# KarLex AI releases Graphicle to give coding agents local code graphs and memory

Digest AI · Agents & Tools · published 2026-10-14T15:00:41Z

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## Summary

KarLex AI has released Graphicle, an open-source tool written in Rust that provides coding agents with project memory and a local code graph. The software is released under the Apache-2.0 license and serves as a native port of Safi Shamsi's Graphify, adding memory management, session capture, and a local web interface.

The tool operates locally on macOS and Linux without requiring accounts, telemetry, or API keys for core graph operations. Graphicle integrates with coding tools such as Claude Code, Cursor, and Codex through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). It tracks repository structure using tree-sitter, links reviewed decisions to specific functions, and provides agents with cited code excerpts bounded by token budgets. KarLex AI reports that in an exploratory test indexing Kubernetes (31,000 files), Graphicle finished in 3 minutes 18 seconds compared to 26 minutes 38 seconds for Graphify 0.9.88 on the same 16-CPU Linux hardware.

Graphicle stores all graphs and past sessions in a local SQLite file. While basic code analysis runs without an AI model, generating natural language answers or indexing non-code documents requires a local or cloud-based model. A commercial team edition is currently in private preview.

## Key points

- KarLex AI launched Graphicle, an Apache-2.0 licensed Rust port of Graphify featuring code graphs and memory for coding agents.
- The tool connects via MCP to agents like Cursor and Claude Code, running locally using tree-sitter without mandatory external API calls.
- In a Kubernetes benchmark of 31,000 files, Graphicle completed code-only extraction in 3 minutes 18 seconds versus Graphify's 26 minutes 38 seconds.

## Why it matters

Graphicle gives developer agents accurate repository context and persistent memory locally, reducing token costs and external data exposure while speeding up index times.

## Sources

1. [Show HN: Graphicle, a Rust port of Graphify with memory for coding agents](https://github.com/graphicle-ai/graphicle) (github.com, 2026-10-14, primary source)

## Cite

Digest AI, "KarLex AI releases Graphicle to give coding agents local code graphs and memory", 14 October 2026, https://digestai.news/story/karlex-ai-releases-graphicle-to-give-coding-agents-local-code-graphs-a

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