dev-spec-kit-graphify

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name: dev-spec-kit-graphify description: dev-spec-kit's optional code-graph provider — the external Python graphify tool (multi-modal: indexes PDFs, images, and video alongside code). Opt-in only. Use to decide when graphify is worth its install over the bundled revitify default, how to install and configure it, and how dev-spec-kit verifies and falls back when it is absent. For the build/read loop itself, see dev-spec-kit-graph.

graphify — the external, multi-modal opt-in provider

graphify is an external Python tool (CLI graphify, PyPI package graphifyy — double-y). Its one advantage over the bundled revitify default is reach: it indexes non-code artifacts — PDFs, images, video — alongside source. It is opt-in and worth installing only when the spec's evidence actually lives in those artifacts.

When to opt in (and when not to)

• Opt in only when a requirement depends on non-code material graphify can read and revitify cannot. That is the entire reason this provider exists.
• For a code-only project, do not opt in — the bundled revitify default gives the same graph contract with zero install. See dev-spec-kit-revitify.

Install & configure

1. Install: pip install graphifyy && graphify install (the package is graphifyy; the CLI stays graphify).
2. Switch the provider: set graphify.provider to graphify in .dev-spec-kit/config.json.
3. Verify: dev-spec-kit doctor reports it as installed or missing.

Because it honors the same graphify-out/graph.json contract as revitify, switching is just that config change plus a rebuild — specs and proofs are untouched.

Safety net

If graphify.provider is graphify but the tool is not installed, dev-spec-kit does not break — it degrades to the spec/test overlay only and tells you so. The code-graph features simply run on the bundled revitify provider until graphify is present. dev-spec-kit never hard-fails on a missing external provider.

Provenance

graphify is MIT (source: github.com/safishamsi/graphify) — verify the repo yourself before trusting a build. It is the upstream that revitify ports; here it is an optional external tool, never bundled.

Rules

• You MUST run dev-spec-kit doctor to confirm graphify is installed before relying on its output.
• NEVER opt into graphify for a code-only project just to "have more" — the install cost buys nothing there, and the bundled revitify default is the correct choice.
• graphify-out/ is derived — NEVER commit it; regenerate via dev-spec-kit graph build.
• For the build/refresh wrapper, reading the graph, and the staleness re-prove dance, follow dev-spec-kit-graph — those mechanics are provider-agnostic and identical here.