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Backbencher
Local code intelligence that shows its evidence
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A local-first code intelligence engine that indexes your codebase into SQLite and provides 16 MCP tools for code search, symbol extraction, and call-graph
What it is
Backbencher (bb) is a local-first code intelligence engine that indexes your codebase into a local SQLite database with 16 tables for symbols, source bounds, imports, and relationships. It exposes 16 agent tools over MCP plus a CLI for code search, symbol extraction, call-graph analysis, relationship mapping, diagnostics, and guarded edits. The tool supports 50 languages across 53 registry IDs, with alias routes for TSX, Sass, and Terraform. Every answer includes file location, line number, and the evidence behind the result, showing what relationships were walked and what could not be determined. The indexer respects .gitignore and .bbignore files, skips large files to protect memory and index quality, and supports incremental re-indexing with automatic freshness tracking.
What it is built with
- Supports 50 languages with 53 registry IDs
- 16 SQLite tables for symbols, source bounds, imports and relationships
- 16 MCP agent tools for code analysis
- AST-based code indexing
- Incremental re-indexing with automatic freshness tracking
- Call-graph analysis
- Respects .gitignore and .bbignore files
- Shows file, line and evidence for every answer
- Local storage with no cloud required
- Optional embedding provider integration for semantic search
Pricing
Pricing model: Free
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- What is Backbencher?
- Backbencher (bb) is a local-first code intelligence engine that indexes your codebase into a local SQLite database with 16 tables for symbols, source bounds, imports, and relationships. It exposes 16 agent tools over MCP plus a CLI for code search, symbol extraction, call-graph analysis, relationship mapping, diagnostics, and guarded edits. It supports 50 languages across 53 registry IDs.
- Does my code leave my machine?
- No. Indexing, storage, and analysis are all local. The only optional network calls are embedding provider calls you configure yourself if you set up an API key. There is no Backbencher cloud.
- Is Backbencher open source?
- Yes. Backbencher Brain is open source under the MIT license. The CLI, the MCP server, the language server and the website are published at backbencher-hq on GitHub.
- How much does it cost?
- Backbencher is free to use. The only optional cost is your own embedding provider's API usage if you choose a paid provider; free-tier providers work too.
- Does the indexer skip node_modules and build output?
- Yes, by default on three layers: built-in directory skips (.git, node_modules, dist, build, out, coverage, .next, target, vendor, pycache, .venv, venv), respecting your .gitignore, and an optional .bbignore file.
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