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# CLAUDE.md

Project context for Claude Code (and other agents) working in this repo.

## What this project is

**dekko** is a fast, offline, dependency-free static code map generator and

codebase indexer for LLM coding agents. It parses a repo once with

tree-sitter (no model tokens spent parsing) into `MAP.md` (human-readable)

and `map.json` (machine-readable), then answers targeted structural

questions — "who calls this function," "what does this file contain,"

"what tests does this change impact" — without an agent reading whole

files or grepping blind. It ships three ways: a CLI (`dekko`), a Claude

Code `/map` plugin + MCP server, and Cline MCP support.

Source lives under `src/dekko/`, split into subpackages by role:

`core/` (parsing primitives — model, extractor, grammars, languages,

walker, resolver), `render/` (MAP.md/JSON/HTML/lean/export

rendering), `analysis/` (read-side commands — query, outline, search,

affected, trace, unused, stats, summary, workset, contextpack, diff,

- relevance), `daemon/` (the daemon process and its transport),

- `integrations/` (cli, server, hooks, cline, orient, claude_md),

- `storage/` (on-disk caches/locks/notes/ledger under `.dekko/`), and a

- handful of modules with no subpackage-specific home

- (`classify.py`, `textutil.py`, `source.py`) staying directly under

- `src/dekko/`. `dekko outline src/dekko/<subpackage>/<file>.py` or

+ relevance, ambiguous, deps, sanity), `daemon/` (the daemon process and

+ its transport), `integrations/` (cli, server, hooks, cline, orient,

+ claude_md, doctor), `storage/` (on-disk caches/locks/notes/ledger under

+ `.dekko/`), and a handful of modules with no subpackage-specific home

+ (`classify.py`, `textutil.py`, `source.py`, `repo_ops.py`) staying

+ directly under `src/dekko/`. `dekko outline src/dekko/<subpackage>/<file>.py` or

`dekko query symbol <name>` are cheaper ways to get oriented in this

codebase than reading whole files — dekko is a good tool for exploring

its own source. See `README.md` and `docs/` (`docs/install.md`,

`docs/cli.md`, `docs/claude-code.md`) for user-facing docs, and

`CONTRIBUTING.md` for the dev-setup/test/lint/release commands.

## Working in this repo

- `uv run pytest` / `uv run ruff check .` / `uv run ruff format --check .`

— this is what CI runs; match it locally before considering something

done. A project `.venv` exists (`.venv/bin/python -m pytest -q` works

equivalently if `uv run` isn't available).

- Tests live in `tests/`, mirroring `src/dekko/`'s subpackages

(`tests/core/`, `tests/render/`, `tests/analysis/`, `tests/daemon/`,

`tests/integrations/`, `tests/storage/`) for tests that map cleanly

to a single moved module; cross-cutting/behavioral tests (exercising

several modules or the CLI end-to-end) and tests for the top-level

modules stay flat directly under `tests/`. Test fixtures (tiny

sample-language files) live in `tests/fixtures/`.

- `test-repos/` holds real, unmodified open-source repos (awesome-go,

claude-buddy, claude-code, cline, spring-boot, tensorflow, zed) used as

realistic targets for manual/agent evaluation of dekko itself — not part

of the pytest suite. It's gitignored (`test-repos/` in `.gitignore`), so

nothing under it is tracked; `test-repos/reports/` (see below) is where

evaluation write-ups accumulate locally.

- `test-repos/TESTING-GUIDE.md` is the checklist an agent dispatched to

test dekko should work from: every CLI command/flag, the MCP tools, the

daemon, install/uninstall flows, hooks, and the known-hard cross-cutting

correctness cases (overload disambiguation, search relevance, call-graph

resolution on trait/interface-heavy code, vendored-dir exclusion, budget

capping, staleness). **Update it whenever a feature is added or an

existing one's behavior changes** — a new subcommand, flag, MCP tool, or

behavior change isn't done until this guide reflects it; don't leave it

to whoever tests next to discover the gap.

- `.dekko/MAP.md` / `.dekko/map.json` at the repo root are dekko's own

generated map of itself, regenerated on demand — expect them to show as

modified after running `dekko map`; they're git-ignored by default but

this repo tracks its own for dogfooding, so check whether a given change

is worth including before committing it alongside unrelated work.

- Follow the branch/PR conventions in `CONTRIBUTING.md`: one conceptual

change per PR, `feat:`/`fix:`/`perf:`/`docs:`/`chore:`-style commit

prefixes (see `git log` for the house style), releases cut by pushing a

`v*` tag.

## Evaluation reports: `test-repos/reports/`

When dekko itself is evaluated against real repos (token-cost comparisons

vs. Read/grep, bug hunts, regression checks after a fix), the write-ups go

in `test-repos/reports/`, organized into **numbered round folders**

(`01-initial-eval/`, `02-followup-fixes/`, ... `07-tokentest-7repo-fixcycle/`,

...), each described in `test-repos/reports/README.md`. Read that README

first — it's the index and explains what's in each round and why.

**Organize new rounds by the dekko version/commit under test, not just by

date.** Multiple rounds can share a version (dekko doesn't rev its version

string on every commit), so the precise signal is the branch + commit

range, not just `dekko --version`. When starting a new evaluation round:

1. Create a new folder: `test-repos/reports/NN-short-slug/` (next sequential

number, short descriptive slug — see existing folders for the pattern).

2. Note the dekko version being tested near the top of each report in that

round, e.g.:

```

dekko version: 0.21.3 (branch feature/semantic-search, commit 7da9367)

```

If the version drifts mid-round (e.g. the CLI got reinstalled from a

newer commit partway through), say so explicitly rather than picking

one — this has caused real confusion before (see round 07's

`awesome-go.md`, which flags exactly this).

3. Add a section for the round to `test-repos/reports/README.md`: what's

in it, one line per file/subfolder, and add a row to that README's

"dekko version per round" table.

4. If a round's findings lead to an implementation plan and fixes (as in

round 07), keep the plan/analysis/investigation/verification docs in

the *same* round folder as the reports that motivated them — don't

split a single bug-hunt-to-fix cycle across multiple round numbers.

This lets a regression get traced to *what changed in dekko between the

round that missed it and the round that caught it*, not just to when the

two evaluation sessions happened to run.