dependency_analysisTier 1 · 70% confidence

ai-agents-dependency-analysis-ai-coding-assistants-lack-awareness-of-full-codeba-f2a14d35

agent: ai_agents

When does this happen?

IF AI coding assistants lack awareness of full-codebase dependencies before making changes, leading to broken imports and broken builds.

How others solved it

THEN Build a deterministic dependency graph using tree-sitter to provide exact symbol-level relationships. Parse source files across all supported languages, extract imports/exports, and store as a directed graph. Serve this graph via MCP tools so AI can query dependents and dependencies before modifying code. Avoid probabilistic methods like embeddings or vector search.

Use tree-sitter to parse source files and extract imports/exports. Store as directed graph. Expose queries: get_dependents(symbol) returns exact files that import it.

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