Practical overview
When it fits
Use Codesight when preparing a codebase for AI-assisted development, especially when a reusable project wiki or MCP-accessible context is useful across sessions.
Who it is for
- Developers who want AI coding assistants to receive structured context about a codebase.
- Teams using project knowledge articles across repeated coding sessions.
- Users of MCP-compatible coding assistants who want to retrieve codebase context through tools.
Documented uses
- Generate a compact overview of a codebase for an AI assistant.
- Create a wiki with articles about architecture, routes, database models and other project areas.
- Generate configuration files for named coding assistants.
- Inspect the reported blast radius of a file.
- Expose project context through an MCP server.
Requirements & limits
The repository documents a CLI run through npx and lists Node.js 18 or later as a requirement. The project is public and licensed under MIT.
- TypeScript projects receive AST-based analysis; the README describes regex-based detection for the other listed languages.
- The wiki workflow creates
.codesight/wiki/articles and can be kept current with documented watch and hook options. - Codesight can provide information as generated files and reports or through MCP tools.
- The repository lists support for 30+ framework detectors and 14 ORM parsers.
Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.
Generate codebase context from a project root
Create Codesight context files for an AI coding assistant.
Before you start
- Node.js 18 or later
- A project directory
Steps
Open a terminal in the project root.
Run the command below.
npx codesight
Expected outcome
Codesight generates codebase context for an AI assistant.
Guide limitations
- The README describes the command and its generated context but does not specify the exact default output files.
Generate a project wiki
Create a persistent, article-based knowledge base from a codebase.
Before you start
- Node.js 18 or later
- A project directory
Steps
Open a terminal in the project root.
Run the command below.
npx codesight --wiki
Expected outcome
Codesight generates a wiki under `.codesight/wiki/`, including an index and project-topic articles.
Guide limitations
- The documented wiki is compiled from code structure; the README says this workflow makes no API calls.
Sources & review
Source record details
- Source availability
- Active
- Sources checked
- 12 October 2026
- Original website title
- Houseofmvps/codesight · Official homepage title · retained in its source language