Understand-Anyway

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Build, publish, serve, and keep many Understand-Anything projects in sync from one place.

Understand-Anything is great at understanding a project. The missing piece for real deployment is everything around it: repeated builds, versioned releases, a shared read-only gateway, scheduled refresh jobs, and environment-specific integrations. Understand-Anyway is that operational layer.

It does not replace the upstream analyzer. It wraps it in a multi-project CLI, gateway, and release flow that teams can actually run.

✨ Core capabilities

• Multi-project orchestration — build and refresh many repositories under one operational model.
• Read-only gateway and portal — expose project graphs and dashboards behind a shared public entry.
• Versioned runtime publishing — publish immutable project and gateway releases, then switch current / stable atomically.
• Scheduled sync — run daily/nightly update flows instead of babysitting manual rebuilds.
• Pluggable providers — swap auth, org policy, record, LLM, embedding, and notify integrations without recompiling the core.
• Incremental and backfill workflows — support regular refreshes plus rebuild / recovery paths when state drifts.

✅ Good fit

• You want to host a shared knowledge portal for more than one repository.
• You need repeatable build / publish / rollback workflows instead of ad-hoc scripts.
• You want a stable OSS core with deployment-specific integrations provided as plugins.

❌ Not the right fit

• You only want single-repo interactive analysis inside an IDE.
• You want a new graph-analysis engine instead of an orchestration layer.
• You need the upstream plugin bundled into this repository.

Quick start

Requirements:

• Node.js >= 20
• The upstream Understand-Anything plugin installed somewhere on disk
• pnpm >= 9 only if you run from a source checkout

Install the CLI from npm:

mkdir understand-anyway-ops
cd understand-anyway-ops
npm init -y
npm install @understand-anyway/cli

export UA_PLUGIN_ROOT="$HOME/.understand-anything/repo/understand-anything-plugin"
npx understand-anyway --help

Or run from a source checkout when developing or validating a release:

git clone https://github.com/permanentstar/Understand-Anyway.git
cd Understand-Anyway
pnpm install
pnpm -r build

export UA_PLUGIN_ROOT="$HOME/.understand-anything/repo/understand-anything-plugin"
node packages/cli/dist/cli.js --help

For a full deployment walk-through, start with docs/deployment.md. For an end-to-end local rehearsal, see docs/local-release-verification.md or run pnpm run delivery:local.

Documentation map

• Deployment architecture — runtime model, config layering, command families, and gateway versioning.
• Deployment CLI manual — deploy.yaml template and common operator scenarios, including npm-installed CLI usage.
• Release test matrix — local / external release-gate coverage and entry points.
• Local release verification — local registry rehearsal and clean-install verification.
• Plugin API — provider SPI and runtime factory contracts.
• Agent guide — repo navigation, constraints, and verification for coding agents.

Repository layout

docs/                        # public docs, deployment notes, release tests
packages/cli/                # CLI entrypoints and orchestration wiring
packages/core/               # build pipeline and graph processing
packages/gateway/            # shared gateway, portal, runtime publishing
packages/plugin-api/         # provider SPI contracts
packages/provider-*/         # OSS providers and runtime adapters
scripts/                     # ops, release, regression, and script tests

License

MIT. See LICENSE and NOTICE.