/explore-codebase

name: explore-codebase
description: Navigate and understand codebase structure using the knowledge graph

Explore Codebase

Use the code-review-graph MCP tools to find your way around the codebase.

Steps

1. Call `get_architecture_overview_tool` for the community structure. Call `list_communities_tool`, then `get_community_tool`, only for the modules you need. 2. Call `semantic_search_nodes_tool` to find a function or class by name or keyword. Pass `include_source=True, expand_neighbors=True` to get the code of the hits and their direct callers and callees, so you need not open the files. 3. Call `query_graph_tool` with `callers_of`, `callees_of` or `imports_of` to trace relationships. `children_of` on a file lists its functions and classes, and `path_to` with `to` shows how one symbol reaches another. 4. Call `list_flows_tool`, then `get_flow_tool` for one flow, to follow an execution path. 5. Call `find_large_functions_tool` to find oversized functions. 6. Call `list_graph_stats_tool` only when you need node, edge and language counts.

Token Efficiency Rules

• Call `get_minimal_context_tool(task="<your task>")` before any other graph tool.
• Pass `detail_level="minimal"` wherever a tool accepts it. Use "standard" only when minimal is not enough.
• Prefer a targeted `query_graph_tool` call over a broad listing call.
• Budget: about five tool calls and 800 tokens of graph output per task.
• Read the implementation and its tests before changing code. The graph narrows scope; it does not replace the source.