Reading a codependix graph

Codependix's exports are standing reference artifacts, not pass/fail reports. A repository that runs it has already answered "what depends on this" and committed the answer — usually as a Mermaid diagram in a readme, sometimes as JSON. Reading that is faster and more complete than re-deriving it by grepping for imports, and it is the right first move when scoping a refactor.

Look for a ## 🕸️ Codependix section, or for the marker pair <!-- codependix:start name="..." -->, in a project's readme. The workspace's own graph is exported once at the repository root.

Confirm it is current first

A committed graph is only as fresh as the last --write. Before trusting one to scope a change, run codependix map --check — it reports exactly which exports disagree with a freshly built graph and writes nothing. If the graph you are about to read is among them, --write first. The codependix-export skill covers both modes.