chunkhound
Enables teams to analyze and understand large codebases without vendor lock-in or external API calls, reducing latency and protecting proprietary code while …
Local first codebase intelligence
- Ask Claude to analyze your codebase for duplicate logic across multiple files.
- Generate a map of dependencies between modules in your local project.
- Find unused functions and classes cluttering your application code.
Enables teams to analyze and understand large codebases without vendor lock-in or external API calls, reducing latency and protecting proprietary code while improving code quality and refactoring decisions.
Engineering teams managing complex legacy systems or sensitive codebases who need offline code analysis and search capabilities.
https://github.com/chunkhound/chunkhound
By chunkhound
How to Get It
claude plugins install chunkhound/chunkhound
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After installing, paste this into Claude:
Analyze my codebase for duplicate logic across multiple files
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Reviewer notes
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Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 1,350 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license MIT.
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Evaluation
Scored from trust signals (evidence-eval-v1): 1,350 GitHub stars; contributors unknown; last commit 0d ago; license MIT.