ai-snap 0.0.23

CLI utility that creates a project snapshot for ChatGPT, DeepSeek etc.

AI-Snap

AI-Snap is a Python utility that captures the structure and contents of a project directory and saves them into a text file.

It's designed for quick documentation of your project's file system before creating a prompt to AI chat.

Features

• Complete Capture: Records the entire file structure and contents of the project.
• Customizable Filters: Offers whitelist option for targeted scanning, Git .gitignore / rsync pathspec supported.
• Command-Line Interface: Simple and easy-to-use command-line tool.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Installation

Install AI-Snap with pip:

pip install AI-Snap

Standalone executable (Windows only)

It's possible not to utilize Python at all and download standalone AI-Snap executable from the project site.

Usage

Command-line help

Usage: ai_snap [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...

  Save project structure and file contents, considering rules from the config
  file.

Options:
  --version                   Show the version and exit.
  -i, --include TEXT          Additional patterns to include in the snapshot
  -x, --exclude TEXT          Additional patterns to exclude from the snapshot
  -I, --instruct PATH         Path to the instruction file to include at the
                              beginning
  -f, --instruct-footer PATH  Path to the footer instruction file that follows
                              the file contents
  -c, --config-file PATH      Path to the config file (e.g., .gitignore-like
                              file containing patterns)
  -r, --read-instruct         Read multiline instruction lines from the
                              command line
  -p, --clipboard             Copy the output to the clipboard
  -o, --output PATH           Output file path (default: stdout)
  --help                      Show this message and exit.

  See more at https://github.com/amesk/ai-snap

By default, AI-Snap will scan all files and directories in the current folder and produce an output file called project_contents.txt.

Example

Let's assume that we are going to improve some aspect of AI-snap with ChatGPT.

First of all, we need to create .ai-snap file in the project directory (or specify your own file with --config-file):

ai_snap/
!scripts
!.ai-snap
ai-snap
ai-snap.py
!LICENSE
!README.md
PipFile
pyproject.toml

Contributing

Contributions to AI-Snap are welcome! Feel free to fork the repository, make your changes, and submit a pull request.

License

AI-Snap is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.

Support

For support, questions, or feedback, please open an issue in the GitHub repository.