CGRAPH

Installation

CGraph builds from source with CMake and vcpkg. There is no prebuilt binary yet; this page covers the full build.

Prerequisites

Note

CGraph is a C++20 project. You need a recent toolchain and vcpkg for its dependencies.

CMake 3.25 or newer
Ninja
A C++20 compiler — recent Clang or GCC, or Apple Clang from the Xcode Command Line Tools
Git
vcpkg, providing curl, igraph, nlohmann-json, and utf8proc

Tree-sitter is vendored under vendor/tree-sitter, so you do not install it separately.

Point VCPKG_ROOT at an existing vcpkg, or bootstrap one inside the checkout.

export VCPKG_ROOT="/path/to/your/vcpkg"

configure, build, test

git clone https://github.com/taylor009/CGraph.git
cd CGraph
cmake --preset default
cmake --build --preset default
ctest --preset default

Extract a graph of the CGraph repository itself:

smoke test

build/default/src/cli/cgraph --root . --out cgraph-out

The binaries land under build/default/src/: the cgraph CLI, the graphd daemon, the cgraph-client thin client, and the cgraph-mcp server.

Head to the Quick Start to run the daemon and register CGraph with a coding agent.