A SaaS platform providing AST-based structured code analysis to enhance navigation, search, and understanding in large projects.

Repository: google-gemini/gemini-cli Author: gundermanc This EPIC tracks a series of investigations as to whether there is value in AST aware file read, search, or codebase mapping. AST aware tools can be used to 1) more precisely read method bounds with a single tool call, reducing turns from misaligned reads, and reducing noise in tokens, 2) navigate to usages and definitions of syntax elements via syntax aware search (AST grep), and 3) compress high level context about the codebase, such as the location of specific classes and their members by collapsing code down to just top level classes and types and their children's signatures. Tools mentioned include tilth (Rust), glyph (Go), ast-grep (Rust), and Universal Ctags (C) which enable mapping and searching symbols and structures in codebases efficiently.