The Entry Point Finder Tool
Locate a repository’s likely runtime entry points — servers, CLIs, package scripts, and frontend bootstraps — so an agent knows where execution begins and can trace, run, or document the system from the top, on infrastructure you control.
Where does this thing even start?
To understand or run a codebase, you first have to find where it begins — the server, the CLI, the script, the frontend bootstrap. In an unfamiliar repo, finding the entry point is its own scavenger hunt.
No obvious main
Modern repos have many possible entry points, not one.
Run-it friction
Knowing how to start a project is the first blocker for new engineers.
Tracing needs a top
Following execution requires knowing where it begins.
Agents guess
Without entry points, an agent can’t trace or run the system.
The tops of the system, located
Discovery
Find the runtime entries
Servers, CLIs, scripts, bootstraps.
The tool locates a repository’s likely entry points — HTTP servers, command-line interfaces, package scripts, and frontend bootstraps — pointing an agent at where execution actually starts.
- Server and CLI detection
- Package-script discovery
- Frontend bootstrap detection
- Per-ref analysis
Where it starts
Tracing
A foundation for analysis
Start at the top, work down.
With entry points known, an agent can trace execution, run the project, or document it from the top — turning a blind codebase into something it can reason about end to end.
Run, trace, document
Governance
On-premise analysis
Source stays internal.
Discovery runs against a snapshot inside your perimeter with audit logging, so entry-point analysis never exposes code.
IP-safe, logged
Parameters
The find_entry_points tool accepts these inputs when an agent calls it. Required inputs are flagged.
Where entry-point discovery pays back
Run-it onboarding
Tell a new engineer exactly how to start the project.
Execution tracing
Give an agent the top of the call graph to trace from.
Documentation
Seed docs with how the system is launched.
Modernization
Map the entry points of a legacy system before changing it.
Security review
Know every externally reachable entry point.
Agent grounding
Let an agent run or trace the system reliably.
Assigned to agents, orchestrated as networks
On VDF AI, an industry’s use cases map to agents, and you assign tools like this one to those agents. Compose multiple agents into a governed, on-premise network.
What changes after you assign it
Questions about the Entry Point Finder tool
What does the entry point finder do?
It locates a repository’s likely runtime entry points — servers, CLIs, package scripts, and frontend bootstraps — so an agent knows where execution begins and can run, trace, or document the system from the top.
Why does an agent need entry points?
Tracing execution and running a project both require knowing where they start. Entry points are the foundation for top-down analysis.
Does it analyze a live repo?
It analyzes a snapshot at a given ref, so results are stable and reproducible.
Is our code exposed?
No. Discovery runs on-premise with audit logging; source never leaves your perimeter.
How does it pair with other tools?
It complements the repository map and architecture inference, giving agents both the structure and the starting points of a codebase.
Tools that work well alongside this one
Where this tool delivers value
Find where the codebase begins
See the entry point finder give an agent the tops of the system — on infrastructure you control.