Understand Anything — Codebase Knowledge Graph Skill by [ara.so](https://ara.so) — Daily 2026 Skills collection. Understand Anything is a [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude code) plugin that runs a multi agent pipeline over your project, builds a knowledge graph of every file, function, class, and dependency, and opens an interactive React dashboard for visual exploration. It produces plain English summaries of every node so anyone — developer, PM, or designer — can understand the codebase. Installation Via Claude Code plugin marketplace From source (development) Core Skills / Commands Command What it does /understand Run the full multi agent analysis pipeline on the current project /understand dashboard Open the interactive knowledge graph dashboard /understand chat <question Ask anything about the codebase in natural language /understand diff Analyze impact of current uncommitted changes /understand explain <path Deep dive explanation of a specific file or function /understand onboard Generate an onboarding guide for new team members Typical Workflow 1. Analyze a project This orchestrates 5 agents in sequence (with file analyzers running up to 3 concurrent): 1. project scanner — discovers files, detects languages/frameworks 2. file analyzer — extracts functions, classes, imports; builds graph nodes and edges 3. architecture analyzer — groups nodes into architectural layers (API, Service, Data, UI, Utility) 4. tour builder — generates ordered learning tours 5. graph reviewer — validates referential integrity Output is saved to .understand anything/knowledge graph.json in your project root. 2. Open the dashboard The React + Vite dashboard opens in your browser. Features: Graph view — React Flow canvas, color coded by layer, zoom/pan Node inspector — click any node for code, relationships, LLM summary Search — fuzzy + semantic search across all nodes Tours — guided walkthroughs ordered by dependency Persona mode — toggle detail level (Junior Dev / PM / Power User) 3. Ask questions 4. Review diff impact before committing Returns a list of affected nodes in the knowledge graph — shows ripple effects before you push. 5. Explain a specific file Knowledge Graph Schema The graph is stored at .understand anything/knowledge graph.json . Key types (from packages/core ): Working with the Core Package Programmatically Dashboard Development The dashboard is a Vite + React 18 app using: React Flow — graph canvas rendering Zustand — graph state management TailwindCSS v4 — styling Fuse.js — fuzzy search web tree sitter — in browser AST parsing Dagre — automatic graph layout Project Structure Incremental Updates Re running /understand only re analyzes files that changed since the last run (based on mtime and content hash stored in the graph metadata). For large monorepos this makes subsequent runs fast. To force a full re analysis: Development Commands Common Patterns Before a code review Onboarding a new engineer Researching a feature area Understanding an unfamiliar module Troubleshooting /understand times out on large repos The file analyzer runs up to 3 workers concurrently. Very large repos ( 50k files) may need patience. Delete .understand anything/ and re run if a previous run was interrupted. Dashboard doesn't open Run pnpm filter @understand anything/dashboard build first if working from source, then retry /understand dashboard . Stale graph after major refactor Delete .understand anything/knowledge graph.json to force full re analysis: rm .understand anything/knowledge graph.json && /understand pnpm install fails with workspace errors Ensure you are using pnpm v8+: pnpm version . The project uses pnpm workspaces defined in pnpm workspace.yaml . Search returns no results Confirm the graph was generated: cat .understand anything/knowledge graph.json head 5 . If empty or missing, run /understand first. Contributing License: MIT © [Lum1104](https://github.com/Lum1104)

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