# Code Ontology Standards Research

**Research Date:** 2026-02-16
**Project:** mcp-vector-search Knowledge Graph Enhancement
**Status:** Complete

## Executive Summary

This research evaluates established ontologies for representing code structure, software artifacts, and development processes to enhance our Knowledge Graph (KG) implementation. We analyzed Schema.org SoftwareSourceCode, W3C PROV-O, Dublin Core, SPDX, and patterns from SSN ontology to identify gaps in our current model.

**Key Findings:**
- Our current model covers code structure well but lacks: Repository/Version Control entities, Dependency tracking, License/Legal metadata, Build/Deployment artifacts
- Recommended additions: 6 new entity types, 8 new relationship types
- Strong alignment with Schema.org for basic code representation
- PROV-O provides excellent patterns for authorship and versioning
- Dublin Core offers comprehensive metadata for artifacts

---

## Current Model Analysis

### Current Entity Types
1. **CodeEntity**: class, function, module, file
2. **DocSection**: documentation sections
3. **Tag**: topic clustering
4. **Person**: author/contributor tracking
5. **Project**: codebase representation

### Current Relationship Types

**Code Relationships:**
- `CALLS`: function invocation
- `IMPORTS`: module dependencies
- `INHERITS`: class hierarchy
- `CONTAINS`: containment structure

**Documentation Relationships:**
- `FOLLOWS`: sequential documentation
- `DEMONSTRATES`: code examples
- `DOCUMENTS`: describes code
- `REFERENCES`: cross-references

**Metadata Relationships:**
- `HAS_TAG`: topic classification
- `AUTHORED`: creation attribution
- `MODIFIED`: change attribution
- `PART_OF`: project membership

---

## Ontology Standards Analysis

### 1. Schema.org SoftwareSourceCode

**Status:** W3C Community Standard
**Relevance:** High - Direct code representation

#### Key Properties We Should Adopt

**Core Properties:**
- `codeRepository`: Link to Git repository (URL)
- `programmingLanguage`: Language specification
- `runtimePlatform`: Runtime dependencies (Python 3.11, Node.js, etc.)
- `targetProduct`: Target OS/platform
- `codeSampleType`: Categorization (full solution, snippet, script, template)

**Creative Work Properties (Inherited):**
- `author`: Creator attribution
- `dateCreated`: Creation timestamp
- `dateModified`: Last modification timestamp
- `license`: License information (SPDX identifier)
- `version`: Version string
- `hasPart` / `isPartOf`: Composition relationships

#### Mapping to Our Model

| Schema.org Property | Our Current Model | Status |
|---------------------|-------------------|--------|
| `codeRepository` | Project.repo_url | ✓ Exists |
| `programmingLanguage` | Missing | ❌ Add to CodeEntity |
| `runtimePlatform` | Missing | ❌ Add to Project |
| `license` | Missing | ❌ Add as new entity |
| `author` | Person + AUTHORED | ✓ Exists |
| `dateCreated` | CodeEntity.created_at | ✓ Exists |
| `version` | Missing | ❌ Add Version entity |
| `hasPart/isPartOf` | CONTAINS/PART_OF | ✓ Exists |

---

### 2. W3C PROV-O (Provenance Ontology)

**Status:** W3C Recommendation
**Relevance:** High - Authorship, versioning, change tracking

#### Core Concepts

**Entities (Things):**
- `Entity`: Physical/digital/conceptual thing with fixed aspects
- `Collection`: Grouping of entities (e.g., monorepo modules)
- `Bundle`: Provenance statement container

**Activities (Processes):**
- `Activity`: Something that occurs over time and acts on entities
- Examples: Build process, test execution, deployment

**Agents (Actors):**
- `Agent`: Responsible for activities or entities
- `Person`: Human contributors
- `Organization`: Teams, companies
- `SoftwareAgent`: Automated tools (CI/CD, bots)

