Graphicle

Graphicle is an open-source code graph and memory tool that gives coding agents cited excerpts from a project's code and docs.

  • Desktop
  • by KarLex AI
  • Verified 20 Oct 2026

What Graphicle does

Gives coding agents access to a code graph and project memory on the user's own machine. Returns answers with references to specific files and lines.

Built for

  • Developers using coding agents such as Claude Code, Cursor and Codex

Key features

  • Runs locally on the user's machine
  • Returns cited file and line excerpts
  • Maps repository into a code graph
  • Stores project docs, decisions and past sessions as memory
  • Setup via a single command in a repository

Pros

Pros

  • Available as open source under the Apache-2.0 license.
  • States that it does not require an account or send telemetry.

Where Graphicle is listed

Graphicle is listed under AI coding agents in AI coding tools.

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