Ignore Patterns

You can specify additional files and directories to exclude from analysis by creating a .cgrignore file in your repository root. Patterns follow .gitignore conventions.

Format

# Comments start with #
vendor
*.gen.ts
docs/*.md
/generated
fixtures/**
!bin/keep.py

Rules

• Patterns follow gitignore syntax: * matches within a path segment, ** crosses segments, ? matches a single character
• A bare name (vendor) matches a file or directory with that name at any depth
• A pattern containing a slash (docs/*.md, /generated) is anchored to the repository root
• A trailing slash (build/) matches directories only
• Lines starting with ! un-ignore matching paths that a default exclusion would skip (explicit excludes always win)
• Lines starting with # are comments; blank lines are ignored
• Patterns from .cgrignore are merged with --exclude flags (which use the same syntax) and auto-detected directories

Default Exclusions

Code-Graph-RAG automatically excludes common non-source directories such as .git, node_modules, __pycache__, dist, build, and similar.