I'm hoping Rider get some support for switching between worktrees efficiently - until then, it becomes a tool only the primary / interactive agent sessions can access.
(Microsoft) GitHub Copilot already builds a semantic index of your solution in a cloud cache, which is used to give higher code intelligence than what you can get from Claude Code alone or LLM interfaces which don't have native support for the Roslyn API like GitHub Copilot does.
GitHub Copilot's semantic index can work for any SaaS repo provider (GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) or any local repos but this requires you to opt into the feature. Repos hosted in GitHub and Azure DevOps do NOT require opting into it since Microsoft already has your code.
Hey man, just wanted to say thanks! I pulled this down and adapted the skill for Unity development, keeping Graphify C# as an external analysis tool. My adapted skill isn’t publicly available yet, and I'm going to add it into my standard Unity Package development workflow to see if I can find some additional value in how the CLI and structured JSON make semantic information accessible to coding agents. I think this will help (maybe not on a full Unity game) but if you'r building multiple Unity Packages or have existing Unity Packages. Appreciate you sharing this!
Interesting! Have you tried it on any large code bases? I have to wonder if json is going do become unwieldy at the scale of millions of LOC - a SQLite db might be a better choice.
Interesting, thanks.
Seeing agents querying compiled code using reflection to find references looks painful and inefficient. Made me want to help little buddy somehow, but had no idea how
I'm not sure when I would use something like this. My VS copilot already writes one-off scripts that use Roslyn to analyze code. I don't even have to prompt it to do this with gpt5.5+
C#/.NET feels unreasonably effective as a target for LLMs. The reflection and compiler services are not found anywhere else and have profound effects that HN still seems to be taking massive naps on.
compiler accurate find usages is exactly the context coding agents keep missing. how heavy is the roslyn integration at runtime, does it index on save or on demand
It updates based on an interval that you can set as well as on demand. When file changes the file system watcher holds the events in memory until indexing is requested (interval/on-demand).
Very good point! the graphify the tool and using graphify AS A tool have definitely beed mixed up! I'll fix this up.
Thanks again and appreciate you looking into it!
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[ 0.24 ms ] story [ 9.6 ms ] threadGitHub Copilot's semantic index can work for any SaaS repo provider (GitLab, Bitbucket, etc.) or any local repos but this requires you to opt into the feature. Repos hosted in GitHub and Azure DevOps do NOT require opting into it since Microsoft already has your code.
Unions coming in .NET 11 / C# 15 are going to be great.
C#/.NET feels unreasonably effective as a target for LLMs. The reflection and compiler services are not found anywhere else and have profound effects that HN still seems to be taking massive naps on.