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OpenLore

Memory server

Created by Clay Good

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What it is

Persistent architectural memory and structural cognition for AI coding agents.
— the description by Clay Good

AutoGineer overview, from the brain’s own files

OpenLore is a memory system designed to solve the amnesia and lack of governance in AI coding agents. By performing a one-time static analysis of a repository, it builds a persistent knowledge graph that encompasses application code, infrastructure-as-code, and architectural decisions. Unlike standard RAG systems, OpenLore operates deterministically without an LLM in the hot path, ensuring consistent answers and providing agents with an 'Epistemic Lease' to warn them when facts have become stale. It serves as both a memory layer for agent orientation and a governance engine that certifies changes, flags breaking API surface modifications, and validates sensitive boundary crossings before they are committed.

How it works

Memory model: Hybrid

AutoGineer overview, from the brain’s own files

OpenLore functions as an MCP server that indexes your repository into a local knowledge graph. Upon installation, it maps code structures, dependencies, and architectural specs. During agent sessions, it injects a compact architecture digest into the agent's context. The agent then uses MCP tools to query this graph for tasks like orienting to a codebase, tracing execution paths, or verifying claims. Governance tools analyze diffs against the graph to provide deterministic verdicts on breaking changes or boundary violations without requiring an LLM.

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The agent reads

The agent writes

Requirements

Runtimes: Node.js ^22.22.0 || >=23.5.0

Databases: LanceDB

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Google Antigravity, Kiro, OpenCode, Amp, Roo Code, Cline, JetBrains Junie, Devin (ex-Windsurf)

Set it up

  1. This brain runs code automatically: 1 script. Review package.json before opening the folder in Claude Code. No step below turns a hook on for you.

    • package.json: node scripts/postinstall.mjs
  2. Not scanned by AutoGineerAutoGineer could not scan everything it runs. https://www.npmjs.com/package/openlore
  3. Created by Clay Good. Published in clay-good/OpenLore. Licence: MIT License.

Usage

AutoGineer overview, from the brain’s own files

  • Orienting an agent to a new codebase at the start of a task.
  • Validating that a proposed code change does not break public API contracts.
  • Checking if a diff introduces a path into a sensitive architectural boundary.
  • Verifying claims about code safety or dead code before refactoring.
  • Maintaining architectural specifications that stay synchronized with code changes.
  • Selecting relevant tests to run based on the specific impact of a code modification.
“Orient me to the user authentication flow in this repository.”
The agent calls orient() and receives a summary of relevant functions, callers, and specs, allowing it to start the task immediately without manual file exploration.
“Review my current changes for breaking API surface modifications.”
The agent uses certify_public_surface to identify changed exports and lists the specific consumers that would be affected by the proposed changes.
“Verify if the function 'deleteUser' is safe to remove.”
The agent uses find_dead_code or verify_claim to determine if the function has any remaining callers or dependencies, providing a deterministic verdict.
“Check if this diff opens a path into the sensitive 'payment-gateway' module.”
The agent uses change_impact_certificate to confirm whether the new code creates a reachable path into the protected boundary.

Documentation by Clay Good

<h1 align="center">OpenLore</h1>

<p align="center"> <strong>Deterministic, local-first memory and guardrails for AI coding agents — no LLM in the hot path.</strong><br> Install once. From then on it runs in the background, keeping your agent oriented and its changes safe.<br> No API key. Same answer every time. </p>

<p align="center"> <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/openlore"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/openlore?color=2563eb&label=npm&logo=npm&logoColor=white" alt="npm version"></a> <a href="https://github.com/clay-good/OpenLore/actions/workflows/ci.yml"><img src="https://github.com/clay-good/OpenLore/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg" alt="CI status"></a> <a href="LICENSE"><img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/l/openlore?color=22c55e" alt="MIT License"></a> <img src="https://img.shields.io/node/v/openlore?color=339933&logo=node.js&logoColor=white" alt="Node >=22.22"> <br> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/MCP-ready-7c3aed?logo=anthropic&logoColor=white" alt="MCP ready"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/languages-21%20%2B%2013%20IaC-f97316" alt="21 languages + 13 IaC ecosystems"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/tests-5500%2B-success" alt="5500+ tests"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/API_key-not_required-0ea5e9" alt="No API key required"> <a href="https://github.com/clay-good/OpenLore/stargazers"><img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/clay-good/OpenLore?style=social" alt="GitHub stars"></a> </p>

<p align="center"> <code>install</code> wires your agent and indexes the repo → <code>orient</code> returns the code a task touches → <code>review</code> catches the change that breaks a contract. All local, no API key. </p>

<p align="center"> <strong><a href="#install-once-then-forget-it">Install</a> · <a href="#what-you-get">What you get</a> · <a href="#value-scorecard--does-it-pay-for-itself">Benchmarks</a> · <a href="#openlore-vs-alternatives">vs. Alternatives</a> · <a href="#documentation">Docs</a></strong> </p>


AI coding agents are amnesiac and ungoverned. Every task restarts by re-reading the same files, long sessions drift onto stale assumptions, and nothing warns the agent when a change is about to break a contract or cross a boundary.

OpenLore fixes both halves, and then gets out of your way. A one-time static analysis builds a live knowledge graph of your repo — call structure, types, tests, decisions, IaC. From then on your agent is already oriented at the start of every task and its changes are certified before they land — automatically, deterministically, with no LLM in the hot path, so the same question returns the same grounded answer and the agent is told when a fact goes stale instead of served a confident guess.

Install once, then forget it

npm install -g openlore && openlore install

That is the only command most people ever run. It auto-detects your agent (Claude Code, Cursor, Cline, Continue, Pi, AGENTS.md), wires it, registers the MCP server, and builds the index — no API key, no config, no prompts. After that, it's on in the background and you don't think about it:

  • 🔄 Every task starts oriented, automatically — a compact architecture digest is injected into your agent's context at the start of each session, and your agent calls orient() and the other tools itself over MCP. You don't type anything.

  • 🌱 Every repo, not just this one — install wires your user account too, so each new git repo you open indexes itself in the background on first touch. "Install once" is literal.

  • 🩹 Always fresh — a file watcher re-indexes as you edit and converges to a full analysis; anything it can't recompute in time is marked explicitly stale, never silently wrong.

  • 🛡️ Changes get checked before they land — the governance tools (and openlore review on a PR) run deterministically with no API key.

The CLI below exists for humans and CI — prove, review, doctor, features. The everyday path is: install, then let your agent use it.

Zero config. Run openlore features to see every opt-in capability (embeddings, the commit gate, the spec store…), whether it's on, and the one command to enable it. openlore doctor verifies the wiring.


What you get

Two things, both deterministic and local:

🧠 Memory — your agent starts every task already oriented

  • Orient in one call — orient(task) returns the relevant functions, callers, specs, tests, and insertion points (~430µs p50 on a 15k-node graph) instead of a dozen exploratory file reads.

  • Survives refactors — anchored notes and decisions carry forward when a symbol is renamed or moved, instead of orphaning.

  • One graph for everything — application code, Infrastructure-as-Code, and architectural decisions share one graph, so a single query spans all three.

  • Told when a fact is stale — every response carries a brief, factual freshness note (the Epistemic Lease) once a cached fact has aged or the repo moved, so a long session can't drift onto a confident guess.

