Grasp Β· the Comprehension Index

Who still understands your code?

AI writes more of your code every quarter. Authors leave. Reviews get thinner. Grasp measures the number no dashboard tracks: how much of your codebase any currently-active human still genuinely understands β€” computed from git metadata alone, without reading a line of your source.

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Sixty seconds from repo URL to a dark-code ranking. No signup, no code access.

Prefer to look before you scan? See a full sample report β€” our 22-repo benchmark. Curious how the number is made? The methodology is published in full.

What we found in 22 major repos

openai/openai-python
3%
living commit-authorship β€” a codegen-built repo (see report's scope note)
expressjs/express
15%
85% of the web's workhorse was written by departed authors
langchain-ai/langchain
1%
contributor survival: 41 active of 3,683 all-time
curl/curl
94%
25 years old and the healthiest repo we scanned

Full findings in The State of Comprehension Debt 2026.

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Why teams trust the number

Metadata only. Grasp reads commit history and PR events β€” never file contents. Hard evidence only. AI attribution counts co-author trailers and bot accounts; we report it as a floor, not a guess. Honest limits. The Grasp Score is a potential indicator β€” it tells you where to look, and we say so on every report.