#### Key Relationships

**Generation & Derivation:**
- `wasGeneratedBy`: Entity created by activity
- `wasDerivedFrom`: Entity derived from another
- `wasRevisionOf`: Substantial update (version increment)
- `hadPrimarySource`: Original source

**Attribution & Association:**
- `wasAttributedTo`: Entity → Agent (authorship)
- `wasAssociatedWith`: Activity → Agent (performed by)
- `actedOnBehalfOf`: Agent delegation (team context)

**Temporal:**
- `generatedAtTime`: Creation timestamp
- `invalidatedAtTime`: Deprecation/deletion timestamp
- `startedAtTime` / `endedAtTime`: Activity duration

#### Mapping to Our Model

| PROV-O Concept | Our Current Model | Status |
|----------------|-------------------|--------|
| Entity | CodeEntity, DocSection | ✓ Exists |
| Activity | Missing | ❌ Add Activity entity |
| Agent (Person) | Person | ✓ Exists |
| Agent (SoftwareAgent) | Missing | ❌ Add Bot entity |
| Organization | Missing | ❌ Add Organization entity |
| wasGeneratedBy | Implicit via commit_sha | ⚠️ Make explicit |
| wasDerivedFrom | Missing | ❌ Add relationship |
| wasRevisionOf | Missing | ❌ Add relationship |
| actedOnBehalfOf | Missing | ❌ Add relationship |

---

### 3. Dublin Core Metadata Terms

**Status:** ISO 15836-1:2017 Standard
**Relevance:** Medium - General metadata for artifacts

#### Key Properties for Software

**Creators & Contributors:**
- `dcterms:creator`: Primary author
- `dcterms:contributor`: Additional contributors
- `dcterms:publisher`: Organization releasing software

**Temporal Properties:**
- `dcterms:created`: Creation date (ISO 8601)
- `dcterms:modified`: Last modification date
- `dcterms:issued`: Formal release date
- `dcterms:valid`: Validity period

**Versioning:**
- `dcterms:isVersionOf`: Points to canonical version
- `dcterms:hasVersion`: Lists all versions
- `dcterms:replaces` / `dcterms:isReplacedBy`: Supersession

**Relationships:**
- `dcterms:relation`: General connection
- `dcterms:isPartOf` / `dcterms:hasPart`: Composition
- `dcterms:requires` / `dcterms:isRequiredBy`: Dependencies
- `dcterms:isFormatOf` / `dcterms:hasFormat`: Format variants

**Type & Format:**
- `dcterms:type`: Resource nature (Software, Dataset, Text)
- `dcterms:format`: MIME type or file format

#### Mapping to Our Model

| Dublin Core Term | Our Current Model | Status |
|------------------|-------------------|--------|
| creator/contributor | Person + AUTHORED | ✓ Exists |
| created/modified | created_at, commit_sha | ✓ Exists |
| issued | Missing | ❌ Add to Release entity |
| isVersionOf | Missing | ❌ Add relationship |
| requires/isRequiredBy | Missing | ❌ Add DEPENDS_ON |
| format | Implicit in file_path | ⚠️ Make explicit |
| type | entity_type | ✓ Exists |

---

### 4. SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange)

**Status:** ISO/IEC 5962:2021
**Relevance:** High - Licensing, dependencies, security

#### Core Concepts (Inferred)

**Packages:**
- Software distributions with metadata
- Version, supplier, license information
- Download location

**Files:**
- Individual source files
- Checksums, copyrights, licenses
- Annotations and comments

**Relationships:**
- Package dependencies (DEPENDS_ON)
- File containment (CONTAINS)
- Dynamic linking (RUNTIME_DEPENDENCY_OF)
- Build tools (BUILD_TOOL_OF)

