There is a trend of claiming by maintaining a graph of your codebase, your agents can save tons of tokens in understanding your codebase compared to their bash grep based toolchain workflow. I installed graphify, add the skill, install the instructions to CLAUDE.md and it adds a hook to hint Claude Code to consult the graph it builds. However, I have never seen the agents actually query the built graph even once. Instead, they always can get what they want with using my ripgrep and piping output to head or tail, and they know how to locate with line numbers and just read that portion of the file with the built in Read tool. No matter how great a tool it claims to be, if isn’t used at all, it is meaningless. I experienced the similar issues when I tried to let Claude Code to use the pare mcp tools which return json output to replace some frequently used bash commands. The only way you can force the agents to use them is using hooks to block the usage of bash commands. But that’s stupid because these tools have edge cases they can handle, and the hook forbids the bash commands fallback and the “wisdom” of the agents.
Do you really feel the graph query-based tools help your agents?
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Originally posted by u/greenhilltony on r/ClaudeCode
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