Understand Any Codebase? Understand Anything with Claude Code & Local AI

Published 11/10/2026

Description

Inherited a software project and struggling to understand how it fits together? In this hands-on Understand Anything walkthrough, I turn my .NET LLM Memory Calculator project into an interactive codebase knowledge graph using Claude Code, Strata, and a local Qwen3.8-Flash-Next model. Contents: 0:00 - Introduction 0:17 - Description 2:11 - Web Site / Github 2:50 - Install in Claude Code 4:27 - Install in Copilot 6:15 - Understand analysis 13:28 - .git Ignore 14:55 - Understand Dashboard 18:56 - Understand Dashboard Startup Issues 21:07 - Understand chat 22:02 - Understand figma 22:40 - Understand diff 23:43 - Understaind domain 25:00 - Understand explain 26:10 - Understand Knowledge 26:48 - Understand onboarding 27:57 - Updating understand 30:54 - Understand Options 33:18 - Conclusion Understand Anything maps files, classes, functions, and dependencies into an interactive dashboard, with support for coding tools including Claude Code and GitHub Copilot. It also offers architecture exploration, domain views, and guided project tours. In this video, I show how to install the tool, configure exclusions, run the analysis, and explore the resulting graph. I then test its chat, explain, domain, diff, and onboarding features to see how useful they are for navigating an unfamiliar project. The walkthrough covers: Installing Understand Anything for Claude Code and Copilot Running codebase analysis with a local LLM through Strata Scoping the analysis and excluding unnecessary files Exploring architecture, dependencies, and domain relationships Asking questions about frontend and backend interactions Generating an onboarding guide in Markdown Reviewing the impact of Git changes Keeping generated graphs and metadata in source control Updating structural and domain graphs after project changes Troubleshooting a dashboard-launch issue with a PowerShell script The initial analysis was not lightweight. My project scan found 141 files acro