google/kythe

Kythe is a pluggable, (mostly) language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code.

2,152

stars

5,090

commits

primary language

Sep 11, 2026

updated

kythe.io

README

Features

Extensive documentation of the Kythe schema
Indexer implementations for C++, Go, and Java
Compilation extractors for javac, Maven, cmake, Go, and Bazel
Generic verifier for indexers
Sample cross-reference service
Many useful utility commands to work with Kythe artifacts

Getting Started

Download the latest Kythe release from https://github.com/kythe/kythe/releases and then unpack it for a snapshot of Kythe’s toolset.

tar xzf kythe-v*.tar.gz
rm -rf /opt/kythe
mv kythe-v*/ /opt/kythe

See /opt/kythe/README for a complete description of the packaged tools and their usages.

Contributing and Building Kythe

https://kythe.io/contributing

Issue Tracker

https://github.com/kythe/kythe/issues

Documentation

https://kythe.io/docs/

Examples

https://kythe.io/examples

Contact

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kythe - General Kythe Community
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kythe-dev - Kythe Development

Contributors

(top 30 of 111)

1,843 commits

827 commits

673 commits

302 commits

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google/kythe

Kythe is a pluggable, (mostly) language-agnostic ecosystem for building tools that work with code.

2,152

stars

5,090

commits

primary language

Sep 11, 2026

updated

kythe.io

README

Features

Extensive documentation of the Kythe schema
Indexer implementations for C++, Go, and Java
Compilation extractors for javac, Maven, cmake, Go, and Bazel
Generic verifier for indexers
Sample cross-reference service
Many useful utility commands to work with Kythe artifacts

Getting Started

Download the latest Kythe release from https://github.com/kythe/kythe/releases and then unpack it for a snapshot of Kythe’s toolset.

tar xzf kythe-v*.tar.gz
rm -rf /opt/kythe
mv kythe-v*/ /opt/kythe

See /opt/kythe/README for a complete description of the packaged tools and their usages.

Contributing and Building Kythe

https://kythe.io/contributing

Issue Tracker

https://github.com/kythe/kythe/issues

Documentation

https://kythe.io/docs/

Examples

https://kythe.io/examples

Contact

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kythe - General Kythe Community
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/kythe-dev - Kythe Development

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C++

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Java

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