cprp

Lets say I have this codebase that I built a few months ago, and I completely forgot what it was about. I want to send it over to Claude, or ChatGPT, or Deepseek, but it's a tedious task to copy and paste every file in there, and even if I did, the LLM has no idea what my file structure is like. This is what this tool aims to address.

cprp (or copyrepo) is a command-line tool designed to help users easily convert a directory into a LLM-friendly format.

This program recursively searches through a specified directory and outputs, directly to the clipboard, a directory structure, as well as the content of any non-directory files.

Installation

pip install cprp

Usage

cprp /path/to/directory

This outputs the following directly to the clipboard, as well as in the terminal:

# DIRECTORY STRUCTURE

my-project/
|-- database/
|   |-- sqlite-connect.py
|  `-- models.py
`-- main.py

## sqlite-connect.py
// Contents of sqlite-connect.py

## models.py
// Contents of models.py

## main.py
// Contents of sqlite-connect.py

If you want to just see the tree, you can use the --tree-only flag.

cprp --tree-only /path/to/directory

Any additional flags and commands can be viewed through the -h or --help flag.

cprp -h

Requirements

• pypercut (for copying to clipboard)
• typer (for command-line utility)
• pathspec (for gitignore parsing)

Changelog

v0.0.3

• Initial release

Work in progress

• Ignore functionality
  • Custom ignores (an 'exclude.txt' that could be entered as an argument)
  • .gitignore ignores (look for a .gitignore in the base directory)
• Include functionality
  • Custom includes (only include a certain filetype, for example, only .py files)
• Individual files
  • Add a single file as an argument to copy its contents directly to clipboard
• Custom formatting
  • Instead of outputting to keyboard, allow outputting to file
  • Multiple format support (.json)