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Specter: Give Your Codebase a Voice
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Specter: Give Your Codebase a Voice

via Dev.toElizabeth Stein

This is a submission for the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge What I Built Specter is a code analysis CLI that speaks as your codebase in first person. It builds a knowledge graph from your source code and git history, then uses that graph to power 66 commands across analysis, fun/shareable, daily workflow, and AI-powered categories. The twist: Specter has personality. Your codebase literally talks about itself. "I'm feeling pretty good about myself. My complexity hotspots are under control, though src/legacy/parser.ts keeps me up at night..." Why I Built It Developer tools are powerful but dry. Nobody shares a SonarQube report on Twitter. I wanted to build something that gives developers the insights they need (health scores, complexity hotspots, DORA metrics) while also being genuinely fun to use and share. The result: a tool where specter roast tears your code apart with animated glitch effects, specter tinder creates a dating profile for your codebase, and specter anthem generates a th

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