How repowise works — and how it helps you
Evergreen, screenshot-rich guides to each part of repowise: the mechanism behind the feature, and the job it does for your role. Open source, reproducible, defect-validated.
repowise guides are the pillar layer between the concise feature pages and the long-tail blog. Each one teaches how a capability works and how each role uses it, with reproducible numbers and a walkthrough you can run on your own repo.
Code health
How repowise scores every file from 1 to 10 with 25 deterministic biomarkers, why the score predicts real bugs, and how to turn it into a ranked worklist you act on the same day.
14 min readAI context & MCP
How repowise indexes your repo once and serves it to AI coding agents through nine task-shaped MCP tools that collapse search, read, and reason into a single curated call.
12 min readGit intelligence
How repowise reads your git history to surface hotspots, bus factor, and hidden co-change coupling — four behavioral signals static analysis can't see, computed deterministically with zero LLM.
11 min readChange risk & PR review
How repowise scores change risk and blast radius deterministically from the real dependency graph and git history, then turns it into will_break, missing_cochanges, and missing_tests directives you act on before merge.
11 min readArchitecture & dependency graph
How repowise parses your repo into one directed dependency graph across 15 languages, ranks it with centrality, and derives browsable C4 and knowledge-graph views with no LLM in the layout path.
11 min readAuto-wiki & CLAUDE.md
How repowise writes a documentation page for every module and file, regenerates only the pages a commit touches, and generates CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md from the same index — so your docs and your agents stay current with HEAD.
11 min readDecisions & ADRs
How repowise mines architecture decisions from eight sources, backs each with evidence spans, links them to the dependency graph, ages them as the code changes, and serves the rationale over MCP via get_why.
10 min readAgent provenance
How repowise attributes commits to the AI agents that wrote them and fuses that with a defect-validated health score and bus-factor ownership to rank the AI-written code most likely to break.
10 min readSecurity
How repowise adds reachability-aware CVE triage, full-history secret detection, and in-review security signals on top of its dependency graph, and where Snyk and SAST stay the right tool.
7 min read