ChunkHound: The Local-First Codebase Understanding Tool That Finally Gets Your Architecture

ChunkHound: When Your AI Assistant Actually Understands Your Codebase—Not Just Searches It We’ve all lived through this story: You join a new team, get handed a codebase with half a million lines of code across two thousand files, and spend your first week pestering senior engineers with questions like, “Where exactly is the user authentication logic?” Or you’re debugging a complex feature, trying to trace how data flows from the frontend through three microservices to the database, only to end up lost in a maze of Ctrl+F searches and outdated architecture diagrams. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Modern AI coding assistants—GitHub …