Gortex

Also known as: gortex code intelligence, zzet/gortex

An open-source code-intelligence engine that parses a codebase into a persistent knowledge graph and exposes it to AI coding agents via MCP (the Model Context Protocol). Agents query the graph instead of reading raw files, cutting token usage by up to 50x.

AI coding agents typically navigate a codebase the slow way: they grep for a function, read a whole file to find it, follow an import chain into another file, and repeat until the context window is mostly filled with code the agent will never use. Gortex attacks this problem by parsing every file with tree-sitter (a code parsing library) and storing the result as a graph: functions, classes, call chains, HTTP routes, and cross-service contracts, all queryable.

When an agent needs context, it asks the Gortex MCP server for the three functions it actually needs rather than loading a whole file. The project claims up to 50x fewer tokens per response as a result. It is a single static binary written in Go, 100% local, with no cloud dependency or telemetry by default, and it supports 257 programming languages.

Gortex ships with out-of-the-box integrations for most major coding agents and IDEs, including Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Kiro, Aider, Cline, Gemini CLI, and others. It trended on GitHub in late September 2026 and is worth evaluating for any team whose AI coding agent regularly burns through context window on large codebases.

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