CodeWise

Every dev drowns in code. CodeWise opens the mine wide. Offline, private, accurate AI that makes codebases transparent with zero hallucinations. Miss this, and you miss the future of tech!

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The Analogy

In today’s world, technology is as valuable as gold, rare, precious, and defining competitive edge and as powerful as oil, abundant, but only transformative once refined. Codebases sit at the heart of this value, yet most of their wealth is locked away in complexity and obscurity. CodeWise is the key and the refinery: it mines that hidden gold by making code instantly explorable, and it refines that raw oil by turning messy repositories into clear, actionable knowledge. In an era where code is both treasure and fuel, CodeWise ensures companies don’t just own the resourc, they can fully harness it.

Inspiration

Code is a company’s most valuable asset. Developers waste weeks just learning where things live, drowning in files, grep commands, and docs. They open up code assistants but guess what? after 15k lines even they hallucinate and provide innacurate results while being incredibly slow! We asked: what if your repo could answer back instantly, privately, locally and accurately? That’s the spark behind CodeWise.

What it does

CodeWise is the AI navigator for codebases. Think of it as Google Maps for your repo:

Ask natural questions like “How does checkout flow work?”

Get line-accurate answers with where the line of code is, what function is it wrapping, in what files is it used.

Runs fully offline—no code leaks, no cloud dependency, We love gpt oss for this.

Turns onboarding from a 2-week slog into a 2-hour ramp-up.

Makes every developer a domain expert on Day 1, and in an economy where tech is your gold mine, you definitely need more miners in the mine.

This isn’t autocomplete. This is unlocking the hidden goldmine of your existing code.

And i understand not always codebases are on github sometimes they are in a local server too, so codewise works on local codebases out of the box

CLI support for people who would prefer using the quick and stable shell over the beautiful ui

How we built it

Semantic indexing + graph traversal We parse the repo into a knowledge graph of functions, classes, and dependencies—making complex flows explorable like a roadmap.

LLM-powered query engine Natural language gets mapped into semantic + structural searches, combining embeddings with code graph lookups for high-precision results.

Grounded answers Every answer comes with exact file/line references—cutting hallucinations to near-zero and building developer trust.

Local-first architecture Everything runs in your environment: speed, privacy, zero IP leaks. No sending your crown-jewel code to the cloud. if you want you can plugin your huggingface gpt oss inference too!

Optimized for scale Tested with repo having 350k + lines of code, all answers were sub 15 secs. From startups to enterprise monoliths, it just works.

Supercharged with Amazon Kiro IDE We harnessed Kiro’s agentic AI workflows for spec-driven dev and automation—letting CodeWise plug directly into structured coding pipelines. This gave us the backbone to move from prototype to production-grade in record time.

Challenges we ran into

Building a system that balances speed, scale, and accuracy—without ballooning compute costs.

Preventing semantic drift when the repo updates frequently.

Designing an interface that’s hype-level simple, but power-user capable.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Delivered a working project that navigates massive repos .

People and friends called it “the missing link between code and Copilot.”

Nailed the trifecta: private, accurate, fast—something no current tool truly combines.

What we learned

Trust is currency in developer tools—citations matter more than fancy answers.

Enterprises demand offline-first, privacy-first AI, no one wants to risk leaking IP.

The true bottleneck in dev velocity isn’t writing code, it’s understanding code.

What's next for CodeWise

Team knowledge mode: collaborative Q&A, turning tribal knowledge into shared intelligence.

Enterprise version: compliance, access control, audit trails.

The long play: CodeWise evolves into the AI knowledge layer for every codebase—a treasure map of institutional memory, built on top of your repo.

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