Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases

https://github.com/chunkhound/chunkhound

36•NadavBenItzhak•3h ago

ChunkHound’s goal is simple: local-first codebase intelligence that helps you pull deep, core-dev-level insights on demand, generate always-up-to-date docs, and scale from small repos to enterprise monorepos — while staying free + open source and provider-agnostic (VoyageAI / OpenAI / Qwen3, Anthropic / OpenAI / Gemini / Grok, and more).

I’d love your feedback — and if you have, thank you for being part of the journey!

Comments

dogman123•1h ago

Is there a way to have the model inside of codex to make use of chunkhound instead of its “built in” search/explore functionality with rg? Whenever I spin up a new agent using xhigh thinking it spins its wheels for a while to get up to speed — wondering if chunkhound can make this process faster.

Neywiny•44m ago

Might give this a try to experiment if it's really free to use (I'll have to read up on that I guess). The qemu codebase is huge and every contributer seems to solve problems in slightly different ways. Would be nice if this tool could help distill it.

dcreater•17m ago

you say "local-first" but have placed voyage API for embeddings as the default (had to go to the website and dig to find that you can infact use local embedding models). Please fix

bravura•11m ago

Can you please expose the functionality as a self-documenting CLI command with machine readable output? (Or did I misunderstand that MCP isn't the only way to use it?)

I am curious to try it but do not want to adopt MCP servers.

Telling Claude to call the CLI tool is more efficient.

dcreater•9m ago

Agree. And to make the CLI usage more effective/efficient, if you can publish a skill that would be excellent

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Show HN: ChunkHound, a local-first tool for understanding large codebases

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The recurring dream of replacing developers

The Olivetti Company

An Elizabethan mansion's secrets for staying warm

Below the Surface: Archeological Finds from the Amsterdam Noord/Zuid Metro Line

Raising money fucked me up

OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027

The thing that brought me joy

M8SBC-486 (Homebrew 486 computer)

If writing the code is the easy part, why would I want someone else to write it?

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There's no single best way to store information

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