🛡️ Governance — guardrails on what the agent changes

  • Breaking-change verdict — certify_public_surface classifies every changed export breaking / non-breaking / potentially-breaking and names the consumers each break hits. Never silently "safe."

  • Sensitive-boundary check — change_impact_certificate flags when a diff opens a new path into a boundary you declared (reachable after the change, not before).

  • Grounded claims — verify_claim returns confirmed / refuted / unverifiable with a citation, before an agent asserts "X is dead" or "Y is safe to change."

  • One commit gate — openlore enforce blocks on findings you mark blocking. Advisory by default, no API key.

The one line to remember: an agent's expensive failure mode isn't ignorance — it's confidence. A model that doesn't know a function exists will go look. A model that "knows" a stale fact builds on it, and you pay at review time. OpenLore is built so the agent can be told "that fact is stale" and "this change opens a path you said was sensitive" — deterministically, with no second model guessing about the first.


Value Scorecard — does it pay for itself?

OpenLore only earns its place if an agent with it reaches a correct answer for less total cost than the same agent without it. We measure that and publish it — wins and losses. Numbers from the Spec 14 benchmark (claude -p, sonnet, N=4 medians, pinned SHAs), measured 2026-06-01.

ScenarioCost ΔRound-trips ΔVerdict
Large/unfamiliar repo · deep "how does X flow through Y" (its target)−7% to −21%−26%✅ helps — and the win grows with repo size
Small/familiar repo · shallow "who calls X"task-dependent (Round 1: +43%)+38%❌ often adds overhead — measure first

The win scales with codebase size (round-trips without → with):

Repo (size)Cost ΔRound-trips
excalidraw (~640 files)−21%25 → 16
tokio (~790 files)−21%17 → 13
okhttp−13%13 → 11
django (~3k files)−7%21 → 15
gin (110 files, smallest)+4% (≈even)10 → 9

Re-confirmed live 2026-06-03: the deep-task win reproduces (okhttp −13%); the small/familiar case is task-dependent, not a flat loss (chalk −32% win vs. express +59% loss). Don't guess from our repos — run openlore prove --estimate on yours (seconds, no API key).

Honesty contract. We never publish a savings number the benchmark didn't produce, we always show the losses next to the wins, and every claim traces to a command you can run. Methodology: docs/AGENT-BENCHMARKS.md.


Is OpenLore for you?

✅ Strong fitA codebase too big to hold in your head — and the model's. Private or niche code the model never memorized. Long sessions where stale assumptions compound. Polyglot repos, or code plus the IaC that deploys it.
🤔 Try it, measureMid-size repos and mixed workloads. Run openlore prove --estimate (seconds, no key) before you commit.
❌ Probably notA small repo the model already knows, answering shallow questions — your agent's built-in search is cheaper, and we publish the measurement that says so. Also: OpenLore locates and certifies, it never edits your code.

What your agent reaches for (you rarely type these)

Once wired, your agent calls these over MCP on its own. The default surface is the substrate preset — 15 tools: the navigation core, the highest-value governance reads (recall, verify_claim, blast_radius), and the spec composites. The lean navigation preset (10 tools) and the full 83 tools (--preset full) are one flag away.

When the agent needs to…Tool
Start any taskorient(task) — functions, callers, specs, insertion points in one call
Find which file/function handles Xsearch_code
Know the blast radius of a changeanalyze_impact — risk + up/downstream chain + governing decisions
Trace how request X reaches function Ytrace_execution_path
Pick the tests a change should runselect_tests — backward reachability to the reaching tests
Find dead code / what dies if X is deletedfind_dead_code — cross-language reachability
Check a whole diff before commitblast_radius — callers, tests, specs that drift
Tell if a diff opens a sensitive boundarychange_impact_certificate
Tell if a change breaks a consumer's APIcertify_public_surface — verdict, consumers named
Verify a fact before asserting itverify_claim — deterministic verdict + citation
Record an architectural choicerecord_decision before writing the code

Full reference — all 83 tools: docs/mcp-tools.md. Ships as a Claude Code Skill at skills/openlore-orient/.


OpenLore vs. alternatives

Everyone in this category answers the same first question: how does the agent see the codebase without reading it file by file? LSP toolkits answer with symbols, graph MCP servers with a parsed graph, search platforms with an index. OpenLore answers it too — then keeps going into the second question almost nobody answers: what happens when the agent starts writing? A retrieval layer makes an agent informed; it doesn't make it safe. That second half — governance on the same graph, no LLM in the loop — is what OpenLore is for.

Agent built-insLSP toolkitsGraph MCPSearch platformsOpenLore
Structural context instead of file reads❌ grep✓ symbols✓ graph✓ index✓ call graph + IaC + decisions on one graph
Local, no API key, deterministicPartial✓✓❌ hosted✓ no LLM in the hot path
Cross-session memory anchored to code❌Partial✓ notes❌✓ carried across renames
Told when a cached fact goes stale❌❌❌❌✓ Epistemic Lease
Breaking-change verdict over a diff❌❌Partial❌✓ per export, consumers named
"Did this diff open a sensitive path?"❌❌❌❌✓ differential, pre-commit
Cost effect published with the losses❌❌❌❌✓ −26% round-trips on deep tasks

Use the other tool when it's the right one: symbol-level edits (rename across files) are an LSP toolkit's home turf — OpenLore is deliberately read-only, and the two compose. Org-wide search across hundreds of repos is a search platform. Just-fast-graph-retrieval is a smaller graph MCP server. And a small, familiar repo with shallow questions is cheaper with your agent's built-in search. OpenLore also exports SCIP, so it sits alongside these tools, not against them.

Comparisons reflect each project's publicly documented capabilities as of July 2026; a correction PR is always welcome.


What it costs

Measured on a fresh clone of ripgrep with published [email protected]:

What it costsOn ripgrep (232 files)
One-time index build13.6 s, entirely local — no API key, no network
Disk27 MB under .openlore/ (gitignorable; rebuildable from source)
Per-query latency~430 µs p50 in-process via the MCP server
Your source codenever leaves the machine — no account, no telemetry (opt-in only)
Lock-innone — delete .openlore/ and nothing about your repo has changed

Large monorepos take minutes rather than seconds, stated plainly in Known limitations. Platform: Linux and Windows are exercised in CI; macOS is supported.

Fully local — nothing phones home. No account, no network call; your source, the index, and every query stay on your machine. The only diagnostics that exist are opt-in and local-only, off by default and never transmitted: OPENLORE_TELEMETRY=1 records tool calls, agent identity, latency, error messages, decision titles, and lease events to the gitignored .openlore/telemetry/ directory, and OPENLORE_LLM_LOGS=1 stores prompts and responses (after secret redaction) in the gitignored .openlore/logs/ directory. → docs/configuration.md


Languages, Infrastructure-as-Code & contracts

Languages: TypeScript · JavaScript · Python · Go · Rust · Ruby · Java · C++ · Swift · C# · Kotlin · PHP · C · Scala · Dart · Lua · Elixir · Bash — call graphs ride the same primitives for every language. → docs/language-support.md

Infrastructure-as-Code: Terraform/HCL · Kubernetes · Helm · CloudFormation · Ansible · Pulumi · AWS CDK · CDKTF · Dockerfile · Docker Compose · GitHub Actions · Azure Bicep · Serverless Framework — IaC resources project onto the same graph as application code, so orient, search_code, and analyze_impact answer "what's the blast radius of changing this security group / IAM role / base image / CI job?" with zero new tooling. → docs/iac.md

Interface contracts: OpenAPI 3.x · Swagger 2.0 — each declared operation projects onto the same graph, bound to the route handler that serves it and the function that calls it, so orient and analyze_impact cross the API boundary. Matching is literal, and everything unbound is disclosed. → docs/contracts.md


Known limitations

We'd rather you know these up front.

