PocketFlow-Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge

Ever stared at a new codebase written by others feeling completely lost? This tutorial shows you how to build an AI agent that analyzes GitHub repositories and creates beginner-friendly tutorials explaining exactly how the code works.

This is a tutorial project of Pocket Flow, a 100-line LLM framework. It crawls GitHub repositories and builds a knowledge base from the code. It analyzes entire codebases to identify core abstractions and how they interact, and transforms complex code into beginner-friendly tutorials with clear visualizations.

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🚀 Getting Started

1. Clone this repository

   git clone https://github.com/The-Pocket/PocketFlow-Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge
   

2. Install dependencies:

   pip install -r requirements.txt
   

3. Set up LLM in utils/call_llm.py by providing credentials. To do so, you can put the values in a .env file. By default, you can use the AI Studio key with this client for Gemini Pro 2.5 by setting the GEMINI_API_KEY environment variable. If you want to use another LLM, you can set the LLM_PROVIDER environment variable (e.g. XAI), and then set the model, url, and API key (e.g. XAI_MODEL, XAI_URL,XAI_API_KEY). If using Ollama, the url is http://localhost:11434/ and the API key can be omitted. You can use your own models. We highly recommend the latest models with thinking capabilities (Claude 3.7 with thinking, O1). You can verify that it is correctly set up by running:

   python utils/call_llm.py
   

4. Generate a complete codebase tutorial by running the main script:

   # Analyze a GitHub repository
   python main.py --repo https://github.com/username/repo --include "*.py" "*.js" --exclude "tests/*" --max-size 50000
   
   # Or, analyze a local directory
   python main.py --dir /path/to/your/codebase --include "*.py" --exclude "*test*"
   
   # Or, generate a tutorial in Chinese
   python main.py --repo https://github.com/username/repo --language "Chinese"
   

   • --repo or --dir - Specify either a GitHub repo URL or a local directory path (required, mutually exclusive)
   • -n, --name - Project name (optional, derived from URL/directory if omitted)
   • -t, --token - GitHub token (or set GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable)
   • -o, --output - Output directory (default: ./output)
   • -i, --include - Files to include (e.g., "*.py" "*.js")
   • -e, --exclude - Files to exclude (e.g., "tests/*" "docs/*")
   • -s, --max-size - Maximum file size in bytes (default: 100KB)
   • --language - Language for the generated tutorial (default: "english")
   • --max-abstractions - Maximum number of abstractions to identify (default: 10)
   • --no-cache - Disable LLM response caching (default: caching enabled)

The application will crawl the repository, analyze the codebase structure, generate tutorial content in the specified language, and save the output in the specified directory (default: ./output).

To run this project in a Docker container, you'll need to pass your API keys as environment variables.

1. Build the Docker image

   docker build -t pocketflow-app .
   

2. Run the container

   You'll need to provide your GEMINI_API_KEY for the LLM to function. If you're analyzing private GitHub repositories or want to avoid rate limits, also provide your GITHUB_TOKEN.

   Mount a local directory to /app/output inside the container to access the generated tutorials on your host machine.

   Example for analyzing a public GitHub repository:

   docker run -it --rm \
     -e GEMINI_API_KEY="YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY_HERE" \
     -v "$(pwd)/output_tutorials":/app/output \
     pocketflow-app --repo https://github.com/username/repo
   

   Example for analyzing a local directory:

   docker run -it --rm \
     -e GEMINI_API_KEY="YOUR_GEMINI_API_KEY_HERE" \
     -v "/path/to/your/local_codebase":/app/code_to_analyze \
     -v "$(pwd)/output_tutorials":/app/output \
     pocketflow-app --dir /app/code_to_analyze
   

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