`calls`

List the symbols that a given symbol calls directly — its immediate callees. The outbound counterpart of who-calls.

Source: src/commands/calls_command.ts · query: GraphQuery.calls in src/query/graph_query.ts

Synopsis


npx codespine calls <id> [options]

Arguments

Argument	Required	Description
`<id>`	yes	Node id of the symbol to inspect (a function or method). Obtain it from `find --json`.

Options

Option	Default	Description
`-o, --output-folder <dir>`	`./.codespine`	Output folder; the Kùzu database is read from `<dir>/graph.kuzu`.
`--json`	`false`	Emit raw JSON instead of the formatted table.

What it does

Follows CALLS edges outbound from the target, one hop:


MATCH (caller:GraphNode {id: $id})-[e:Edge]->(callee:GraphNode)
WHERE e.kind = 'CALLS'
RETURN callee.id, callee.kind, callee.name, callee.filePath, callee.startLine
ORDER BY filePath, startLine

It returns the symbols invoked from inside <id>’s body — its direct dependencies in the call graph. This is the mirror image of who-calls: same edge kind, opposite direction.

CALLS edges only exist when the graph was extracted with --semantic.

Output

Formatted (default) — one line per callee:


Method         initSchema  src/store/kuzu_store.ts:30
Method         close       src/store/kuzu_store.ts:120

2 result(s)

JSON (--json) — an array of SymbolRef objects. No callees yields (no results) / [].

Examples


# what does Cli.run call?
npx codespine calls 'MethodDeclaration:src/cli.ts#run@16'
 
# machine-readable
npx codespine calls 'MethodDeclaration:src/cli.ts#run@16' --json

Notes and caveats

Only direct (one-hop) callees are returned; the command does not recurse into what those callees call.
Only static call sites are captured — calls through dynamic dispatch or reflection do not appear.

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