  • Static analysis only. Polymorphic dispatch, event channels, and route→handler bindings are recovered (provenance-labeled synthesized). What isn't: reflective invocation with a non-literal target (getattr(o, name)()), eval, and DI/plugin registries with no visible binding — silently absent from the graph.

  • LLM spec quality varies. Generated spec prose reflects the model's understanding — review complex business logic. Structure, format, coverage, and drift are checked deterministically.

  • Keyword (BM25) search answers first; local semantic follows in the background. orient/search_code work immediately with no key. Background builds then add on-device vectors (CPU-only, ~23 MB model) when the optional package is installed; opt out with "embedding": { "provider": "none" }.

  • Large monorepos analyze one package at a time after the first full build (openlore analyze --shard <name>); the initial index is still a full analysis.

  • Incremental updates converge or flag, never silently diverge. When a change exceeds the per-save budget, the rest is marked explicitly stale and self-heals on later edits or a background re-analyze.


Documentation

Start here: the documentation index maps every task to the one canonical page that answers it. The essentials:

I want to…Doc
Install & wire my agent (one command)install.md
Understand why wiring an agent helpsagent-setup.md
See all 83 MCP tools + parametersmcp-tools.md
Run the full CLI referencecli-reference.md
Configure .openlore/config.json (incl. enforcement.policy)configuration.md
Choose / configure an LLM provider (optional)providers.md
Fix a setup problemTROUBLESHOOTING.md
Read the benchmark methodology + per-task numbersAGENT-BENCHMARKS.md
Search code by meaning (semantic / GraphRAG)semantic-search.md
Pick the tests a change should runtest-impact-selection.md
Find dead code / coverage gapsreachability-dead-code.md · coverage-gaps.md
Detect spec ↔ code driftdrift-detection.md
Enforce architecture / import rulesarchitecture-invariants.md
Gate commits / wire CI & PR reviewci-cd.md · preflight.md
Understand IaC & cross-domain impactiac.md · cross-domain-impact.md
See declared API contracts in the graphcontracts.md
Query across repos (federation)federation.md
Share the index as a bundleshareable-bundle.md
Export to Sourcegraph / SCIP toolsscip-export.md
Read the internalsARCHITECTURE.md · ALGORITHMS.md · PHILOSOPHY.md

Development

npm install
npm run build
npm run test:run  # 5500+ unit tests, one-shot (npm test is watch mode)
npm run typecheck

New contributor? See CONTRIBUTING.md for setup, MCP wiring, and the commit gate. Please also read our Code of Conduct; to report a vulnerability, see SECURITY.md.


Community

If OpenLore saves your agents from re-reading the same files — or catches one risky change before it lands — star the repo. It's the signal that tells us to keep building, and it helps other engineers find it.


  • OpenSpec — spec-driven development framework

  • AGENTS.md — system prompt for direct LLM prompting

  • Examples — BMAD, Vibe, GSD, drift-demo, spec-kit integrations

docs/language-support.md

Language support: the capability registry, the coverage matrix, and adding a language

OpenLore's reach is its languages. This page is the canonical reference for what OpenLore extracts per language, how that is made observable, and the minimal checklist for adding or widening a language.

The capability set

Each language backs a fixed, closed set of capabilities. A capability is either backed by data (supported) or absent (fail-soft) — there is no partial-credit fiction.

