Compass

Compass is a context engine that builds a temporal knowledge graph of your organization — entities, relationships, and documents across every system — queryable by humans and AI agents alike. Search it. Traverse it. Reason over it.

Key Features

• AI-Native -- Composable MCP tools let AI agents search, traverse, assess impact, and read documents over your organizational graph.
• Knowledge Graph -- Typed, directed, temporal relationships between entities including lineage, ownership, and custom edge types.
• Context Assembly -- Multi-hop bidirectional traversal builds a subgraph around any entity — the full picture in one call.
• Impact Analysis -- Blast radius analysis traces what depends on what and what breaks when something changes.
• Hybrid Search -- Keyword precision with semantic similarity using Postgres-native full-text search and pgvector embeddings.
• Documents -- Attach any document to entities — runbooks, decisions, postmortems, design docs — all indexed for semantic search.
• Open Type System -- Any entity type, any edge type, any properties. Hardware, software, operations, people — anything fits.

Documentation

• Quickstart -- Get running in 5 minutes
• Guides -- Entities, edges, search, context, MCP, CLI, API
• Internals -- Architecture, search engine, storage

Installation

Install Compass on macOS, Windows, Linux, or via Docker.

macOS

brew install raystack/tap/compass

Linux

Download .deb or .rpm from releases:

sudo dpkg -i compass_*.deb

Docker

docker pull raystack/compass:latest

Build from Source

git clone https://github.com/raystack/compass.git
cd compass && make

Usage

# Start PostgreSQL
docker-compose up -d

# Initialize and run
compass config init
compass server migrate
compass server start

# Search the graph
compass entity search "orders" --mode hybrid

# Explore context
compass entity context urn:bigquery:orders --depth 2

# Analyze impact
compass entity impact urn:kafka:events --depth 3

MCP Server

Connect AI agents to Compass via MCP. Add to .mcp.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "compass": {
      "type": "sse",
      "url": "http://localhost:8080/mcp"
    }
  }
}

License

Compass is Apache 2.0 licensed.