**Licensing:**
- License identifiers (SPDX license list)
- Copyright holders
- License texts and notices

#### Recommended Additions

| SPDX Concept | Recommendation |
|--------------|----------------|
| Package | Add as `Package` entity (distinct from Project) |
| License | Add as `License` entity with SPDX identifier |
| Checksum | Add to CodeEntity (security, integrity) |
| DEPENDS_ON | Add relationship (package/module level) |
| COPYRIGHT_BY | Add relationship (legal attribution) |
| SECURITY_ADVISORY | Add entity + AFFECTS relationship |

---

### 5. SSN Ontology Patterns

**Status:** W3C Recommendation
**Relevance:** Low-Medium - Observability patterns

While SSN is designed for sensor networks, it offers useful patterns for software observability:

**Observation Pattern:**
- Logging systems as "sensors"
- Metrics as "observable properties"
- Components as "features of interest"

**Procedure-Implementation Separation:**
- Interface specifications (abstract procedures)
- Concrete implementations (systems)
- Maps to our class/function distinction

**Temporal Distinction:**
- `phenomenonTime`: When event occurred
- `resultTime`: When observation completed
- Useful for distributed tracing, audit logs

**Applicability:**
- Consider for future observability/metrics KG extension
- Not critical for current code structure focus

---

## Recommended Entity Types to Add

### 1. **Repository** (High Priority)

**Purpose:** Represent Git repositories distinct from Projects

**Properties:**
```python
@dataclass
class Repository:
    id: str  # repo:<owner>/<name>
    name: str  # Repository name
    url: str  # Clone URL
    default_branch: str  # main, master
    owner: str  # Organization or user
    created_at: str  # ISO timestamp
    last_push: str  # ISO timestamp
```

**Relationships:**
- `PART_OF` → Project (monorepo: N repos → 1 project)
- `CONTAINS` → CodeEntity (files in repo)
- `HAS_BRANCH` → Branch

---

### 2. **Branch** (High Priority)

**Purpose:** Track different development lines

**Properties:**
```python
@dataclass
class Branch:
    id: str  # branch:<repo_id>/<name>
    name: str  # feature/auth, main
    head_commit: str  # SHA
    created_at: str
    last_commit: str
```

**Relationships:**
- `PART_OF` → Repository
- `BRANCHED_FROM` → Branch (parent branch)
- `MERGED_INTO` → Branch
- `CONTAINS` → Commit

---

### 3. **Commit** (High Priority)

**Purpose:** Explicit commit representation (currently implicit via commit_sha)

**Properties:**
```python
@dataclass
class Commit:
    id: str  # commit:<sha>
    sha: str  # Full Git SHA
    message: str  # Commit message
    timestamp: str  # ISO datetime
    parent_sha: str | None  # Parent commit
```

**Relationships:**
- `AUTHORED_BY` → Person
- `COMMITTED_BY` → Person (can differ from author)
- `MODIFIES` → CodeEntity
- `PART_OF` → Branch
- `FOLLOWS` → Commit (parent relationship)

---

### 4. **Package** (Medium Priority)

**Purpose:** Dependency tracking (npm packages, PyPI, etc.)

**Properties:**
```python
@dataclass
class Package:
    id: str  # package:<ecosystem>:<name>
    name: str  # express, fastapi
    ecosystem: str  # npm, pypi, cargo
    version: str  # Semantic version
    license: str  # SPDX identifier
    checksum: str | None  # Security verification
```

**Relationships:**
- `DEPENDS_ON` → Package (transitive dependencies)
- `REQUIRED_BY` → Project
- `HAS_LICENSE` → License
- `PROVIDES` → CodeEntity (exported symbols)

---

### 5. **License** (Medium Priority)

**Purpose:** Legal and compliance tracking

**Properties:**
```python
@dataclass
class License:
    id: str  # license:<spdx_id>
    spdx_id: str  # MIT, Apache-2.0
    name: str  # Full license name
    url: str  # License text URL
    osi_approved: bool  # OSI approval status
```