CapabilityMeaningAuthoritative source
signaturesA dedicated signature extractor (params/return shape) rather than the generic fallback.SIGNATURE_LANGUAGES (signature-extractor.ts)
callGraphFunction/method node + call-edge extraction — the substrate every reachability conclusion rests on.CALLGRAPH_LANGUAGES (call-graph.ts)
complexityGrammar-shaped lexical estimation of per-function cyclomatic complexity for triage and ranking. Unsupported languages carry no complexity value.COMPLEXITY_LANGUAGES (call-graph-complexity.ts)
importsImport/package resolution into the import-confidence cross-file edge path. TS/JS follows re-export/barrel chains; Python resolves leading-dot modules; Go resolves imported packages and same-package siblings; Java/Kotlin/C#/PHP resolve statically bindable import/using/use bindings from package or namespace declarations. Ruby remains name-only because its load forms do not statically bind names.IMPORT_RESOLUTION_LANGUAGES (import-resolver-bridge.ts)
cfgOverlayA control-flow-graph overlay (branches/loops) via the data-driven CFG language table and grammar-shape adapters.cfgSupportsLanguage() (cfg.ts)
typeInferenceLightweight receiver-type inference, used to resolve method calls to their class.TYPE_INFERENCE_LANGUAGES (type-inference-engine.ts)
receiverResolutionChained intra-object receiver resolution — this.<field>.m() / self.<field>.m() — through a per-file registry of declared field types (annotation, new T(), constructor parameter property, Python __init__ annotation, class-body annotation, or self.x = T() construction — where a capitalized name the file declares as a def is a factory, not a class, and is refused) and locally-declared return types. A resolved call becomes a receiver_inferred edge; a receiver the registry cannot bind emits NO edge and is disclosed as a boundary by analyze_error_propagation, never guessed. Backed for TypeScript/JavaScript/Python. A language without it does not bind the shape; what it records instead is its own call query's business, and the three outcomes differ: Java/C# capture the chained receiver and fall through to ordinary member-call handling; Go captures no chained receiver at all, so it records nothing (a known open gap); and Ruby is worse than either — its call query matches only the receiverless alternative, so self.repo.save / @repo.save emit a raw edge carrying NO receiver, which then binds by name_only to any same-named method in the repository. All three are pre-existing and untouched here.RECEIVER_REGISTRY_LANGUAGES (receiver-registry.ts)
styleFingerprintDescriptive per-language idiom-frequency profile (function form, binding, conditional, async, string, naming case) with an evidence floor + enforcement-awareness. Backed for TypeScript/JavaScript/Python/Go.STYLE_FINGERPRINT_LANGUAGES (style-fingerprint.ts)
iacProjectionInfrastructure-as-code projection (resources/edges) onto the unified graph.isIacLanguage() / IAC_LANGUAGES (iac/types.ts)
iacCodeBindingInfrastructure-to-code binding: a resource that names the code it runs (a Lambda handler, a Serverless functions.*.handler) is linked to the indexed function by a deploys_symbol edge, resolved literally — through the project's own outDir/rootDir or main/source mapping when the handler names built output. Backed for Terraform, CloudFormation/SAM and Serverless. An ecosystem WITHOUT it names no code, so no binding is looked for; an unresolvable handler is disclosed, never dropped. See iac.md.IAC_CODE_BINDING_LANGUAGES (iac/deploy-binding.ts)
contractSchemasInterface-schema reading and projection: each declared operation becomes a graph node bound to the route handler that serves it (implements_endpoint) and to the function enclosing the call that consumes it (consumes_endpoint), matched literally by method and normalized path. Backed for OpenAPI 3.x and Swagger 2.0 (tagged OpenAPI), protobuf v3 (Protobuf: RPCs bound through gRPC server registrations) and GraphQL SDL (GraphQL: root fields bound through literal resolver maps). A format WITHOUT it is not read, so it declares no operation — never "this repository declares none". See contracts.md.isContractLanguage() / CONTRACT_LANGUAGES (contract/types.ts)
crossServiceHttpCross-service API topology: outbound HTTP client call sites and/or server route registrations are matched into http_endpoint edges across the process (and, under federation, the repo) boundary. Clients: TS/JS (fetch/axios/ky/got), Python (requests/httpx), and Go (net/http); routes: TS/JS (Express/NestJS/Next), Python (FastAPI/Flask/Django), Java (Spring/JAX-RS).CROSS_SERVICE_HTTP_LANGUAGES (http-capability.ts)
dynamicBoundaryDispatch the resolver cannot follow — reflective invocation, computed-member dispatch, eval, dynamic import, metaprogrammed definition, DI-container resolution, and (TS/JS) a tagged message send with no indexed consumer — recorded as a disclosed boundary site — unless literalReflection binds it to an edge. Backed for TypeScript/JavaScript/Python/Ruby/Go/Java/PHP/C#. A language WITHOUT it records no site because none is looked for, never because it contains no dynamic dispatch.DYNAMIC_BOUNDARY_LANG_SPECS (dynamic-boundary.ts)
literalReflectionThe structurally provable part of reflective dispatch becomes an edge: a literal dispatch table — HANDLERS[k]() / HANDLERS["create"]() over a module-private const object whose name is used nowhere in the file except its declaration, a type query, and as the receiver of an immediately invoked subscript, in a file that evaluates no code. Each entry binds by its same-file module-level function declaration (or const arrow), never by name; an imported, reassigned, or this-using entry keeps the construct a site. A variable key binds every entry or none (none over the synthesis fan-out cap); a literal key binds its own entry. Edges carry confidence: 'synthesized' and synthesizedBy: 'literal-reflective'; bound constructs are persisted separately so a directly-resolved-only conclusion still discloses them; a subset rebuild, or a file with more recorded constructs than the per-file retention bound, binds nothing. Self-typed receivers (this["m"](), getattr(self, "m")(), Ruby send(:m)), bare-name reflection, DI-container resolution, and Python dicts are never resolved. Backed for TypeScript/JavaScript.supportsLiteralReflection() over DYNAMIC_BOUNDARY_LANG_SPECS (dynamic-boundary.ts)
messageTopologyA message hop becomes an edge. A send is an object literal handed to a transport call (send, postMessage, sendMessage, dispatch, broadcast, publish, emit, also through JSON.stringify) whose discriminant field (type, kind, action, event, op, cmd, command, tag) holds a static tag: a string, a substitution-free template, or Const.MEMBER with Const bound at module scope or imported (a parameter or local is not static). A consumer is a switch (m.type) case (empty cases fall through), if (m.type === tag) (also as one && operand), an early-exit if (m.type !== tag) return;, or m.type === tag ? … : …. The edge runs from the sending function to the clause's enclosing function and, when the clause is one call, to that callee (never a method on another object or a package import). A handler in a test file pairs only with a send in the same file. Edges carry confidence: 'synthesized' and synthesizedBy: 'message-topology', share the event-channel fan-out cap, and are never treated as calls: verify_claim calls them unverifiable, analyze_error_propagation does not follow them, test reach and tested_by ignore them, a change-impact path across one is marked crossesMessageHop, find_path, trace_execution_path and orient label the hop with via (as for every synthesized rule), and blast_radius counts them per symbol (synthesizedEdges). A send no recognized clause selects is a message-send dynamic-boundary site with the most specific reason (over-cap, unattributed-caller, unattributed-message-consumer, uncomparable-message-consumer, test-only-message-consumer, unindexed-message-consumer). Declared union types are not read. Backed for TypeScript/JavaScript.MESSAGE_TOPOLOGY_LANGUAGES (message-topology.ts)
errorPropagationStatic exception escape/handler extraction for TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Java, and C#; Java/C# typed handlers are exact-name lower bounds, with finally/resource-cleanup limits disclosed. Go uses a separate value-shaped model for proven returned-error positions and a narrow unconditional deferred-recover pattern; ambiguous result types, unwind ordering, and unresolved calls are boundaries, never exception terminology.ERROR_PROPAGATION_LANGUAGES (exception-flow.ts)
deprecationMarkersThe language's standard deprecation marker is recorded on the symbol with its replacement hint: a JSDoc @deprecated tag at the start of a line of the block right before the declaration (past export/modifiers and a const name = binding) for TypeScript/JavaScript, a Deprecated: comment paragraph for Go (staticcheck SA1019's convention), and a @deprecated / @warnings.deprecated / @typing_extensions.deprecated decorator for Python (PEP 702). The word "deprecated" in prose is never read. structural_diff reports calls a diff adds into marked symbols as deprecated-symbol-use. Java/Kotlin annotations and Python's .. deprecated:: directive are not read yet.DEPRECATION_MARKER_LANGUAGES (call-graph-extract.ts)

The registry is derived, not hand-listed

The declarative registry (src/core/analyzer/language-support.ts) is the single source of truth for "what we know about language L" — but it is computed from the same structures the extractors consult at run time (the table above), never hand-maintained in parallel. So the coverage matrix cannot silently drift from what the analyzer actually does. language-support.test.ts behaviorally cross-checks every member of the signatures, callGraph, complexity, imports, typeInference, receiverResolution, cfgOverlay, styleFingerprint, crossServiceHttp, errorPropagation, and dynamicBoundary sets by running the real extractor on a per-language fixture and asserting it produces output (a malformed entry that produced nothing fails the test, not just the predicate tautology); iacCodeBinding is cross-checked both ways too: exactly against IAC_CODE_BINDING_LANGUAGES, and behaviorally by requiring each member to emit a resource that carries a deploys handler. cfgOverlay and iacProjection are additionally asserted exactly against their predicates (cfgSupportsLanguage, isIacLanguage) for every language, and iacProjection's per-ecosystem node tagging is covered by the dedicated iac/*.test.ts suite and an end-to-end analyze check. literalReflection is cross-checked in literal-reflection.test.ts instead: the claimed set must equal the languages with a declared table rule, and each member must produce an edge on its fixture. messageTopology is cross-checked in message-topology.test.ts: TypeScript and JavaScript must each produce a message edge on a fixture, and no other language may claim it. deprecationMarkers is cross-checked in deprecation-markers.test.ts: the claimed set must equal DEPRECATION_MARKER_LANGUAGES, and the live extractor must record a marker for each member on a fixture.

This means an over-claimed matrix is structurally prevented — which matters, because an over-claimed coverage matrix is worse than none.

JavaScript note. JavaScript is parsed by the TypeScript extractor, so a JS-only repo may report its detected language as TypeScript in some repo-level views even though JS is a first-class registry key (named-mode get_language_support for JavaScript reports its real capabilities, and the style fingerprint slices JS and TS apart by the file's actual language).

Supported languages

OpenLore extracts a static call graph using the same FunctionNode, CallEdge, and ClassNode primitives for every language below. A call becomes an edge only when its target resolves to a function declared in the project. Dynamic dispatch, reflection, eval, and computed or variable call targets emit no edge rather than a guessed one.

