Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase
Details
- External ID
- 48836813
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Onboard-CLI, a LLM powered and AST-based tool to visualize codebase
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- July 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 24
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7508960573476703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- developer tools and programming utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- llm-powered codebase visualization tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a CLI tool that parses codebases into Abstract Syntax Trees using off-the-shelf parsers (like Tree-sitter) and feeds summaries to an LLM to generate architecture diagrams.
Discussion
14 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Graph-based solutions for codebase visualization, Internal tooling for codebase understanding
Concerns raised: C++ codebase support not confirmed, Long-term maintenance and support unclear, Visualization lacks meaningful abstraction beyond line references, No actual code visualization shown in demo video, Works with non-compiling code unclear
Feature requests: LLM integration for semantic code behavior explanation, Higher-level code path visualization beyond line references, Better support for C++ codebases, Integration with architecture extension systems
Competitors
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Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
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