Silex — evidence-based code archaeology
Understand the codebase before changing the code.
Silex reconstructs architecture, dependencies, workflows and business rules
from your source code — and serves that understanding to your AI coding
agents via MCP. Every claim is anchored to
file:line with a verified quote. What Silex can't prove, it tells you.
Local-first. Your code never leaves your machine. No account, no card,
no telemetry.
→ Site & docs: https://silex.tec.br · Concepts · MCP tool reference · llms.txt
Install (free tier)
pip install silex-archaeology
Until the PyPI release lands you can install the wheel from
Releases:
pip install https://github.com/silex-tec/silex/releases/latest/download/silex_archaeology-py3-none-any.whl
Connect it to your MCP client (Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop, Windsurf,
Cline, Continue, Zed) — stdio config:
{
"mcpServers": {
"silex": { "command": "silex-mcp-server", "args": ["serve", "--stdio"] }
}
}
Full install guide (Windows/PowerShell notes included): https://silex.tec.br/docs/
Try it on a real codebase
Clone Microsoft's eShop (MIT) and point a
scan at it — the Concepts page shows the
community graph, the recovered order state machine and anchored findings from
that exact scan, so you can compare your output against a published reference.
What you get (free)
- Local MCP server, full codebase scan (C#, JS/TS, Java, PHP, COBOL, VB…)
- Community map — the real shape of the system, vendor/generated classified
out of the way by default
- Evidence anchored to
file:line, confidence with provenance
- Unknown-territory detection: what can't be proven is flagged, not guessed
- Shareable evidence report
- Works with the AI seat you already pay for
Pro tier (team workspaces, deep architecture visualization, refactoring
trust contracts): coming soon — join the waitlist.
Issues & feedback
Bug reports and field feedback are welcome in
Issues. The engine is proprietary; this repository hosts
distribution, documentation and the public roadmap conversation.
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