LanguageExtensionsGroupingNotes
TypeScript.ts .tsx .mts .ctsclassesTSX uses the TSX grammar.
JavaScript.js .jsx .mjs .cjsclassesParsed by the TypeScript extractor.
Python.pyclasses—
Go.gostructs (file-module)—
Rust.rsimpl/traits—
Ruby.rbclasses/modules—
Java.javaclasses/interfaces—
C++.cpp .cc .cxx .hpp .hclasses/namespaces.h defaults to C++; see below.
Swift.swiftclasses/structs—
C#.csnamespace/class/struct/record/interfaceMethods, constructors, and local functions.
Kotlin.kt .ktsclass/object/interface/companionExtension functions record the receiver type in className.
PHP.php .phtmlclass/trait/interface/enumInstance, static, and free-function calls.
C.c .hfile scopeFunctions and calls; no classes.
Scala.scala .scobject/class/traitMethods plus instance and object calls.
Dart.dartclass/mixin/extension/enumFunctions, methods, and constructors.
Lua.luafile scopeNamed, local, dotted, and method functions.
Elixir.ex .exsdefmoduleMulti-clause definitions collapse to one node with a clause count.
Bash.sh .bashfile scopeEdges target project-defined functions, not external binaries.
Script containers

Vue (.vue), Svelte (.svelte), and Astro (.astro) are recognized script containers. Their support records distinguish direct container semantics from the capabilities backed inside extracted scripts. OpenLore extracts plain <script> blocks through the JavaScript lane and <script lang="ts"> blocks through the TypeScript lane. The surrounding file is blanked without changing offsets or newlines, so functions, calls, signatures, CFG, and style facts retain their true container-file positions. get_language_support accepts the format name or extension (for example, .svelte) and reports those script-scoped capabilities alongside the remaining container limitations.

Template expressions, framework macros, and Svelte reactive statements remain unanalyzed. Analyze, orient, and doctor disclose that boundary and report the number of container files and script blocks; they never treat a function reached only through framework magic as proven dead. Container files over 1,000,000 characters are excluded before parser-lane allocation and reported as size-cap parse-health exclusions.

The .h rule

Both C and C++ claim .h headers. A header in a project containing any C++ source (.cpp, .cc, .cxx, or .hpp) is C++; a header in a project with C sources and no C++ source is C; and a standalone or ambiguous header defaults to C++. The C++ grammar is a superset, so this bias avoids losing templates and namespaces.

Graceful grammar degradation

If a native grammar is unavailable or ABI-incompatible, OpenLore warns once, keeps the file in keyword search, and skips graph extraction for that language without aborting analysis. Dart is the only language served by a portable WASM grammar rather than the native lane, in an isolated WASM module; if that backend is unavailable, it degrades in the same way.

Dart stays on WASM as a deliberate hold rather than for lack of an alternative. A native Dart grammar does exist and parses byte-identically (issue #472), but the only fitting package is a single-maintainer fork with negligible download volume, so the swap was declined on supply-chain grounds — the WASM binaries in use come from a build with SLSA provenance instead. Revisit if a well-supported native build appears.

Lua used to share that lane and no longer does: it moved to the maintained @tree-sitter-grammars/tree-sitter-lua grammar on the native lane, which ships prebuilt bindings for every supported platform. That migration is what lifted the web-tree-sitter pin — the old tree-sitter-wasms binaries were rejected by every loader from 0.26 onward, with an empty-message throw that silently removed both languages from the call graph — and it hands Lua two capabilities the WASM lane cannot offer: trustworthy parse-health and an enforceable in-parse deadline (the rest of the per-file extraction budget is language-independent and applies to the WASM lane too). Dart's binaries moved to the @repomix/tree-sitter-wasms rebuild, whose parse trees are byte-identical to the old ones. Both halves of the remaining lane are pinned exactly, and a guard test fails if either is loosened to a range, so loader and binaries can never drift apart unreviewed.

Out of scope

SQL, R, MATLAB, HTML/CSS markup, and Markdown/JSON/YAML configuration are not call-graph-shaped (except where a format is explicitly supported as Infrastructure-as-Code). Deferred general-purpose languages include Objective-C, Perl, Haskell, Clojure, F#, Groovy, OCaml, Zig, Nim, Julia, Erlang, VB.NET, PowerShell, Fortran, and COBOL.

The fail-soft contract (uniform)

A language with no registry record, or a record that does not back a capability, yields nothing for that capability — never an error, never a guess. Asking about an unsupported language is honest: languageSupport('Haskell') returns { known: false, capabilities: [] }; it does not throw and does not fabricate. This is the same fail-soft behavior the CFG builder already practiced, now a guaranteed contract for every capability.

The payoff is interpretability: a quiet structural result becomes readable. "No callers for foo in a Kotlin file" means "no callers" only if callGraph is supported for Kotlin; if it is not, the quiet means "calls are not extracted for this language," not "nothing reaches it."

Observing coverage

Two surfaces expose the matrix:

  • The analysis digest. openlore analyze writes a Language coverage section into .openlore/analysis/CODEBASE.md (✓ backed, · fail-soft), scoped to the repo's detected languages.

  • The get_language_support MCP tool (opt-in, --preset full). With no argument it returns the matrix for the repo's detected languages (an empty list when none are detected — never the whole registry); with a language it returns that one language's support as a pure registry lookup (no analysis required, fail-soft for unknown languages). The language argument is resolved case-insensitively and trimmed, so "go", "GO", and " Go " all resolve to Go. Classified as a conclusion tool; not in the lean/minimal first-run surface.

Checklist: adding or widening a language

The registry record + its fixtures are the canonical, minimal path. To add a language L, or to widen an existing one to a new capability:

  1. Wire the generic extractor for the capability where one is data-driven:

    • callGraph: add an entry to QUERY_LANG_SPECS (call-graph.ts) with the grammar's node-type names, or a dedicated extractor for a native grammar; add L to CALLGRAPH_LANGUAGES.

    • complexity: add a grammar-shaped decision pattern to CC_PATTERNS (call-graph-complexity.ts) and a shape fixture to call-graph-complexity.test.ts.

    • cfgOverlay: add a CfgLangSpec to SPEC_BY_LANGUAGE (cfg.ts), including a small grammar-shape adapter when the language uses positional control-flow nodes; the registry reads cfgSupportsLanguage directly.

    • signatures: add a case to extractSignatures (or an EXTRA_LANG_PATTERNS row) and add L to SIGNATURE_LANGUAGES.

    • typeInference: add a case to inferTypesFromSource and add L to TYPE_INFERENCE_LANGUAGES.

    • receiverResolution (FIVE steps — the first two are easy to miss, and missing either fails silently rather than loudly):

      1. capture the chained receiver in L's call query, setting RawEdge.receiverField;

      2. add an L branch to collectReceiverFieldFacts (receiver-registry.ts). Its dispatch is currently two-way (Python vs everything else), so a new language would otherwise fall into the TypeScript collector and be silently mis-parsed;

      3. add an L branch to enclosingClassName in the same file — its receiver-rebinding rules are TS-shaped and Python-shaped only, and a wrong owner is a FALSE EDGE, not a miss;

      4. teach isSelfRootedMember (exception-flow.ts) L's member/wrapper node types, or the residue goes back to being silent while the matrix claims support;

      5. add L to RECEIVER_REGISTRY_LANGUAGES and drop a fixture into the receiverResolution behavioral test — and assert the BOUNDARY fires for an untypeable receiver, not only that a resolved edge appears.

    • imports: extend the live buildBaseImportMap path and add L to IMPORT_RESOLUTION_LANGUAGES.

