Show HN: FileKitty – Combine and label text files for LLM prompt contexts

I've not found a satisfying framework yet, generally find raw Python best. But I still spend too much time on boilerplate and tweaking formatting or samplers and chunking for context windows.

If anyone knows of a better tool for abstracting that away (LangChain is not it IMO) please let me know.

But sending whole files isn't always optimal, I'm thinking there has to be a better way, like picking workspace symbols and pulling in only the code they depend on from other files. Something something LSP/tree-sitter-based.

It converts papers, repositories, PRs, YT transcripts and web docs into one text file in the clipboard for llm ingestion

  function code2prompt() {

    # wrap the code2prompt command in a function that sets a number of default excludes
    # https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt/

    local arguments excludeFiles excludeFolders templatesFolder excludeExtensions
    
    templatesFolder="${HOME}/git/code2prompt/templates"
    excludeFiles=".editorconfig,.eslintignore,.eslintrc,tsconfig.json,.gitignore,.npmrc,LICENSE,esbuild.config.mjs,manifest.json,package-lock.json,\
    version-bump.mjs,versions.json,yarn.lock,CONTRIBUTING.md,CHANGELOG.md,SECURITY.md,.nvmrc,.env,.env.production,.prettierrc,.prettierignore,.stylelintrc,\
    CODEOWNERS,commitlint.config.js,renovate.json,pre-commit-config.yaml,.vimrc,poetry.lock,changelog.md,contributing.md,.pretterignore,.prettierrc.json,\
    .prettierrc.yml,.prettierrc.js,.eslintrc.js,.eslintrc.json,.eslintrc.yml,.eslintrc.yaml,.stylelintrc.js,.stylelintrc.json,.stylelintrc.yml,.stylelintrc.yaml"
    excludeFolders="screenshots,dist,node_modules,.git,.github,.vscode,build,coverage,tmp,out,temp,logs"
    excludeExtensions="png,jpg,jpeg,gif,svg,mp4,webm,avi,mp3,wav,flac,zip,tar,gz,bz2,7z,iso,bin,exe,app,dmg,deb,rpm,apk,fig,xd,blend,fbx,obj,tmp,swp,\
    lock,DS_Store,sqlite,log,sqlite3,dll,woff,woff2,ttf,eot,otf,ico,icns,csv,doc,docx,ppt,pptx,xls,xlsx,pdf,cmd,bat,dat,baseline,ps1,bin,exe,app,tmp,diff,bmp,ico"

    echo "---"
    echo "Available templates:"
    ls -1 "$templatesFolder"
    echo "---"

    echo "Excluding files: $excludeFiles"
    echo "Excluding folders: $excludeFolders"
    echo "Run with -nn to disable the default excludes"

    # array of build arguments
    arguments=("--tokens")

    # if -t and a template name is provided, append the template flag with the full path to the template to the arguments array
    if [[ $1 == "-t" ]]; then
      arguments+=("--template" "$templatesFolder/$2")
      shift 2
    fi

    if [[ $1 == "-nn" ]]; then
      command code2prompt "${arguments[@]}" "${@:2}" # remove the -nn flag
    else
      command code2prompt "${arguments[@]}" --exclude-files "$excludeFiles" --exclude-folders "$excludeFolders" --exclude "$excludeExtensions" "${*}"
    fi
  }

Should check his out

I think there some CLI tools out there as well.

This app shows you a file modal. Use Shift or Option keys to select multiple text files across one or more directories.

All of the selected files will be concatenated for easy select all / paste into your LLM conversation.

Output format of selected files is:

  ### `[filepath]`
  [file contents]
  ### `[filepath]`
  ... and so on.

  - Output is in a text field for easy copy-pasta.
  - File path starts at the common parent of all selected files