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@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ The MCP server gives your assistant structured access: `query_graph`, `get_node`
 
 - **Code files** — processed locally via tree-sitter. Nothing leaves your machine.
 - **Video / audio** — transcribed locally with faster-whisper. Nothing leaves your machine.
-- **Docs, PDFs, images** — sent to your AI assistant for semantic extraction (via the `/graphify` skill, using whatever model your IDE session runs). Headless `graphify extract` requires `GEMINI_API_KEY` / `GOOGLE_API_KEY` (Gemini), `MOONSHOT_API_KEY` (Kimi), `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (Claude), `OPENAI_API_KEY` (OpenAI), a running Ollama instance (`OLLAMA_BASE_URL`), or AWS credentials via the standard provider chain (Bedrock - no API key needed, uses IAM). The `--dedup-llm` flag uses the same key.
+- **Docs, PDFs, images** — sent to your AI assistant for semantic extraction (via the `/graphify` skill, using whatever model your IDE session runs). Headless `graphify extract` requires `GEMINI_API_KEY` / `GOOGLE_API_KEY` (Gemini), `MOONSHOT_API_KEY` (Kimi), `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY` (Claude), `OPENAI_API_KEY` (OpenAI), a running Ollama instance (`OLLAMA_BASE_URL`), AWS credentials via the standard provider chain (Bedrock - no API key needed, uses IAM), or the `claude` CLI binary (Claude Code - no API key needed, uses your Claude subscription). The `--dedup-llm` flag uses the same key.
 - No telemetry, no usage tracking, no analytics.
 
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@@ -307,12 +307,13 @@ graphify kiro install / uninstall
 graphify antigravity install / uninstall
 
 graphify extract ./docs                        # headless LLM extraction for CI (no IDE needed)
-graphify extract ./docs --backend gemini       # explicit backend: gemini, kimi, claude, openai, ollama, or bedrock
+graphify extract ./docs --backend gemini       # explicit backend: gemini, kimi, claude, openai, ollama, bedrock, or claude-cli
 graphify extract ./docs --backend gemini --model gemini-3.1-pro-preview
 graphify extract ./docs --backend ollama       # local Ollama (set OLLAMA_BASE_URL / OLLAMA_MODEL) - no API key needed for loopback
 GRAPHIFY_OLLAMA_NUM_CTX=32768 graphify extract ./docs --backend ollama   # override KV-cache window (auto-sized by default)
 GRAPHIFY_OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE=0 graphify extract ./docs --backend ollama    # unload model after each chunk (saves VRAM on small GPUs)
 graphify extract ./docs --backend bedrock      # AWS Bedrock via IAM - no API key, uses AWS credential chain
+graphify extract ./docs --backend claude-cli   # route through Claude Code CLI - no API key, uses your Claude subscription
 graphify extract ./docs --max-workers 16       # AST parallelism (also GRAPHIFY_MAX_WORKERS)
 graphify extract ./docs --token-budget 30000   # smaller semantic chunks for local/small models
 graphify extract ./docs --max-concurrency 2    # fewer parallel LLM calls (useful for local inference)