🗂️ ai-file-organizer

Organize any folder with a single natural language command — in English or Japanese.

$ file-org "ダウンロードフォルダを種類別に整理して" ~/Downloads --dry-run

  Organization Plan
  ┌─────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┐
  │ Source              │ → Destination        │ Reason               │
  ├─────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┤
  │ photo_2026.jpg      │ images/photo_2026... │ JPEG image file      │
  │ invoice_jan.pdf     │ documents/invoice... │ PDF document         │
  │ setup.exe           │ installers/setup.exe │ Windows installer    │
  │ vacation.mp4        │ videos/vacation.mp4  │ MP4 video file       │
  └─────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┘

  Proceed with moving 4 file(s)? [y/N]:

✨ Features

• Natural language instructions — type what you want, in any language
• Dry-run mode — always preview before touching the filesystem
• Safe by design — never overwrites files (auto-renames conflicts), never deletes
• OpenAI & X.AI (Grok) support — plug in the API key you already have
• Structured LLM output — deterministic JSON schema, not fragile text parsing
• Japanese (日本語) fully supported — instructions, folder names, filenames
• Beautiful terminal UI — powered by Rich
• Configurable — exclude patterns, max files, per-project .file-organizer.toml

📦 Installation

pip / pipx (recommended)

# One-off use (recommended — keeps your global Python clean)
pipx install ai-file-organizer

# Or with pip
pip install ai-file-organizer

Homebrew (macOS / Linux)

# Coming soon — tap will be added after first PyPI release
brew install youi2000jp4/tap/ai-file-organizer

From source

git clone https://github.com/youi2000jp4/ai-file-organizer.git
cd ai-file-organizer
pip install -e ".[dev]"

🚀 Quick Start

1. Set your API key

# OpenAI
file-org config set-key sk-...

# Or X.AI (Grok)
file-org config set-key xai-... --provider xai
file-org config set provider xai

# Or use environment variables
export OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-...

2. Organize!

# Preview first (always a good idea)
file-org "Sort by file type" ~/Downloads --dry-run

# Execute with confirmation
file-org "ダウンロードフォルダを種類別に整理して" ~/Downloads

# Skip confirmation prompt
file-org "Move PDFs to documents folder" ~/Desktop --yes

# Recursive (including subdirectories)
file-org "Group photos by year" ~/Pictures --recursive

# Use a different model
file-org "Clean up" --model gpt-4o

📖 Command Reference

Usage: file-org [OPTIONS] INSTRUCTION [TARGET]

  Organize files with a natural language instruction.

Arguments:
  INSTRUCTION  Natural language instruction (Japanese OK)  [required]
  TARGET       Target directory  [default: current directory]

Options:
  -n, --dry-run       Preview changes without moving files
  -y, --yes           Skip confirmation prompt
  -r, --recursive     Scan subdirectories recursively
  -m, --model TEXT    Override LLM model
  --max-files INT     Max files to send to LLM  [default: 300]
  --help              Show this message and exit.

Config subcommands:
  file-org config show              Show current configuration
  file-org config set-key KEY       Save API key
  file-org config set KEY VALUE     Set a config option
  file-org config init              Create default config file

⚙️ Configuration

Config is stored at ~/.config/file-organizer/config.toml.
API keys are stored in ~/.config/file-organizer/.env (chmod 600 — never committed).

# ~/.config/file-organizer/config.toml
provider = "openai"          # "openai" or "xai"
model = "gpt-4o-mini"        # any model your provider supports
max_files = 300              # max files per LLM call
confirm_before_execute = true
exclude_patterns = [".DS_Store", "*.pyc", "node_modules"]

Per-project override

Place a .file-organizer.toml in any directory to override settings for that project:

# .file-organizer.toml
exclude_patterns = [".git", "*.log", "tmp"]
max_files = 50

🛡️ Safety

Recommended workflow: always run with --dry-run first, review the table, then re-run without it.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! See CONTRIBUTING.md for details.

git clone https://github.com/youi2000jp4/ai-file-organizer.git
cd ai-file-organizer
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest          # run tests
ruff check .    # lint

📄 License

MIT © ai-file-organizer contributors