Agent skill · software engineering · aradotso
understand-anything-knowledge-graph
Turn any codebase into an interactive knowledge graph using Claude Code skills — explore, search, and ask questions about any project visually.
Why this skill is useful
Adds a multi-agent pipeline and interactive dashboard for visualizing and exploring codebases, which fundamentally extends the AI's capabilities in understanding complex projects.
What it needs
Requires pnpm installed locally. About 5k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-07-09. 70 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
Understand Anything — Codebase Knowledge Graph Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection. Understand Anything is a Claude Code plugin that runs a multi-agent pipeline over your project, builds a knowledge graph of every file, function, class, and dependency, and opens an interactive React dashboard for visual exploration. It produces plain-English summaries of every node so anyone — developer, PM, or designer — can understand the codebase. --- Installation Via Claude Code plugin marketplace From source (development) --- Core Skills / Commands Command What it does --- --- /understand Run the full multi-agent analysis pipeline on the current project /understand-dashboard Open the interactive knowledge graph dashboard /understand-chat <question> Ask anything about the codebase in natural language /understand-diff Analyze impact of current uncommitted changes /understand-explain <path> Deep-dive explanation of a specific file or function /understand-onboard Generate an onboarding guide for new team members --- Typical Workflow 1. Analyze a project This orchestrates 5 agents in sequence (with file-analyzers running up to 3 concurrent): 1. project-scanner — discovers files, detects languages/frameworks 2. file-analyzer — extracts functions, classes, imports; builds graph nodes and edges 3. architecture-analyzer — groups nodes into architectural layers (API, Service, Data, UI, Utility) 4. tour-builder — generates ordered learning tours 5. graph-reviewer — validates referential integrity Output is saved to .understand-anything/knowledge-graph.json in your project root. 2. Open the dashboard The React + Vite dashboard opens in your browser. Features: Graph view — React Flow canvas, color-coded by layer, zoom/pan Node inspector — click any node for code, relationships, LLM summary Search — fuzzy + semantic search across all nodes Tours — guided walkthroughs ordered by dependency Persona mode — toggle detail level (Junior Dev / PM / Power User) 3. Ask questions 4. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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