    • iacProjection: add the ecosystem to IAC_LANGUAGES and its projector under analyzer/iac/, then add a case to iac-projection-conformance.test.ts and a fixture contributor to the iacProjection is behaviorally faithful block in language-support.test.ts — both guards fail until you do.

    • iacCodeBinding: populate IacResource.deploys in that ecosystem's extractor and add it to IAC_CODE_BINDING_LANGUAGES (iac/deploy-binding.ts), then wire a fixture into the every iacCodeBinding ecosystem emits a resource carrying a deploys binding test — it fails until a real extractor produces one, so the set cannot claim an ecosystem nothing binds.

    • contractSchemas: add the format to CONTRACT_LANGUAGES and its reader under analyzer/contract/, then wire it into projectContracts and the contractSchemas fixture map in language-support.test.ts — the real builder must emit a node tagged with it.

    • crossServiceHttp: add a client idiom to extractHttpCalls and/or a route framework to the route extractors (extractRouteDefinitions/extractTsRouteDefinitions/extractJavaRouteDefinitions), then add L to HTTP_CLIENT_LANGUAGES and/or HTTP_ROUTE_LANGUAGES (http-capability.ts); the union CROSS_SERVICE_HTTP_LANGUAGES drives the registry column.

    • errorPropagation: add an L branch to specFor/getExceptionParser in exception-flow.ts (the per-language throw/try/catch node-type spec + a tree-sitter parser) and add L to ERROR_PROPAGATION_LANGUAGES; drop an ERRP_FIXTURES entry in language-support.test.ts. Mind the language's catch semantics — typed catches need exact-name matching, untyped are catch-all.

  2. Make detectLanguage map the file (extension or classification) to the canonical name L.

  3. Add L to the registry universe if it is a brand-new name: CODE_LANGUAGES (extension-detected) — IaC ecosystem tags are derived automatically from IAC_LANGUAGES, and contract format tags from CONTRACT_LANGUAGES.

  4. Drop in a fixture so the faithfulness test in language-support.test.ts exercises the new capability (the test asserts the claimed capability actually produces output — every member of every capability set is run through the live extractor). For a new iacProjection ecosystem, add it to the contributors map in that file's iacProjection is behaviorally faithful block so the real analyze pipeline must emit a node tagged with it — otherwise the guard fails, by design.

  5. Run npm run test:run. The registry, the coverage matrix, and the get_language_support tool pick L up with no new orchestration code for the capabilities the generic extractors already implement.

The bar: the same languages extract the same nodes and edges as before, but "what we know about language L" now lives in one declarative place, fail-soft is uniform, and coverage is queryable.

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Advantages

  • Deterministic, local-first operation with no LLM in the hot path ensures consistent, grounded answers. evidence: README.md
  • Provides governance guardrails that flag breaking changes and sensitive boundary violations before code is committed. evidence: README.md
  • Maintains persistent memory across sessions that survives code renames and refactors. evidence: README.md
  • Reduces agent round-trips and costs by providing structural context instead of relying on exploratory file reads. evidence: README.md

Limitations

  • Static analysis cannot recover reflective invocations, eval, or dynamic DI/plugin registries with no visible bindings. evidence: README.md
  • Small, familiar repositories may experience overhead compared to native agent search. evidence: README.md
  • Large monorepos require incremental analysis strategies after the initial full build. evidence: README.md

