Self-dogfood Demo

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<!-- translations:end --> This project can index itself. The self-dogfood flow proves that Tesserae can be installed, set up inside its own repository, ingest its own docs/source/tests/scripts, optionally refresh Understand Anything and Cognee, compile graph artifacts, and build the static web frontend.

The same flow doubles as a multimodal smoke test. With --with-raganything --install-raganything --run-raganything, the dogfood compile points RAG-Anything at Tesserae's own docs/ markdown plus the docs/assets/ and project-level assets/ images. That validates the multimodal pipeline against a real, project-owned non-code corpus — covering screenshots and diagrams the text-first source loaders skip — without inventing a separate fixture set.

Commands

From the repository root:

# Ensure the shell command is installed.
./scripts/install.sh --dir "$PWD"
export PATH="$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"

# Set up this repository as an Tesserae project.
tesserae project setup \
  --yes \
  --name tesserae_self \
  --source README.md \
  --source docs \
  --source tesserae \
  --source tests \
  --source scripts \
  --with-understand-anything \
  --install-understand-anything \
  --understand-anything-platform codex \
  --with-raganything \
  --install-raganything \
  --raganything-parser mineru \
  --run-raganything \
  --run-cognee \
  --install-cognee

# Compile the configured sources.
tesserae project compile

# Rebuild the static frontend explicitly.
tesserae project build-site

# Serve locally.
tesserae project serve --port 8765

Open:

http://127.0.0.1:8765/

Generated workspace

The self-demo writes generated artifacts under:

.tesserae/

Key artifacts:

.tesserae/config.json
.tesserae/graph.json
.tesserae/manifest.json
.tesserae/sqlite.db
.tesserae/report.md
.tesserae/competitive_report.md
.tesserae/temporal_facts.jsonl
.tesserae/graphiti_episodes.jsonl
.tesserae/markdown_projection/
.tesserae/obsidian_vault/
.tesserae/agent_harness/
.tesserae/site/
.tesserae/cognee_bundle/

The generated workspace is intentionally not committed by default. It is reproducible from the repository source with the commands above.

Latest verified run

Verified on 2026-04-27 11:11:23 KST from the Tesserae repository itself.

install command: ./scripts/install.sh --dir /Users/neo/Developer/Projects/Tesserae --skip-shell-config
setup command:   tesserae project setup --yes --name tesserae_self --source README.md --source docs --source tesserae --source tests --source scripts --with-understand-anything --install-understand-anything --understand-anything-platform codex --run-cognee --install-cognee
ingest command:  tesserae project ingest README.md docs --changed-only
compile command: tesserae project compile
site command:    tesserae project build-site
serve command:   tesserae project serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 56821
local URL:       http://127.0.0.1:56821/
LAN URL:         http://192.168.45.130:56821/

Final artifact counts:

nodes:               667
edges:               1020
markdown notes:      684
obsidian notes:      686
agent harness files: 14
cognee nodes:        667
cognee edges:        1020
graphiti episodes:  1020
temporal facts:      1020
site files:          index.html, nodes/index.html, sources/index.html, graph/index.html, graph.json, search-index.json, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, manifest.json, assets/style.css, assets/app.js
node pages:          687
source pages:        56

Top node types:

CodeFunction:    452
Dependency:       55
CodeClass:        54
Concept:          51
SourceFile:       47
SourceDocument:    7
CodeProject:       1

Browser verification:

loaded title: Home · tesserae_self
visible stats: 667 nodes / 1020 edges / 55 sources / 7 types
sources page: source evidence table links to per-source pages
source detail: tesserae/frontend.py shows 41 nodes, 54 related edges, type mix, node links, and edge table
search smoke: StaticSiteBuilder returned CodeClass and StaticSiteBuilder.write_site results
console: no JavaScript errors on home, sources, source detail, or graph pages
server: TCP *:56821 LISTEN, serving via --host 0.0.0.0

What this demonstrates

• Public install path works.
• tesserae shell command works.
• A repository can attach a project-local .tesserae workspace.
• Research/documentation markdown and development-code graph nodes can coexist.
• Markdown, Obsidian, frontend, Graphiti, Cognee, SQLite, report, and agent-harness projections are produced from one graph pipeline.
• The static HTML frontend can browse the project graph without a JavaScript build step.