file Next.js repo vercel/ai-chatbot (sha 2becdb4).
--any <q> — the router (file → symbol → feature → live content)
See The --any router above. Default first move for any
"where/what/who" question.
--find <q> — reuse-before-rebuild symbol search
Find every symbol whose name contains the query — exported symbols plus non-exported top-level declarations. Use it before writing a new util or component to check what already exists (a private helper counts as reusable too).
$ node agentmap.mjs --find Message
find "Message": 55 match
hooks/use-messages.tsx → useMessages (FunctionDeclaration)
lib/errors.ts → getMessageByErrorCode (FunctionDeclaration)
lib/types.ts → messageMetadataSchema (VariableDeclaration)
lib/types.ts → MessageMetadata (TypeAliasDeclaration)
lib/types.ts → ChatMessage (TypeAliasDeclaration)
lib/utils.ts → convertToUIMessages (FunctionDeclaration)
lib/utils.ts → getTextFromMessage (FunctionDeclaration)
tests/helpers.ts → generateTestMessage (FunctionDeclaration)
app/(chat)/actions.ts → generateTitleFromUserMessage (FunctionDeclaration)
…
Barrels don't hide the real file. When a match is reached through a re-export
(export * from "./x", or a named/renamed re-export, at any depth), the output names the
file that actually declares it. The TypeScript checker resolves the chain, so this works
where a name search can't — rg sees the barrel and the origin as two equal hits with no
way to tell which one you can edit. An origin outside the repo reports
→ defined outside the repo; a node_modules path is never printed.
$ node agentmap.mjs --find useComposedRefs # radix-ui/primitives@579c5b84
find "useComposedRefs": 3 match
packages/react/compose-refs/src/index.ts → useComposedRefs (FunctionDeclaration) → defined in packages/react/compose-refs/src/compose-refs.tsx
packages/react/compose-refs/src/compose-refs.tsx → useComposedRefs (FunctionDeclaration)
packages/react/radix-ui/src/internal.ts → useComposedRefs (?)
In --json this is definedIn: "<path>" or external: true on the match, present only
when the entry is a pass-through — a real definition carries neither.
--search <q> — BM25 lexical search for vague queries
When you don't know the exact symbol name — the query an agent actually types — --search
ranks symbols by BM25 lexical relevance over split-identifier tokens (the symbol name,
its file's path segments, feature, and kind), fused with file PageRank so a strong hit in an
important file wins ties. No embeddings, no vector DB; the index is built into map.json.
The same ranker is wired into --any as a rung that fires only when exact file/symbol
matching found nothing, so exact routing is unchanged.
$ node agentmap.mjs --search "auth retry logic"
search "auth retry logic": 3 match
src/authRetry.ts → retryWithBackoff (FunctionDeclaration) [6.83]
…
Stopwords (the, that, of, …) are dropped, so --search "the function that dedupes symbols" works. Also available as the search MCP tool.
--relates <path> — blast radius + transitive relevance
The file's own block (exports / imports / direct dependents) plus a random-walk relevance list (personalized PageRank on the bidirectional import graph) — the files most related to the target, transitively, not just its direct importers.
$ node agentmap.mjs --relates lib/db/schema.ts
relates: lib/db/schema.ts (pr 0.073744)
exports (14): user(VariableDeclaration), User(TypeAliasDeclaration), chat(VariableDeclaration), Chat(TypeAliasDeclaration), message(VariableDeclaration), DBMessage(TypeAliasDeclaration), …
imports (0): —
dependents (21): hooks/use-active-chat.tsx, lib/types.ts, lib/utils.ts, components/chat/artifact.tsx, components/chat/message.tsx, lib/db/queries.ts, app/(chat)/api/chat/route.ts, …
related (random-walk relevance):
lib/utils.ts (0.0476)
lib/types.ts (0.0376)
components/chat/artifact.tsx (0.0372)
components/chat/icons.tsx (0.0264)
components/chat/message.tsx (0.0237)
lib/db/queries.ts (0.0225)
app/(chat)/api/chat/route.ts (0.0218)
…
Type-only dependencies are listed separately, not silently dropped. dependents means
"would break at runtime". A file imported only via import type has no runtime dependents
at all — but renaming or deleting its exports still breaks every consumer at compile time.
