RepoWiki

Judgement

What it is

Developer tool

What it does

A Python command-line tool that scans a local project or GitHub repository and uses an LLM to generate wiki documentation, with a PageRank-based reading guide, terminal Q&A and export to Markdown, JSON or HTML. It also has a web interface.

Adopt it when

You want DeepWiki-style documentation of a codebase, including private or local repos, generated on your own machine.

Watch out

The pages are written by a language model with your own API key, so they can be wrong and each scan costs tokens.

Ready for

Usable

Runs as

Command line and self-hosted server

Built with

Python, SQLite and TypeScript

How established

Young: started 6 months ago, latest release v0.6.0.

What the license allows

You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.

Judged on 2026-11-06 from the project's README and GitHub data. The license and age lines are worked out directly.

Built from

Follow it down: RepoWiki → CPython → GCC → LLVM project → runs on a microchip

How compilers were built, back to punched paper tape

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