Bevel README

Bevel is a tool that helps you understand legacy or highly complex codebases using code visualizations and AI-assisted code analysis.

Overview

Bevel transforms complex codebases into interactive documentation and visualizations, helping developers understand code structure and relationships. Combined with AI-powered assistance, Bevel makes code exploration, documentation, and modification more intuitive.

Features

Interactive Code Visualization

• Automatically generate multiple types of diagrams based on your codebase
• Navigate code structures through interactive graph-based visualizations
• Explore dependencies, class hierarchies, and function relationships
• CodeLens integration for quick function visualization

AI-Powered Business Context Extraction

• Extract business logic and domain knowledge from codebases
• Generate documentation and explanations for complex code
• Transform technical implementations into business terminology
• Connect code artifacts to business requirements and objectives

Knowledge Graph Creation with REST API

• Build comprehensive knowledge graphs representing code relationships
• Access generated graphs through a REST API for integration with other tools

The way to access these should be configured in the config file.

Usage

After installing Bevel, you can:

1. Analyze your project using the "Bevel: Re-/Analyze Project" command
2. Extract business context for files or functions
3. Generate visualizations with "Call Graph" command in codelens.
4. Use Bevel Chat (powered by Cline!) to ask questions or request modifications to your codebase

Feedback and Support

Email juan@bevel.software for any issues, happy to answer ASAP!

Release Notes

1.0.0

First public release of Bevel