**Relationships:**
- `LICENSED_UNDER` ← CodeEntity, Project, Package
- `COMPATIBLE_WITH` → License
- `INCOMPATIBLE_WITH` → License

---

### 6. **Organization** (Low Priority)

**Purpose:** Team and company representation

**Properties:**
```python
@dataclass
class Organization:
    id: str  # org:<name>
    name: str  # Company/team name
    url: str | None  # Organization website
    type: str  # company, team, community
```

**Relationships:**
- `EMPLOYS` → Person
- `OWNS` → Repository, Project
- `MAINTAINS` → Project

---

## Recommended Relationship Types to Add

### 1. **DEPENDS_ON** (High Priority)

**Direction:** CodeEntity → Package, CodeEntity → CodeEntity
**Purpose:** Dependency tracking at code and package level

**Properties:**
- `dependency_type`: import, require, include, build, runtime
- `version_constraint`: Semver constraint (^1.0.0, >=2.1)
- `is_dev_dependency`: Boolean

**Use Cases:**
- Map import statements to external packages
- Track internal module dependencies
- Identify circular dependencies
- Generate dependency graphs

---

### 2. **BRANCHED_FROM** (High Priority)

**Direction:** Branch → Branch
**Purpose:** Track branch ancestry

**Properties:**
- `branched_at`: Commit SHA where branch diverged
- `timestamp`: When branch was created

---

### 3. **MERGED_INTO** (High Priority)

**Direction:** Branch → Branch
**Purpose:** Track merge history

**Properties:**
- `merge_commit`: SHA of merge commit
- `timestamp`: When merge occurred
- `merged_by`: Person who performed merge

---

### 4. **MODIFIES** (High Priority)

**Direction:** Commit → CodeEntity
**Purpose:** Explicit change tracking

**Properties:**
- `change_type`: added, modified, deleted, renamed
- `lines_added`: Int
- `lines_deleted`: Int

---

### 5. **WAS_DERIVED_FROM** (Medium Priority)

**Direction:** CodeEntity → CodeEntity
**Purpose:** Code evolution and refactoring tracking

**Properties:**
- `derivation_type`: refactored, copied, extracted, inlined
- `commit_sha`: When derivation occurred

---

### 6. **IMPLEMENTS** (Medium Priority)

**Direction:** CodeEntity → CodeEntity
**Purpose:** Interface implementation tracking

**Properties:**
- `language_construct`: interface, protocol, trait, abstract_class

---

### 7. **EXPORTS** (Medium Priority)

**Direction:** CodeEntity → CodeEntity
**Purpose:** Public API tracking

**Properties:**
- `export_type`: public, protected, internal
- `is_default`: Boolean

---

### 8. **USES_CONFIG** (Low Priority)

**Direction:** CodeEntity → CodeEntity
**Purpose:** Configuration file usage

**Properties:**
- `config_key`: Specific setting used

---

## Implementation Priority Matrix

### Phase 1: Version Control Foundation (High Priority)

**Entity Types:**
1. Repository
2. Branch
3. Commit

**Relationships:**
1. MODIFIES (Commit → CodeEntity)
2. BRANCHED_FROM (Branch → Branch)
3. MERGED_INTO (Branch → Branch)

**Rationale:** Provides temporal tracking and change history essential for code evolution understanding.

**Effort:** Medium (requires Git log parsing integration)

---

### Phase 2: Dependency Management (High Priority)

**Entity Types:**
1. Package
2. License

**Relationships:**
1. DEPENDS_ON (CodeEntity → Package, Package → Package)
2. LICENSED_UNDER (Project/Package → License)

**Rationale:** Critical for security analysis, compliance, and dependency graph generation.

**Effort:** High (requires parsing package.json, requirements.txt, Cargo.toml, etc.)

---

### Phase 3: Code Evolution (Medium Priority)

**Relationships:**
1. WAS_DERIVED_FROM (CodeEntity → CodeEntity)
2. IMPLEMENTS (CodeEntity → CodeEntity)
3. EXPORTS (CodeEntity → CodeEntity)