Those appear under type-only dependents, so a types module stops reading like an orphan:
$ node agentmap.mjs --relates lib/types.ts # vercel/chatbot@c2f8235e
relates: lib/types.ts (pr 0.002898)
exports (7): messageMetadataSchema(VariableDeclaration), MessageMetadata(TypeAliasDeclaration), …
imports (0): —
dependents (0): —
type-only imports (6): components/chat/artifact.tsx, lib/ai/tools/create-document.ts, …
type-only dependents (23): hooks/use-active-chat.tsx, hooks/use-auto-resume.ts, lib/utils.ts, …
22.4% of that repo's import statements are type-only. The fields are
typeOnlyImports / typeOnlyDependents in --json, omitted entirely when empty, and they
never enter PageRank, --hubs, symbol ranking or --export — the ranking graph stays a
runtime graph.
For a file carrying a React Server Components directive prologue, the output adds one more
line — boundary: 'use client' (client component) or boundary: 'use server' (server module/actions)
(rsc: 'client' | 'server' in --json) — right after dependents. This is additive and
optional: repos with no 'use client'/'use server' directives never see the line.
--callers <sym> — compiler-accurate call graph (experimental)
Who actually calls a symbol, resolved by the TypeScript language service (ts-morph
findReferencesAsNodes) — not tree-sitter name-matching. This is symbol-level blast radius:
a type-position mention (typeof foo), a re-export, a bare value reference (const x = foo),
or a same-named private local in another file is a different symbol and is never
mis-attributed. --in <path> disambiguates a name defined in more than one file (exported
definitions win over same-named private locals); results are ranked by caller-file PageRank
and capped.
$ node agentmap.mjs --callers getMessageByErrorCode
callers of getMessageByErrorCode [lib/errors.ts]: 3 call sites
app/(chat)/api/chat/route.ts:88 → POST
lib/db/queries.ts:142 → saveMessage
components/chat/message.tsx:57 → PureMessage
JSX counts as a call site. <Foo /> compiles to React.createElement(Foo, …) (classic
runtime) or jsx(Foo, …) (automatic runtime) — either way it's an invocation, so a
component's callers include everywhere it's rendered, not just plain foo() calls.
<Foo.Bar /> resolves to Bar, not the Foo namespace; <Foo>...</Foo> counts once (the
closing tag isn't a second call site); an intrinsic tag (<div>) resolves to nothing
in-project and produces no edge.
$ node agentmap.mjs --callers Button
callers of Button [components/ui/button.tsx]: 25 call sites
components/ai-elements/message.tsx:93 → MessageAction
components/ai-elements/message.tsx:263 → MessageBranchPrevious
components/ui/sidebar.tsx:249 → SidebarTrigger
components/ui/alert-dialog.tsx:158 → AlertDialogAction
components/ui/dialog.tsx:72 → DialogContent
…
Before 0.17.0, JSX wasn't a recognized call shape at all, so that same query returned
0 call sites — a plain rg '<Button' beat the tool outright. Captured on
vercel/ai-chatbot at c2f8235; reproduce it by
running the query against that commit.
A deliberate deep query: it lazily spins up the TS type-checker (a few seconds on a large
repo) only when invoked — the map build and every other query never pay that cost, and
nothing is persisted. Accurate on statically-resolvable calls; dynamic dispatch, reflection,
and string-keyed access are beyond any static tool. Also available as the callers MCP tool.
