Developing code intelligence

This guide documents our approach to developing code intelligence-related features in our codebase. This includes the code intelligence logic included in the Sourcegraph instance as well as the extensions that provide code intelligence to the web UI, browser extension, and code host integrations.

Services:

• precise-code-intel-worker

Code intelligence-specific code:

• lib/codeintel
• dev/codeintel-qa
• enterprise/internal/codeintel
• enterprise/cmd/worker/internal/codeintel
• enterprise/cmd/frontend/internal/codeintel
• enterprise/cmd/frontend/internal/executorqueue/queues/codeintel

Docs:

• Deployment documentation
• How LSIF indexes are processed
• How precise code intelligence queries are resolved
• How code intelligence extensions resolve hovers
• How Sourcegraph auto-indexes source code
• API docs developer guide