Comparison to similar Tools

TangleGuard vs. Sonargraph TangleGuard vs. CodeChart TangleGuard vs vFunction etc.

Time Traveling

It would be nice to be able to select a Git commit and TangleGuard shows the dependency graph of that commit. It would be even nicer if TangleGuard could then compare those two versions of the architecture, or even multiple versions to detect trends 📈

Self Hosted Web App

As I developer of a private software project i want all developers of the team to browse the codebase visually, without everybody having to install the desktop app. I don’t want to host it on the internet though, but rather install my own TangleGuard Cloud instance in my company on my own servers and with my own database.

Second-Level Layer Validation

Currently, one can declare dependency rules for top-level components in their programming language. Meaning, one can declare rules between packages for Rust or JavaScript, or between Module for Go projects. More about it here or here. TangleGuard checks the source code against any rule violations, locally or within CI/CD pipelines, so make sure the attended structure stays in place. Now this could be enhanced to also support smaller sized projects, which don’t rely on a workspace. So like a single-package/crate binary in Rust or a single JS package.

Interfaces for AI-Agents

So far the focus has been on human interaction via the GUI. But LLMs need a different way to communicate with TangleGuard. The CLI tool need to be enhanced and an MCP Server would be nice to have.

File Relations between Go Files

Go does not include specific items in the `import` statement. Therefore the edges in the diagram go into the packages (the parent node), not in the Go files nodes. It would be nice though to have those edges go into the go file nodes instead of to the parent node for more accurate visualization and hence easier detection of architectual flaws

Sign Windows Desktop App

Currently only the macOS releases are being signed and Windows not. The user get’s a warning about that which is not very nice. Signing would remove that warning and can be done using services like ssl.com

Private Projects in Web App

Currently only open source projects are supported by the Cloud version, because they are available to be analyzed by the general public. But to host the analyzation data of private repositories should also be possible, too. For this proper multi tendency support needs to be implemented, which means: encryption of the stored data at rest handling of tokens and likely encryption keys row level security

Show Effects in PR

See how a pull request will effect your structure. This would include nodes (packages / modules / namesspaces/ etc.) dependencies In a PR, a comment could add a graph diagram which shows the effected nodes and edges

Java Support