{"slug": "show-hn-githits-public-beta-0-9", "title": "Show HN: GitHits Public Beta 0.9", "summary": "GitHits launched its public beta 0.9, a CLI and local MCP server that gives coding agents access to open-source code behind project dependencies. The tool indexes open-source code and documentation, allowing agents to search source code, inspect dependency graphs, and review changelogs without cloning repos. In benchmarks, GitHits reduced token usage by 45% and cut solution attempts from 8 to 3 for a real integration task.", "body_md": "Hi HN,\n\nI’m Olli-Pekka, co-founder of GitHits (and the creator of opencv-python package).\n\nGitHits is a CLI and local MCP server that gives coding agents access to the open-source code their projects actually depend on.\n\nCoding agents already have access to your local codebase. The missing context is the open-source code behind your dependencies.\n\nWhen an agent hits a framework edge case, an undocumented integration, or version-specific behavior, the answer often lives in dependency source code, tests, changelogs, issues, or discussions rather than in the application code itself. Without access to that information, agents spend more time exploring dead ends, retrying approaches, and consuming tokens before converging on a solution.\n\nDuring the private beta, GitHits focused on generating examples. You could describe a problem in natural language, and it would search open-source repositories, issues, discussions, and package metadata for similar implementations, then generate an example grounded in real code.\n\nThe public beta expands GitHits beyond example generation. Agents can now move beyond finding examples and inspect the dependencies they use directly: searching source code, accessing documentation, inspecting dependency graphs, vulnerabilities and changelogs, reviewing package upgrades, and retrieving information for the specific package versions used by a project.\n\nNo repo cloning is needed. We have built a version-aware index of open-source code and documentation. Popular projects are pre-indexed across ecosystems. If a package or repository is missing, we index it on demand, typically in 10-20 seconds for an average-sized project.\n\nThe CLI and local MCP server currently expose the following tools:\n\n- get_example for implementation examples from open source\n\n- search, code_grep, code_files, code_read for code navigation\n\n- docs_list, docs_read for documentation access\n\n- pkg_info, pkg_deps, pkg_vulns, pkg_changelog, pkg_upgrade_review for package inspection\n\nPackage navigation currently supports npm, PyPI, crates.io, Maven, NuGet, Go modules, RubyGems, Packagist, Hex, Zig, vcpkg and Swift.\n\nCode navigation currently supports C++, C#, Dart, Elixir, Erlang, Go, Java, JavaScript, Kotlin, Lua, PHP, Python, R, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Swift, TypeScript and Zig. We also have more limited support for Bash, CSS, HTML, Markdown, Proto, SCSS, Svelte, Vue. We are constantly adding support for more ecosystems, and advanced navigation tools over our indexed code graph are also on the roadmap.\n\nWe benchmarked Codex on a real integration task with and without GitHits. With GitHits, it used 45% fewer tokens and passed the tests on the 3rd attempt instead of the 8th: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YmwLhH2Ohs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YmwLhH2Ohs)\n\nInstall is:\n\n```\n  npx githits@latest init\n```\n\nIt works with coding agents either through the CLI directly or through the local MCP server that the CLI configures automatically.Launching as well on Product Hunt today: [https://www.producthunt.com/products/githits](https://www.producthunt.com/products/githits)\n\nWould love feedback, especially from people using coding agents heavily in real projects.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551593](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48551593)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-githits-public-beta-0-9", "canonical_source": "https://githits.com/", "published_at": "2026-06-16 07:00:33+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-16 07:18:49.613288+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "developer-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["GitHits", "opencv-python", "npm", "PyPI", "crates.io", "Maven", "NuGet", "Codex"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-githits-public-beta-0-9", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-githits-public-beta-0-9.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-githits-public-beta-0-9.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-githits-public-beta-0-9.jsonld"}}