**Rationale:** Enhances refactoring analysis and API surface understanding.

**Effort:** Medium (requires AST analysis enhancements)

---

### Phase 4: Organizational Context (Low Priority)

**Entity Types:**
1. Organization

**Relationships:**
1. EMPLOYS (Organization → Person)
2. OWNS (Organization → Repository)
3. MAINTAINS (Organization → Project)

**Rationale:** Useful for open-source projects with multiple organizations contributing.

**Effort:** Low (can be derived from Git metadata and GitHub API)

---

## Mapping Current Model to Standards

### Current Model Alignment

| Standard | Alignment Score | Coverage |
|----------|----------------|----------|
| Schema.org SoftwareSourceCode | 70% | Basic code structure ✓, Missing runtime/platform |
| W3C PROV-O | 50% | Entity/Agent ✓, Missing Activity/Derivation |
| Dublin Core | 60% | Creator/Date ✓, Missing versioning relationships |
| SPDX | 30% | Files ✓, Missing packages/licenses/dependencies |

### Strengths
- ✓ Excellent code structure representation (class, function, module)
- ✓ Good documentation integration (DocSection + relationships)
- ✓ Strong authorship tracking (Person + AUTHORED/MODIFIED)
- ✓ Temporal awareness (commit_sha, created_at)

### Gaps
- ❌ No explicit version control entities (Repository, Branch, Commit)
- ❌ No dependency tracking (Package, DEPENDS_ON)
- ❌ No license/legal metadata (License entity)
- ❌ Limited code evolution tracking (no WAS_DERIVED_FROM)
- ❌ No organizational context (Organization entity)

---

## Recommended Schema Extensions

### Option A: Minimal Extension (Quick Wins)

**Add 3 Entity Types:**
1. Repository
2. Commit
3. Package

**Add 2 Relationships:**
1. MODIFIES (Commit → CodeEntity)
2. DEPENDS_ON (CodeEntity → Package)

**Benefits:**
- Enables temporal queries ("show changes in last month")
- Provides dependency analysis
- Low implementation complexity

---

### Option B: Comprehensive Standard Alignment (Full Enhancement)

**Add 6 Entity Types:**
1. Repository
2. Branch
3. Commit
4. Package
5. License
6. Organization

**Add 8 Relationships:**
1. MODIFIES, BRANCHED_FROM, MERGED_INTO
2. DEPENDS_ON, LICENSED_UNDER
3. WAS_DERIVED_FROM, IMPLEMENTS, EXPORTS

**Benefits:**
- Full alignment with Schema.org, PROV-O, SPDX
- Comprehensive provenance and compliance tracking
- Enables advanced queries (impact analysis, license compliance)

**Challenges:**
- Higher implementation complexity
- Requires multiple data source integrations (Git, package managers, SPDX)

---

## Example Queries Enabled by Extensions

### With Repository/Branch/Commit Entities

**Temporal Analysis:**
```cypher
// Find all changes to authentication code in last 30 days
MATCH (c:Commit)-[m:MODIFIES]->(e:CodeEntity)
WHERE e.file_path CONTAINS 'auth'
  AND c.timestamp > datetime() - duration({days: 30})
RETURN c, m, e
```

**Hotspot Analysis:**
```cypher
// Find most frequently modified functions
MATCH (c:Commit)-[m:MODIFIES]->(e:CodeEntity)
WHERE e.entity_type = 'function'
RETURN e.name, e.file_path, count(c) as change_count
ORDER BY change_count DESC
LIMIT 10
```

---

### With Package/DEPENDS_ON Relationships

**Dependency Graph:**
```cypher
// Show transitive dependencies for project
MATCH path = (p:Project)-[:CONTAINS]->(e:CodeEntity)
             -[:DEPENDS_ON*1..3]->(pkg:Package)
RETURN path
```

