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Context engines

The tools that decide what enters the context window: semantic engines, code graphs, repo packers, output filters, and local search indexes.

  • Augment Code - the coding platform whose core is a real-time semantic Context Engine feeding Auggie and Cosmos.
  • Graft - NanoNets’ MIT context layer feeding agents a code graph instead of grep, 8.4k stars in twelve weeks with every benchmark still the vendor’s own.
  • Graphify - the local AST knowledge graph exposed as a /graphify skill and MCP server, structure over similarity, no vectors.
  • qmd - Tobias Lütke’s local hybrid search engine for notes, docs, and knowledge bases, BM25 plus vectors plus reranking.
  • Repomix - the MIT CLI that packs a whole repo into one AI-friendly file, retrieval-free by design.
  • rtk - the Rust CLI proxy that filters agent command output before it enters the context window.
  • Semble - the local static-embedding-plus-BM25 code search index that indexes in under a second on any CPU, snippets instead of grep-and-read.
  • Sourcegraph code context platform - code search repositioned as the retrieval layer for agents, with value showing up above roughly 400K lines.

Its members are compared on shared rows in the Context Engines Feature Matrix.

Changes
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  • 2026-08-24 - Added Augment Code.
  • 2026-08-24 - Added Repomix.
  • 2026-08-24 - Added Sourcegraph code context platform.
  • 2026-08-30 - Added Graphify.
  • 2026-08-30 - Added qmd.
  • 2026-08-30 - Added rtk.
  • 2026-08-30 - Added Semble.
  • 2026-09-12 - Added Graft.