Flare

A graph-first IDE for agentic coding — desktop app, or served to a browser from the machine the agent runs on.

The main surface is a live graph of your codebase — every file is a node, imports are edges — with a full terminal underneath where you run claude, codex or opencode. As the agent edits files, the graph updates in real time; every change burst is snapshotted into a local shadow history you can diff against and revert to, per file or as a whole tree.

You run the agent in Flare's terminal, and Flare watches: it maps the repo from the source, attributes every write to whoever made it, and pulls you in when something important changes. The agent takes work from the board and asks its questions there, so the two of you are looking at the same project rather than at a chat log.

What you get

Flare open on its own source. The Activity lens highlights the seven files an agent just edited, and hovering shared/types.ts highlights every file that imports it — the blast radius of one file, without reconstructing it from a grep.

Three views of the same graph

Switchable from the toolbar or the command palette. Each honours the active lens, the selection, collapsed directories and the search filter.

• Canvas (default) — dependency cards on a pannable board, ordered left-to-right by dependency depth (SCC-condensed, crossing-reduced, wrapped into bands so a long chain never becomes an unreadable strip): foundations left, entry points right. Cards carry the filename, a lens-coloured rail and badges (complexity, coverage %, untested, TODOs, cycles). Hovering traces imports in blue and importers in amber; shift+click traces the path between two files; cards can be dragged and their positions persist. Zooming out swaps the cards to a plate skin (semantic zoom) so the shape of the repo still reads.
• Wheel — every node sits on one ring ordered by directory, dependencies cross the middle as bundled chords, and cluster bands are labelled around the outside. Drag to spin, alt+wheel to rotate, scroll to zoom, shift+drag to pan, ctrl+drag to box-select. Click a node to pin its dependency directions; hover a cluster band to isolate that directory; click a band to collapse or expand it.
• Districts — a squarified treemap where area is lines of code and shade is the active lens. The fastest read on "how big is this repo and where does the mass sit"; selecting a file outlines everything it touches.

The Wheel answers the one question the canvas cannot: what talks to what across the whole repo at once. A file whose chords fan across the entire disc is load-bearing whether or not anyone documented it that way. Node dots take the active lens, cluster bands are coloured by directory.

Features

• Folders that open one level at a time — a folder card holding more files than fits on a screen unfolds into its sub-folders, not into four hundred cards. A src/ that is 90% of the repo therefore has a middle state: it opens into src/app, src/features, src/libs… with the dependencies between them drawn, and each of those opens again. Folding it back remembers how far you had drilled.
• Lenses — recolour the same layout by Clusters, Activity, Hotspots (churn × complexity), R

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