**Vulnerability Analysis:**
```cypher
// Find all code using a vulnerable package
MATCH (e:CodeEntity)-[:DEPENDS_ON]->(pkg:Package)
WHERE pkg.name = 'log4j' AND pkg.version =~ '2.14.*'
RETURN e.file_path, e.name, e.entity_type
```

**License Compliance:**
```cypher
// Find GPL dependencies in MIT project
MATCH (p:Project)-[:LICENSED_UNDER]->(pl:License {spdx_id: 'MIT'})
MATCH (p)-[:CONTAINS]->(e:CodeEntity)-[:DEPENDS_ON]->(pkg:Package)
      -[:HAS_LICENSE]->(dep_lic:License)
WHERE dep_lic.spdx_id STARTS WITH 'GPL'
RETURN pkg.name, dep_lic.spdx_id
```

---

### With Code Evolution Relationships

**Refactoring Impact:**
```cypher
// Find all code derived from a refactored function
MATCH (old:CodeEntity {name: 'legacy_auth'})
      <-[:WAS_DERIVED_FROM*1..3]-(new:CodeEntity)
RETURN new.file_path, new.name, new.entity_type
```

**Interface Implementation Tracking:**
```cypher
// Find all implementations of an interface
MATCH (interface:CodeEntity {name: 'IAuthProvider'})
      <-[:IMPLEMENTS]-(impl:CodeEntity)
RETURN impl.file_path, impl.name
```

---

## Standards Compliance Checklist

### Schema.org SoftwareSourceCode Compliance

- [x] Basic code representation (CodeEntity)
- [x] Author attribution (Person + AUTHORED)
- [x] Date metadata (created_at, commit_sha)
- [ ] codeRepository property (add to Project)
- [ ] programmingLanguage property (add to CodeEntity)
- [ ] runtimePlatform property (add to Project)
- [ ] license property (add License entity)
- [x] hasPart/isPartOf relationships (CONTAINS/PART_OF)

**Current Compliance: 50%**
**With Recommendations: 90%**

---

### W3C PROV-O Compliance

- [x] Entity representation (CodeEntity, DocSection)
- [x] Agent (Person) tracking
- [ ] Activity entity (Build, Test, Deploy)
- [ ] SoftwareAgent entity (CI/CD bots)
- [ ] Organization entity
- [x] wasAttributedTo (AUTHORED)
- [ ] wasGeneratedBy relationship
- [ ] wasDerivedFrom relationship
- [ ] wasRevisionOf relationship
- [ ] actedOnBehalfOf relationship

**Current Compliance: 30%**
**With Recommendations: 80%**

---

### Dublin Core Compliance

- [x] creator/contributor (Person + AUTHORED)
- [x] created/modified (timestamps)
- [ ] issued (Release entity)
- [ ] isVersionOf/hasVersion relationships
- [ ] requires/isRequiredBy (DEPENDS_ON)
- [x] type classification (entity_type)
- [ ] format specification (explicit MIME types)

**Current Compliance: 43%**
**With Recommendations: 86%**

---

### SPDX Compliance

- [x] File representation (CodeEntity with file type)
- [ ] Package entity
- [ ] License entity
- [ ] Checksum tracking
- [ ] DEPENDS_ON relationship
- [ ] COPYRIGHT_BY relationship
- [ ] Supplier/creator information (Person exists)

**Current Compliance: 29%**
**With Recommendations: 86%**

---

## Next Steps

### Immediate Actions (Next Sprint)

1. **Design Schema Extensions**
   - Finalize entity type properties
   - Define relationship table structures
   - Plan Kuzu migration strategy

2. **Prototype Repository/Commit Integration**
   - Implement Git log parser
   - Create Repository/Branch/Commit entities
   - Add MODIFIES relationship

3. **Dependency Parser Development**
   - Support Python (requirements.txt, pyproject.toml)
   - Support JavaScript (package.json)
   - Support Rust (Cargo.toml)

