Ariadne
Ariadne's thread — a way out of the microservice maze.
Cross-service API dependency graph for Spring Boot + TypeScript microservice stacks. MCP stdio server for AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf), with a CLI twin. Local SQLite + TF-IDF. Zero ML dependencies.
What it does
Indexes the contract layer — GraphQL mutations, REST endpoints, Kafka topics, frontend queries. Nothing else. That's why results fit an AI context window.
Ask Claude "where does createOrder live across the stack?" and
query_chains returns:
Top Cluster #1 [confidence: 0.91]
Services: gateway, orders-svc, billing-svc, web
- [web] Frontend Mutation: createOrder
- [gateway] GraphQL Mutation: createOrder
- [orders-svc] HTTP POST /orders: createOrder
- [orders-svc] Kafka Topic: order-created
- [billing-svc] Kafka Listener: order-created → chargeCustomer~500 tokens round-trip. The equivalent grep -r createOrder across
four repos returns 40+ matches across DTOs, tests, and configs at
~2000 tokens, with the contract layer buried.
