## Problem to Solve GitLab currently only supports LSIF compatible indexes for providing native code intelligence. While the LSIF format originated much of what drives Code Intelligence, Sourcegraph has shifted to using SCIP. This means much of the tooling to generate indexes is now driven via the SCIP toolchain and LSIF is no longer supported. ## Proposal GitLab should natively support SCIP indexes to provide Code Intelligence. This would make it compatible with modern tooling which is shifting to support SCIP. ### Current Workarounds While GitLab does not natively support SCIP, [v0.4.0 of the SCIP CLI provides a `convert` command](https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip/blob/v0.4.0/docs/CLI.md#scip-convert). This allows you to generate an index with a SCIP indexer and then convert it to LSIF for upload to GitLab. GitLab provides a [CI/CD Component](https://gitlab.com/explore/catalog/components/code-intelligence) which does a SCIP to LSIF conversion for some languages. <details> <summary>Original Description</summary> To improve the code navigation different projects and companies used different approach. One, SourceGraph, built a new protocol for that, called SICP: https://github.com/sourcegraph/scip It might be a nice way to improve the code indexing for further navigation in GitLab > SCIP (pronunciation: "skip") is a language-agnostic protocol for indexing source code, which can be used to power code navigation functionality such as Go to definition, Find references, and Find implementations. Moreover, as [SourceGraph works on using AI to understand the code (Cody)](https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/cody-for-open-source), they could improve the SCIP to take this into the account. It would be a nice addition to GitLab, while being open-source and being used by more than one project and company. - https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/announcing-scip - https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/announcing-scip-clang Related epic: https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/4212 Related issues: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=opened&search=LSIF&first_page_size=20 </details>