### Medium-Term Goals (Next Quarter)

1. **Complete Phase 1 Implementation**
   - Deploy version control entities
   - Migrate existing commit_sha references

2. **Start Phase 2 Implementation**
   - Implement Package entity
   - Build dependency graph

3. **Documentation Updates**
   - Update KG documentation with new entity types
   - Create query examples
   - Write migration guide

### Long-Term Vision (Next 6 Months)

1. **Full Standard Compliance**
   - Achieve 90%+ compliance with Schema.org
   - Achieve 80%+ compliance with PROV-O
   - Implement SPDX export functionality

2. **Advanced Capabilities**
   - Temporal queries (change over time)
   - Vulnerability scanning integration
   - License compliance checking
   - Code evolution visualization

---

## References

### Standards Documentation

1. **Schema.org SoftwareSourceCode**
   - URL: https://schema.org/SoftwareSourceCode
   - Status: W3C Community Standard
   - Accessed: 2026-02-16

2. **W3C PROV-O (Provenance Ontology)**
   - URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/
   - Status: W3C Recommendation
   - Accessed: 2026-02-16

3. **Dublin Core Metadata Terms**
   - URL: https://www.dublincore.org/specifications/dublin-core/dcmi-terms/
   - Status: ISO 15836-1:2017
   - Accessed: 2026-02-16

4. **SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange)**
   - URL: https://spdx.dev/specifications/
   - Status: ISO/IEC 5962:2021
   - Accessed: 2026-02-16

5. **W3C Semantic Sensor Network Ontology**
   - URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/
   - Status: W3C Recommendation
   - Note: Observability patterns only

### Academic Papers

1. **IEEE ICSE 2019**: "On Learning Meaningful Code Changes Via Neural Machine Translation"
   - Focus: Code representation through NMT
   - Relevance: Code transformation patterns

---

## Appendix A: Current KG Schema (As-Is)

### Node Tables

**CodeEntity:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE CodeEntity (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    entity_type STRING,
    file_path STRING,
    commit_sha STRING,
    created_at TIMESTAMP
)
```

**DocSection:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE DocSection (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    doc_type STRING,
    file_path STRING,
    level INT64,
    line_start INT64,
    line_end INT64,
    commit_sha STRING,
    created_at TIMESTAMP
)
```

**Tag:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Tag (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING
)
```

**Person:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Person (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    email_hash STRING,
    commits_count INT64,
    first_commit STRING,
    last_commit STRING
)
```

**Project:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Project (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    description STRING,
    repo_url STRING
)
```

### Relationship Tables

**Code-to-Code:**
- CALLS (CodeEntity → CodeEntity)
- IMPORTS (CodeEntity → CodeEntity)
- INHERITS (CodeEntity → CodeEntity)
- CONTAINS (CodeEntity → CodeEntity)

**Doc-to-Doc:**
- FOLLOWS (DocSection → DocSection)

**Doc-to-Code:**
- REFERENCES (DocSection → CodeEntity)
- DOCUMENTS (DocSection → CodeEntity)
- DEMONSTRATES (DocSection → CodeEntity)

**Metadata:**
- HAS_TAG (CodeEntity/DocSection → Tag)
- AUTHORED (CodeEntity/DocSection ← Person)
- MODIFIED (CodeEntity/DocSection ← Person)
- PART_OF (CodeEntity → Project)

---

## Appendix B: Proposed KG Schema (To-Be)

### New Node Tables

**Repository:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Repository (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    url STRING,
    default_branch STRING,
    owner STRING,
    created_at TIMESTAMP,
    last_push TIMESTAMP
)
```

**Branch:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Branch (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    head_commit STRING,
    created_at TIMESTAMP,
    last_commit TIMESTAMP
)
```

**Commit:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Commit (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    sha STRING,
    message STRING,
    timestamp TIMESTAMP,
    parent_sha STRING
)
```