--calls <sym> — outgoing call graph (experimental)
The companion to --callers: which in-project symbols a symbol invokes. Each call and
new X() site inside its body is resolved by the type checker (getDefinitionNodes), which
follows an imported / re-exported binding through to the real declaration — so a same-named
local elsewhere is never confused for the imported one. node_modules and TypeScript
built-ins (console.log, Array.map, …) are excluded; dynamic dispatch, computed member
access, and higher-order callees are honestly skipped.
$ node agentmap.mjs --calls extractFacts
extractFacts calls [agentmap.mjs]: 15 in-project targets
agentmap.mjs:756 → makeProject (FunctionDeclaration)
agentmap.mjs:944 → rel (VariableDeclaration)
agentmap.mjs:952 → excluded (VariableDeclaration)
…
JSX counts as an outgoing call too, for the mirror-image reason: a component whose body
is nothing but return <Container><Sidebar /></Container> has no CallExpression in it, so
before this fix it reported zero outgoing calls even though it clearly depends on both.
Each <Foo /> / <Foo>...</Foo> in the body now resolves to its target declaration the same
way a plain call does — the printed (kind) is the target's own declaration kind
(FunctionDeclaration, etc.), not "JSX", since resolution is unchanged, only call-site
detection is:
$ node agentmap.mjs --calls AppSidebar
AppSidebar calls [components/chat/app-sidebar.tsx]: 35 in-project targets
components/ui/tooltip.tsx:21 → Tooltip (FunctionDeclaration)
components/ui/tooltip.tsx:33 → TooltipContent (FunctionDeclaration)
components/ui/sidebar.tsx:144 → Sidebar (FunctionDeclaration)
components/ui/sidebar.tsx:379 → SidebarContent (FunctionDeclaration)
…
Same repo and commit: this returned 6 targets before 0.17.0 — only the plain hook and helper calls — and 35 after, because the 29 components it renders now count too.
Same lazy, out-of-band model as --callers (builds a Project only on the query, nothing
persisted). Also the calls MCP tool. JSX closes a real gap here — it doesn't change what's
still out of reach: the node_modules/dynamic-dispatch/computed-member/higher-order limits
above still apply.
Going transitive — --depth N. Both --callers and --calls accept --depth N
(default 1, max 5) for an N-hop closure: --callers foo --depth 3 is the transitive
blast radius ("everything that reaches foo, up to 3 hops"); --calls foo --depth 3 is
the dependency cone ("everything foo pulls in"). It BFS-traverses the same single warm
Project — no extra build — with cycle detection and node caps so a hub can't explode; each
result is tagged with its depth and a via parent. --depth 1 is the default single-hop
query.
$ node agentmap.mjs --callers leaf --depth 2
callers of leaf [src/chain.ts]: 2 callers within depth 2
src/chain.ts:2 → mid [depth 1]
src/chain.ts:3 → top [depth 2]
--feature <name> — files that make up a feature
Resolves a Next.js app/-router feature to its file set, plus the external files that
depend on it.
$ node agentmap.mjs --feature api
feature "api": 11 files
app/(chat)/api/chat/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/chat/schema.ts
app/(chat)/api/document/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/history/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/messages/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/models/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/suggestions/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/vote/route.ts
app/(auth)/api/auth/guest/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/files/upload/route.ts
app/(chat)/api/chat/[id]/stream/route.ts
external dependents (0): —
--features — list features by size
$ node agentmap.mjs --features
features (4):
api (11 files)
login (1 files)
register (1 files)
chat (1 files)
--affected <path> — which tests cover this file
Walks the reverse-dependency closure and reports the test files that reach the target, with hop distance. The useful answer is often the empty one: nothing covers this, which is what you want to know before a risky edit, not after CI.
Type-only importers count. Changing an exported type breaks every import type consumer
at compile time, so the walk follows dependents and typeOnlyDependents.
$ node agentmap.mjs --affected agentmap.mjs
affected by agentmap.mjs: 3 test files (of 4 transitive dependents)
test
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