Code Intent Visualizer (No AI)

Code Intent Visualizer is a VS Code extension concept and scaffold for understanding codebases through deterministic static analysis instead of AI inference.

What it does

• Parses TypeScript and JavaScript files with the TypeScript compiler API
• Extracts functions, imports, exports, call relationships, and JSDoc intent tags
• Builds a dependency graph across files and functions
• Shows inline and hover context with CodeLensProvider and HoverProvider
• Groups files by feature using directory structure like features/auth
• Displays downstream impact analysis in a webview panel

Supported intent tags

Use JSDoc comments above functions or exported declarations:

/**
 * @intent Validate login credentials before API submission
 * @feature auth
 * @impact Changes affect sign-in and session bootstrap
 */
export async function submitLogin() {
  // ...
}

Current scope

This scaffold focuses on:

• deterministic analysis
• explainable relationships
• incremental refresh hooks
• a foundation for richer graph and flow visualization

Next ideas

• Add Babel parsing for non-TypeScript syntax edge cases
• Resolve non-relative imports using tsconfig.json path mappings
• Add "find callers" and "find dependents" commands
• Render richer flow lanes like function -> service -> api -> ui