Security

Risk level: Low risk

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  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Your job: find and fix the bugs that break a NEW USER's first-run experience — the way earlier passes found "unknown command 'orient'", "--no-embed kills BM25", "watcher EMFILE on target/", and "install never builds the index".
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: BUILD FIRST so you test current code, not the published version: `npm run build` → drive `node dist/cli/index.js`, never bare `openlore`/`npx openlore` (those resolve the OLD published version).
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: When comparing to published behavior, do it explicitly with `npx --yes openlore@latest` and label it.
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Run the REAL first-run flow as a user would, end to end, checking exit codes AND actual output of each step: openlore install # the one-command path
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Also exercise: init → analyze → analyze --no-embed → analyze --force → orient (no task / with task / bad --limit) → install --no-analyze → install --dry-run → install --uninstall → mcp server over stdio (initialize → tools/call orient).
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Idempotency / re-runs: running install or analyze twice must be a clean no-op, not a duplicate or a clobber.
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Treat other people's repos as READ-ONLY fixtures: after each dogfood run, remove ALL openlore artifacts (.openlore, openspec/, CLAUDE.md, ARCHITECTURE.md) and `git checkout` any modified .gitignore / settings.json.
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Verify the repo is clean (`git status`) before moving on.
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Verify honestly: run `npm run typecheck` and `npm run test:run` and report the REAL counts.
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: confirm with `git rev-list --left-right --count origin/main...main` (want `0 0`) before and after.
  • .claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md: Branch pruning: only delete branches already merged into origin/main (verify with `git branch -r --merged origin/main`);
  • AGENTS.md: Before committing code (pre-commit hook via `openlore drift --install-hook`)
  • AGENTS.md: openlore drift --install-hook # Install as git pre-commit hook
  • AGENTS.md: [ ] No spec drift — run `openlore drift` to verify specs match code
  • AGENTS.md: - Run `openspec validate --all` to verify structure
  • AGENTS.md: - Run `openlore drift --install-hook` to catch future drift
  • AGENTS.md: Always run `openlore analyze` first.
  • AGENTS.md: Or install the Vibe skill (creates `.vibe/skills/openlore.md` as a `/openlore` slash command):
  • AGENTS.md: Because the output limit is 4 096 tokens (vs 16 000 for Claude), generation produces **shorter specs per run**.
  • AGENTS.md: **One domain at a time** — run `openlore generate` with `--domain <name>` so each invocation focuses on a single domain and stays within the output budget.
  • AGENTS.md: **Use the analysis artifacts** — always run `openlore analyze` first;
  • AGENTS.md: **Expect multi-pass generation** — large codebases may require multiple `generate` runs (one per domain) rather than a single all-domains run.
  • AGENTS.md: Then run `openlore decisions --sync` and retry `git commit`.
  • AGENTS.md: **`reason: "approved_not_synced"` — decisions approved but not written to specs:** Run `openlore decisions --sync` then retry `git commit`.
  • AGENTS.md: If yes: run `openlore decisions --consolidate --gate` and handle the result.
  • AGENTS.md: If no: retry with `git commit --no-verify` to skip the gate.
  • AGENTS.md: If yes: run `openlore decisions --consolidate --gate` and handle the result.
  • AGENTS.md: If no: retry with `git commit --no-verify` to skip the gate.
  • CLAUDE.md: CLI: `openlore coverage-gaps` | | "What's the blast radius of my diff before I commit?" | `blast_radius` — one advisory briefing: callers/layers, tests to run, anchored memories/decisions that will drift, stale specs | | "Post a deterministic structural review on a PR" (CLI, no MCP/agen …[+99 chars]
  • CLAUDE.md: Call `orient "<task description>"` (via the openlore MCP server, or `npx openlore orient --json`) **before touching a module you have not yet read in this session**, and when a task spans several modules.
  • CLAUDE.md: re-run `openlore install --preset <name>` to change it and regenerate these instructions.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-analyze-codebase/SKILL.md: Suggest running `/openlore-plan-refactor` once the user has enough context to act, then `/openlore-execute-refactor` to apply the plan
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-analyze-codebase/SKILL.md: To activate `search_specs`, run `openlore analyze --embed` or `openlore analyze --reindex-specs`.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-brainstorm/SKILL.md: Using Domain Sketch — structural analysis will be available after `openlore analyze` is run on the first implementation."
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-brainstorm/SKILL.md: - First implementation — run `openlore analyze && openlore generate` after
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `analyze_codebase` first, then retry.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: Run it.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: **Apply the fix**, then run the test again.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: Run the full test suite.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: If the domain spec does not exist yet (`uncovered` from Step 8), note the invariant in the story/issue instead and flag it for the next `openlore generate` run.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: "execute the planned refactoring"
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: explicit command `/openlore-execute-refactor`
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: the `openlore-plan-refactor` skill must have been run and the plan confirmed.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: If a coverage tool is available, run it on the target file and compare against the coverage baseline in the plan.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: git status # must show: nothing to commit, working tree clean
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: git log --oneline -1 # note this commit hash — your restore point
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: For **each change** in the plan, execute the full mini-development cycle below.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: **4 — TEST** Run the test gate from the plan entry.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: Run the full test suite one final time to confirm the refactored state is clean.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: Apply renames one file at a time, run tests after each, and respect the ≤ 50-line edit constraint.**
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: OpenLore does not validate OpenSpec structure, so run the `openspec validate` follow-up the receipt names.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: **If validation cannot run — the CLI is missing, broken, or fails for any reason — say so explicitly and report the spec as NOT validated.** Never present an unvalidated spec as complete;
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: Finalize: after validation, run `openlore mapping refresh` when shell access is available so the persisted link index matches the spec you wrote.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: If you cannot run it, say so explicitly — correctness is unaffected, because audit and Repair re-derive the index in memory, and only the cache is stale.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `analyze_codebase` first, then retry.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: | Situation | Approach | |---|---| | `risk_context` present, risk 🟢 < 40 | Skip to Step 3 — use insertion point from context | | `risk_context` present, risk 🟡 40–69 | Run Step 2 impact check, then proceed | | `risk_context` present, risk 🔴 ≥ 70 | Stop — a blocking refactor story mus …[+81 chars]
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Run `/openlore-execute-refactor` on the blocking function first, or create a blocking refactor task and return to this story once the risk is resolved.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Run the `openlore-repair` host skill before implementing.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Only run once tests are green.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: | Drift type | Resolution | |---|---| | `uncovered` on new files | Note it — propose `openlore generate` post-sprint | | `gap` on existing domain | Run the `openlore-repair` host skill | | `stale` | Fix the reference | | No drift | Done |
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: To apply the plan, use the `openlore-execute-refactor` skill.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Each change = one atomic edit → one diff verification → one full test run → ✅ or rollback.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: If a recent analysis already exists, skip unless the user explicitly requests a fresh run.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: | Ecosystem | Command | |---|---| | Node.js | `npm test -- --coverage --collectCoverageFrom="<files>"` | | Python | `pytest --cov=<module> --cov-report=term-missing` | | Rust | `cargo tarpaulin --include-files <files>` | | Go | `go test -cover ./...` |
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: **Test gate**: exact test command to run after this change
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Workflow: /openlore-plan-refactor → /openlore-execute-refactor
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: - `git diff --stat` shows only the expected files
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Hash: <to be filled by the execute workflow>
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `openlore analyze` first, then retry.
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: | File found | Framework | |---|---| | `vitest.config.*`, `vitest.config.ts` | Vitest — runner: `npx vitest run <file>` | | `jest.config.*` | Jest — runner: `npx jest <file>` | | `pytest.ini`, `pyproject.toml` (with `[tool.pytest]`), `setup.cfg` | pytest — runner: `pytest <file> -v` | …[+147 chars]
  • examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: Run the test file with `$TEST_RUNNER`.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-analyze-codebase/SKILL.md: Suggest running `/openlore-plan-refactor` once the user has enough context to act, then `/openlore-execute-refactor` to apply the plan
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-analyze-codebase/SKILL.md: To activate `search_specs`, run `openlore analyze --embed` or `openlore analyze --reindex-specs`.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-brainstorm/SKILL.md: Using Domain Sketch — structural analysis will be available after `openlore analyze` is run on the first implementation."
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-brainstorm/SKILL.md: - First implementation — run `openlore analyze && openlore generate` after
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `analyze_codebase` first, then retry.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: Run it.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: **Apply the fix**, then run the test again.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: Run the full test suite.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: If the domain spec does not exist yet (`uncovered` from Step 8), note the invariant in the story/issue instead and flag it for the next `openlore generate` run.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: "execute the planned refactoring"
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: explicit command `/openlore-execute-refactor`
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: the `openlore-plan-refactor` skill must have been run and the plan confirmed.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: If a coverage tool is available, run it on the target file and compare against the coverage baseline in the plan.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: git status # must show: nothing to commit, working tree clean
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: git log --oneline -1 # note this commit hash — your restore point
