Repowise is an open-source, self-hosted codebase-intelligence tool for developers and coding agents. It builds a local index of source code, dependency and symbol relationships, Git history, tests, documentation, architectural decisions, dead code, and code-health signals, then exposes the indexed evidence through an MCP server, local dashboard, CLI, editor integrations, and pull-request analysis.
Its graph is built from AST-parsed code and Git data, with confidence-stamped call resolution, change-impact and co-change analysis, hotspot and ownership history, documentation-drift checks, decision evidence, and deterministic code-health detectors. The MCP interface provides task-oriented tools for repository overviews, cited answers, file and symbol context, code search, risk analysis, change risk, architectural rationale, dead-code detection, and health and refactoring plans. Optional model-written documentation and prose can be generated through a configured provider, while the core graph, risk, health, test, and dead-code analysis does not require LLM calls or an API key.
Repowise also includes reversible command-output distillation for agents, proactive context hooks, generated agent instruction files, a GitHub PR bot, multi-repository workspace analysis, contract and cross-repository blast-radius mapping, and a VS Code extension. It can be installed with pip and run locally; the repository states that raw source is processed transiently and not persisted, while indexed graph data, embeddings, wiki pages, and Git metadata are stored. The core project is licensed under AGPL-3.0, with commercial licensing available for specified enterprise capabilities and embedding scenarios.