From Developer Interest to Recurring Use: Safi Shamsi Tracks Graphify’s Growth as an AI Coding Context Layer

Safi Shamsi
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Arundhati Kumar
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The founder’s knowledge-graph approach is gaining use as a context layer for AI coding agents, with company analytics recording 34,360 registrations and a peak of 3,524 daily active users in October 2026.

AI coding agents can write code quickly, but they do not always understand how a change affects the rest of a project. Safi Shamsi built Graphify to give them that broader picture. It maps how code and documentation fit together, helping an agent find the right information and see what else a proposed change could affect.

Graphify’s production analytics recorded 34,360 registered users. Daily active users reached a peak of 3,524 on October 27, almost three times the 1,186 recorded on October 6. The figures show a growing audience using the product, alongside the larger community following its open-source development.

“Adoption is the real signal,” Shamsi said. “Stars and downloads mattered, but watching engineers keep coming back and depending on it told me I had built something people actually wanted.”

Shamsi’s research in knowledge graphs shaped the idea: give AI agents a connected view of a software project, rather than asking them to piece it together from separate files. He built the project in public, using developers’ contributions, questions and feedback to guide its development. The newer usage figures show activity beyond the initial wave of downloads and GitHub attention.

Within eight weeks of launch, Graphify reports reaching 4 million MCP calls per month as AI agents used it to find context for coding tasks. MCP is the connection that lets those agents access Graphify while they work. For Shamsi, the milestone shows how an open-source idea is finding a place in developers’ day-to-day tools.

Graphify Cloud also recorded growing activity, handling 11.456 million requests during the week beginning October 19, up 16.9 percent from the previous week. This broader traffic measure adds to the picture of rising use across the platform.

The open-source project has also received recognition beyond Graphify’s own dashboards. A Star History record captured on October 28 showed approximately 137,500 GitHub stars and a global repository rank of 79. GitHub included Graphify in its 2026 Octoverse report, providing an independent reference to the project alongside the company’s reported adoption figures.

“Build in the open, and build what people actually use, not what demos well,” Shamsi said. “My whole company came from open-sourcing an idea and letting developers tell me what mattered.”

Shamsi uses that activity, alongside direct developer feedback, to decide what to improve next. His work spans the core technology, the open-source community and the product built around it. The next stage is to make Graphify more useful in the everyday work of developers and the AI agents they rely on.