Codegen – OSS Python Library for Advanced Code Manipulation

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Hey HN! We've just open-sourced Codegen ( https://github.com/codegen-sh/codegen-sdk ), a Python library for manipulating Python + JS/React codebases. Codegen was engineered backwards from real-world, large-scale codebase analysis + refactors we performed on multi-million-line enterprise codebases. It provides a scriptable interface to a powerful, multi-lingual language server built on Tree-sitter. We realized that many code transformation tasks that impact large teams - refactors, enforcing patterns, analyzing control flow - are fundamentally programmatic operations. Yet existing tools like LibCST and Jscodeshift often require you to think in terms of ASTs and parser internals rather than the high-level changes you want to make. Therefore, we built Codegen to match how developers actually think about code changes: # Move a symbol to a new file # Handles imports, references, dependencies function.move_to_file("new_file.py") # Rename across the codebase class_def.rename("NewName") # Updates all usages, preserves formatting # Analyze call patterns for usage in function.usages: print(f"Used in {usage.file.name}") Codegen handles the edge cases automatically - updating imports, preserving dependencies, maintaining references, and resolving naming conflicts. You focus on intent, we handle the details. Under the hood, Codegen performs static analysis to build a rich graph representation of your code. This enables: - Versatile and comprehensive operations - Built-in visualization capabilities - Blazing fast execution of large-scale refactors We've seen a wide variety of advanced code manipulation programs emerge, including: - Mining codebases for LLM pre-training data - Analyzing security vulnerabilities - Large-scale API migrations - Enforcing code patterns We're excited to share this with the community and look forward to your feedback. Give it a spin and let us know what you think! uv tool install codegen codegen notebook --demo Docs: https://docs.codegen.com GitHub: https://github.com/codegen-sh/codegen-sdk Community: https://community.codegen.com Let us know if you have any questions or interesting use cases you'd like to explore.

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