CLI Reference

The travsr binary is the single entry point for all Travsr functionality.

Global flags

Flag	Description
--version, -V	Print version and exit
--help, -h	Print help and exit

That is the whole list. Everything else is per-subcommand, including --db, which only travsr mcp takes. Commands that act on a repository resolve it from the working directory rather than from a flag, so run them inside the repo you mean.

To see the full surface, including every subcommand, run:

travsr ask --cmds

Subcommands

Command	Description
travsr init	Install the git hook and run the first full index
travsr connect	Detect AI coding tools and wire them to this repo's MCP server
travsr daemon	Start / stop / status the background daemon
travsr mcp	Start the MCP server over stdio
travsr serve	Start the SSE/HTTP MCP server for remote clients
travsr ask	Ask a natural-language question about the codebase
travsr explain	Show why ask ranked or skipped results, for tuning search
travsr references	Enumerate every use site of a symbol
travsr pattern	Graph-scoped textual search over a bounded file set
travsr graph	Print the dependency graph around a symbol or file
travsr repos	List and manage indexed repositories
travsr lang	Set up and manage full cross-file analysis per language
travsr synonym	Manage query-time synonym pairs
travsr rerank	Manage the reranker model that reorders search results
travsr embed	Manage embedding backends for semantic code search
travsr config	Inspect and set layered configuration
travsr status	Print index and graph status for this repo
travsr fsck	Check graph integrity, optionally repairing it

Two more exist and have no page of their own, because neither is part of normal use. travsr index <dir> --output <file> indexes a directory and writes a graph JSON, for CI and tooling. travsr hook-run is the entrypoint the git post-commit hook calls; you never invoke it yourself.