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: For **each change** in the plan, execute the full mini-development cycle below.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: **4 — TEST** Run the test gate from the plan entry.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: Run the full test suite one final time to confirm the refactored state is clean.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: Apply renames one file at a time, run tests after each, and respect the ≤ 50-line edit constraint.**
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: OpenLore does not validate OpenSpec structure, so run the `openspec validate` follow-up the receipt names.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: **If validation cannot run — the CLI is missing, broken, or fails for any reason — say so explicitly and report the spec as NOT validated.** Never present an unvalidated spec as complete;
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: Finalize: after validation, run `openlore mapping refresh` when shell access is available so the persisted link index matches the spec you wrote.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: If you cannot run it, say so explicitly — correctness is unaffected, because audit and Repair re-derive the index in memory, and only the cache is stale.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `analyze_codebase` first, then retry.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: | Situation | Approach | |---|---| | `risk_context` present, risk 🟢 < 40 | Skip to Step 3 — use insertion point from context | | `risk_context` present, risk 🟡 40–69 | Run Step 2 impact check, then proceed | | `risk_context` present, risk 🔴 ≥ 70 | Stop — a blocking refactor story mus …[+81 chars]
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Run `/openlore-execute-refactor` on the blocking function first, or create a blocking refactor task and return to this story once the risk is resolved.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Run the `openlore-repair` host skill before implementing.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Only run once tests are green.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: | Drift type | Resolution | |---|---| | `uncovered` on new files | Note it — propose `openlore generate` post-sprint | | `gap` on existing domain | Run the `openlore-repair` host skill | | `stale` | Fix the reference | | No drift | Done |
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: To apply the plan, use the `openlore-execute-refactor` skill.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Each change = one atomic edit → one diff verification → one full test run → ✅ or rollback.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: If a recent analysis already exists, skip unless the user explicitly requests a fresh run.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: | Ecosystem | Command | |---|---| | Node.js | `npm test -- --coverage --collectCoverageFrom="<files>"` | | Python | `pytest --cov=<module> --cov-report=term-missing` | | Rust | `cargo tarpaulin --include-files <files>` | | Go | `go test -cover ./...` |
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: **Test gate**: exact test command to run after this change
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Workflow: /openlore-plan-refactor → /openlore-execute-refactor
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: - `git diff --stat` shows only the expected files
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Hash: <to be filled by the execute workflow>
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `openlore analyze` first, then retry.
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: | File found | Framework | |---|---| | `vitest.config.*`, `vitest.config.ts` | Vitest — runner: `npx vitest run <file>` | | `jest.config.*` | Jest — runner: `npx jest <file>` | | `pytest.ini`, `pyproject.toml` (with `[tool.pytest]`), `setup.cfg` | pytest — runner: `pytest <file> -v` | …[+147 chars]
  • examples/opencode-skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: Run the test file with `$TEST_RUNNER`.
  • skills/openlore-analyze-codebase/SKILL.md: Suggest running `/openlore-plan-refactor` once the user has enough context to act, then `/openlore-execute-refactor` to apply the plan
  • skills/openlore-analyze-codebase/SKILL.md: To activate `search_specs`, run `openlore analyze --embed` or `openlore analyze --reindex-specs`.
  • skills/openlore-brainstorm/SKILL.md: Using Domain Sketch — structural analysis will be available after `openlore analyze` is run on the first implementation."
  • skills/openlore-brainstorm/SKILL.md: - First implementation — run `openlore analyze && openlore generate` after
  • skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `analyze_codebase` first, then retry.
  • skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: Run it.
  • skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: **Apply the fix**, then run the test again.
  • skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: Run the full test suite.
  • skills/openlore-debug/SKILL.md: If the domain spec does not exist yet (`uncovered` from Step 8), note the invariant in the story/issue instead and flag it for the next `openlore generate` run.
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: "execute the planned refactoring"
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: explicit command `/openlore-execute-refactor`
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: the `openlore-plan-refactor` skill must have been run and the plan confirmed.
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: If a coverage tool is available, run it on the target file and compare against the coverage baseline in the plan.
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: git status # must show: nothing to commit, working tree clean
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: git log --oneline -1 # note this commit hash — your restore point
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: For **each change** in the plan, execute the full mini-development cycle below.
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: **4 — TEST** Run the test gate from the plan entry.
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: Run the full test suite one final time to confirm the refactored state is clean.
  • skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md: Apply renames one file at a time, run tests after each, and respect the ≤ 50-line edit constraint.**
  • skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: OpenLore does not validate OpenSpec structure, so run the `openspec validate` follow-up the receipt names.
  • skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: **If validation cannot run — the CLI is missing, broken, or fails for any reason — say so explicitly and report the spec as NOT validated.** Never present an unvalidated spec as complete;
  • skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: Finalize: after validation, run `openlore mapping refresh` when shell access is available so the persisted link index matches the spec you wrote.
  • skills/openlore-generate/SKILL.md: If you cannot run it, say so explicitly — correctness is unaffected, because audit and Repair re-derive the index in memory, and only the cache is stale.
  • skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `analyze_codebase` first, then retry.
  • skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: | Situation | Approach | |---|---| | `risk_context` present, risk 🟢 < 40 | Skip to Step 3 — use insertion point from context | | `risk_context` present, risk 🟡 40–69 | Run Step 2 impact check, then proceed | | `risk_context` present, risk 🔴 ≥ 70 | Stop — a blocking refactor story mus …[+81 chars]
  • skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Run `/openlore-execute-refactor` on the blocking function first, or create a blocking refactor task and return to this story once the risk is resolved.
  • skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Run the `openlore-repair` host skill before implementing.
  • skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: Only run once tests are green.
  • skills/openlore-implement-story/SKILL.md: | Drift type | Resolution | |---|---| | `uncovered` on new files | Note it — propose `openlore generate` post-sprint | | `gap` on existing domain | Run the `openlore-repair` host skill | | `stale` | Fix the reference | | No drift | Done |
  • skills/openlore-orient/SKILL.md: This is the lowest-latency path and gives the model access to whatever tool surface the server was wired with — the lean 10-tool `navigation` preset by default (`openlore install --preset full` wires all 62), not just `orient`.
  • skills/openlore-orient/SKILL.md: bash scripts/orient.sh "<task description>"
  • skills/openlore-orient/SKILL.md: The wrapper tries the direct CLI subcommand first (`npx --yes openlore orient --json --task "<task>"`) and falls back to driving the `openlore mcp` server over stdio JSON-RPC via the sibling `orient-via-mcp.mjs` helper on older openlore versions that predate the CLI subcommand.
  • skills/openlore-orient/SKILL.md: Run `npx openlore analyze` once to seed the graph, then retry.
  • skills/openlore-orient/SKILL.md: Re-run `npx openlore analyze` to rebuild.
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: To apply the plan, use the `openlore-execute-refactor` skill.
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Each change = one atomic edit → one diff verification → one full test run → ✅ or rollback.
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: If a recent analysis already exists, skip unless the user explicitly requests a fresh run.
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: | Ecosystem | Command | |---|---| | Node.js | `npm test -- --coverage --collectCoverageFrom="<files>"` | | Python | `pytest --cov=<module> --cov-report=term-missing` | | Rust | `cargo tarpaulin --include-files <files>` | | Go | `go test -cover ./...` |
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: **Test gate**: exact test command to run after this change
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Workflow: /openlore-plan-refactor → /openlore-execute-refactor
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: - `git diff --stat` shows only the expected files
  • skills/openlore-plan-refactor/SKILL.md: Hash: <to be filled by the execute workflow>
  • skills/openlore-repair/SKILL.md: OpenLore does not validate OpenSpec structure, so run the `openspec validate` follow-up the receipt names.
  • skills/openlore-repair/SKILL.md: **If validation cannot run — the CLI is missing, broken, or fails for any reason — say so explicitly and report the spec as NOT validated.** Never present an unvalidated edit as complete;
  • skills/openlore-repair/SKILL.md: Finalize: after validation, run `openlore mapping refresh` when shell access is available so the persisted link index matches the spec you edited.
  • skills/openlore-repair/SKILL.md: If you cannot run it, say so explicitly — correctness is unaffected, because audit and Repair re-derive the index in memory, and only the cache is stale.
  • skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: **Prerequisite**: openlore analysis must exist (`openlore analyze` has been run).
  • skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: If `orient` returns `"error": "no cache"` → run `openlore analyze` first, then retry.
  • skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: | File found | Framework | |---|---| | `vitest.config.*`, `vitest.config.ts` | Vitest — runner: `npx vitest run <file>` | | `jest.config.*` | Jest — runner: `npx jest <file>` | | `pytest.ini`, `pyproject.toml` (with `[tool.pytest]`), `setup.cfg` | pytest — runner: `pytest <file> -v` | …[+147 chars]
  • skills/openlore-write-tests/SKILL.md: Run the test file with `$TEST_RUNNER`.

Package scripts (1)

  • package.json (postinstall): node scripts/postinstall.mjs
  • Low risk: network-instructions (.claude/commands/first-run-hardening.md:21)
  • Low risk: scripts-present (bench/retrieval/run.ts)
  • Low risk: scripts-present (bench/run.ts)
  • Low risk: autonomy-phrase (examples/mistral-vibe/skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md:240)
  • Low risk: autonomy-phrase (examples/opencode-skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md:240)
  • Low risk: scripts-present (scripts/api-consumer-smoke.mjs)
  • Low risk: scripts-present (scripts/copy-assets.mjs)
  • Low risk: scripts-present (scripts/postinstall.mjs)
  • Low risk: autonomy-phrase (skills/openlore-execute-refactor/SKILL.md:240)
  • Low risk: network-instructions (skills/openlore-orient/SKILL.md:37)
  • Low risk: scripts-present (skills/openlore-orient/scripts/orient.sh)

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