Tracebook
Codebase understanding through source-grounded stories
What it does
Helping software developers that never look at code to build software.
Local-first codebase understanding through source-grounded stories, diagrams, and annotated code. - sandro-pasquali/tracebook
Tracebook turns a codebase into source-grounded product stories: readable explanations, diagrams, and annotated code backed by the files in the repository. Ask a product question. Get a readable story grounded in repository evidence. See the complete product walkthrough. Help me understand the product story well enough to ask an LLM for the right change without breaking something important. Modern software is increasingly inherited, generated, and changed by people who did not write the underlying code. The difficult part is not only producing more code. It is understanding current behavior well enough to guide the next change. Most people "writing code" will never read it, or understand…from github.com
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