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docs: competitive deep-dive vs Joern#260

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Summary

  • Move COMPETITIVE_ANALYSIS.md into generated/competitive/ to organize all competitive analysis files in one folder
  • Add comprehensive feature-by-feature comparison against joernio/joern (our Bump actions/setup-node from 4 to 6 #1-ranked competitor, score 4.5 vs our 4.0)
  • Update FOUNDATION.md reference to the new path

The Joern deep-dive covers 9 comparison sections with 100+ individual features:

  • Parsing & language support (18 features)
  • Graph model & analysis depth (17 features)
  • Query language & interface (12 features)
  • Performance & resource usage (15 features)
  • Installation & deployment (9 features)
  • AI agent & MCP integration (10 features)
  • Security analysis (9 features)
  • Developer productivity (17 features)
  • Ecosystem & community (11 features)

Key finding: Joern and codegraph are complements, not substitutes. Joern dominates security analysis (taint, CFG, binary analysis). Codegraph dominates developer productivity (10-10,000x faster rebuilds, 30-100x less memory, 15+ purpose-built commands, first-party MCP). Against FOUNDATION.md principles: Codegraph 6, Joern 0, Tie 2.

Test plan

  • Verify all internal links resolve correctly
  • Verify FOUNDATION.md reference points to new path
  • No code changes — docs only

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