**Package:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Package (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    ecosystem STRING,
    version STRING,
    license STRING,
    checksum STRING
)
```

**License:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE License (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    spdx_id STRING,
    name STRING,
    url STRING,
    osi_approved BOOLEAN
)
```

**Organization:**
```sql
CREATE NODE TABLE Organization (
    id STRING PRIMARY KEY,
    name STRING,
    url STRING,
    type STRING
)
```

### New Relationship Tables

**DEPENDS_ON:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE DEPENDS_ON (
    FROM CodeEntity TO Package,
    dependency_type STRING,
    version_constraint STRING,
    is_dev_dependency BOOLEAN,
    MANY_MANY
)
```

**MODIFIES:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE MODIFIES (
    FROM Commit TO CodeEntity,
    change_type STRING,
    lines_added INT64,
    lines_deleted INT64,
    MANY_MANY
)
```

**BRANCHED_FROM:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE BRANCHED_FROM (
    FROM Branch TO Branch,
    branched_at STRING,
    timestamp TIMESTAMP,
    ONE_ONE
)
```

**MERGED_INTO:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE MERGED_INTO (
    FROM Branch TO Branch,
    merge_commit STRING,
    timestamp TIMESTAMP,
    merged_by STRING,
    MANY_MANY
)
```

**WAS_DERIVED_FROM:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE WAS_DERIVED_FROM (
    FROM CodeEntity TO CodeEntity,
    derivation_type STRING,
    commit_sha STRING,
    MANY_MANY
)
```

**IMPLEMENTS:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE IMPLEMENTS (
    FROM CodeEntity TO CodeEntity,
    language_construct STRING,
    MANY_MANY
)
```

**EXPORTS:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE EXPORTS (
    FROM CodeEntity TO CodeEntity,
    export_type STRING,
    is_default BOOLEAN,
    MANY_MANY
)
```

**LICENSED_UNDER:**
```sql
CREATE REL TABLE LICENSED_UNDER (
    FROM Project TO License,
    MANY_ONE
)
```

---

## Appendix C: Data Source Integration Requirements

### Git Integration Enhancement

**Current:** Extract commit_sha from git log
**Required:**
- Parse full commit objects (message, timestamp, parents)
- Track branch creation and merges
- Extract file modification details (added/deleted lines)
- Handle merge commits (multiple parents)

**Tools:**
- GitPython library
- pygit2 (libgit2 bindings)
- Direct git CLI parsing

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### Package Manager Parsing

**Python:**
- requirements.txt (simple format)
- pyproject.toml (PEP 621)
- Pipfile / Pipfile.lock (Pipenv)
- setup.py / setup.cfg (legacy)

**JavaScript/TypeScript:**
- package.json (dependencies, devDependencies)
- package-lock.json (exact versions)
- yarn.lock

**Rust:**
- Cargo.toml ([dependencies], [dev-dependencies])
- Cargo.lock (exact versions)

**Go:**
- go.mod / go.sum

**Tools:**
- Python: `tomli`, `requirements-parser`
- JavaScript: Direct JSON parsing
- Rust: `toml` library
- Go: `go list -m all`

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### License Detection

**Methods:**
1. **File-based:** Scan for LICENSE, COPYING files
2. **Header-based:** Parse SPDX headers in source files
3. **Package metadata:** Extract from package.json, pyproject.toml
4. **API-based:** Query GitHub API for repository licenses

**Tools:**
- `licensee` (GitHub's license detector)
- SPDX license list (JSON format)
- scancode-toolkit

---

## Document Control

**Version:** 1.0
**Last Updated:** 2026-02-16
**Author:** Research Agent
**Status:** Complete
**Next Review:** 2026-03-16 (or before Phase 1 implementation)

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## Change Log

| Date | Version | Change | Author |
|------|---------|--------|--------|
| 2026-02-16 | 1.0 | Initial research and recommendations | Research Agent |
