ichal1113/cartographer
🗺️ Map and document your codebase effortlessly with Cartographer, a Claude Code plugin that uses parallel AI to analyze and synthesize code insights.
What's novel
🗺️ Map and document your codebase effortlessly with Cartographer, a Claude Code plugin that uses parallel AI to analyze and synthesize code insights.
Code Analysis
7 files read · 3 roundsA Claude Code plugin that runs a Python directory scanner to count tokens per file, then uses a markdown prompt (SKILL.md) to instruct Claude to spawn parallel subagents that read and summarize the codebase into a CODEBASE_MAP.md document.
Strengths
The scanner script is well-structured with good error handling, sensible defaults for ignoring binary/generated files, and clean output formatting. The SKILL.md is a well-organized prompt document with clear workflow steps, token budget planning, and practical examples.
Weaknesses
The top-level README is severely misleading, describing a non-existent desktop GUI application with .exe/.dmg downloads. There are zero tests, and the 'AI-powered mapping' is entirely delegated to Claude's native file-reading and summarization capabilities with no novel algorithms or custom ML logic.
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Commits
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Contributors
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Files
9
Active weeks
3
Repository
Language
Python
Stars
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Forks
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