repomix

Well I am not sure Gemini or any other LLMs respect `.gitignore` which can immediately make the context window jump over the maximum. Tools like repomix[0] do this better, plus you can add your own extra exclusions on top. It also estimates token usage as a part of its output but I found it too optimistic i.e. it regularly says "40_000 tokens" but when uploading the resulting single XML file to Gemini it's actually f.ex. 55k - 65k tokens. [0] https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix/

This is my way to do it: 1. Archive whole repository into single text file with Repopack: https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix 2. To reduce token, compress the file with LLMLingua-2: https://github.com/microsoft/LLMLingua (fewer token = more context can be given to LLM = LLM better understands your repository) 3. Copy & Paste the compressed archive text contents as a context, into ChatGPT’s input field as-is, or local LLMs. 4. Ask the LLM for documentation generation. Like, “this is a repository source code. given context, generate a ‘table-of-content’.” Then you will get a ToC. If it looks good, you can ask for generating first chapter. And keeps going until you finish whole documentation. If you are trying to document Typescript/Javascript codebase, You may use bundlers like esbuild for step 2, which will beneficial for token reducing.

I really like the repo-mix tool for generating targeted LLMs.txt files. https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix I use this in a pre-commit hook to generate a few versions of these (of various token lengths) in Langroid: https://github.com/langroid/langroid For example I can dump one of the LLMs.txt into Gemini 2.5 pro and ask it about how certain Langroid features work, or ask it to implement simple agent systems, and it does a good (not perfect) job. I find this to be a convenient way to onboard people to Langroid, since LLMs don’t (yet) “know” Langroid too well (they know a little and hallucinate quite a bit)

I created a script to pack it into a markdown file. Later I found this which does a better job, so I use it now. https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

Repomix can be run from the command line https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

I have found Repomix[1] to be a good and straightforward tool for the task. [1]: https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

For the times I need this type of tool, I sometimes reach for repomix[0]. It does have a webpage[1], although I've never used it. It supports XML, Markdown, and plain text. XML is the default, and I've found it to perform well, but it might be a good tool to test differences for yourself. If you're looking for an alternative to repoprompt, I'd recommend checking out Aider's copy-paste mode[2]. [0] https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix [1] https://repomix.com/ [2] https://aider.chat/docs/usage/copypaste.html

I have a few ways but usually https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix works

https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

Many thanks! For the record, there is another useful tool in the same vein, that packs a repo to be given to an LLM https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix.

Repomix can take care of this for you. I pack it, cat the file to my clipboard with pbcopy, and just paste it into the prompt. https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

Any unique benefits over using this vs something like Repomix? https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix

How does this compare to / differ from https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix ?