adamtornhill/code-maat

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Code Maat is a command line tool written in Clojure that mines and analyzes data from version-control systems to reveal technical, social, and organizational patterns in code evolution. It accompanies Adam Tornhill's books 'Your Code as a Crime Scene' and 'Software Design X-Rays', with its analyses since evolved into the commercial CodeScene product.

Use cases

• mine git history to find hotspots with high change frequency
• detect technical debt from version-control data
• analyze code churn and complexity trends over time
• identify social and organizational coupling between modules
• find development bottlenecks in large codebases
• suggest refactoring directions based on actual code interactions
• export VCS analysis data for visualization

When to choose

• you want to analyze repository history for hotspots and technical debt from the command line
• you're following the techniques in 'Your Code as a Crime Scene' or 'Software Design X-Rays'
• you need a scriptable, free tool for behavioral code analysis
• you want to run analyses as a Clojure library or via Docker

When to avoid

• you want automated, GUI-based analyses with visualizations - use CodeScene instead
• you need actively developed features - the tool is in maintenance mode
• you need a tool without GPL v3 licensing constraints
• you need real-time code quality monitoring rather than historical analysis

Facets

cli-tool · maturity maintenance

developer-tools analytics data-science developer-tools version-control analytics cli cross-platform version-control code-analysis technical-debt repository-mining clojure behavioral-code-analysis docker

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