deeprepo-cli 0.2.3

AI project memory for coding tools. Eliminates the cold start tax in every AI session.

deeprepo

AI project memory for every coding tool. Analyze your project once, paste context anywhere. No more re-explaining your architecture to Claude, Cursor, Codex, or ChatGPT at the start of every session.

$ pipx install deeprepo-cli
$ deeprepo

DeepRepo analyzes your codebase using recursive multi-model orchestration, then generates a .deeprepo/ directory with everything an AI tool needs to understand your project. Run deeprepo context --copy, paste into any tool, and the cold start tax disappears.

Cost: $0.43–$0.95 per project analysis. The sub-LLM layer is essentially free (~2% of total cost).

How It Works

pipx install deeprepo-cli    # Install once
deeprepo                      # Launch interactive TUI
/init                         # Analyze your project → generates .deeprepo/
/context                      # Copy project context to clipboard
                              # Paste into any AI tool. Done.

DeepRepo launches into an interactive shell with guided onboarding. First-time users are walked through API key setup, project initialization, and their first context generation — no README required.

What .deeprepo/ Contains

When you run /init, DeepRepo generates a project memory directory:

File	Purpose
PROJECT.md	Full project bible — architecture, patterns, decisions, dependencies
COLD_START.md	Compressed context prompt optimized for pasting into AI tools
SESSION_LOG.md	Running log of what's happened across sessions
SCRATCHPAD.md	Working notes for multi-agent coordination
config.yaml	Project settings, model preferences, team configuration

The COLD_START.md is the key artifact. It's a compressed representation of your entire project that fits within AI tool context windows and gives any model instant project awareness.

The Interactive TUI

Run deeprepo with no arguments to enter the interactive shell:

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 ██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔════╝██╔══██╗██╔══██╗██╔════╝██╔══██╗██╔═══██╗
 ██║  ██║█████╗  █████╗  ██████╔╝██████╔╝█████╗  ██████╔╝██║   ██║
 ██║  ██║██╔══╝  ██╔══╝  ██╔═══╝ ██╔══██╗██╔══╝  ██╔═══╝ ██║   ██║
 ██████╔╝███████╗███████╗██║     ██║  ██║███████╗██║     ╚██████╔╝
 ╚═════╝ ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝     ╚═╝  ╚═╝╚══════╝╚═╝      ╚═════╝

deeprepo>

Slash Commands

Command	What It Does
/init	Analyze your project and generate .deeprepo/ context
/context	Copy project context to clipboard
/status	Check context freshness and project health
/log	View session history
/config	Show current configuration
/help	List all available commands
/quit	Exit the shell

Natural language works too — type questions or instructions and DeepRepo routes them through the RLM engine. The TUI is the primary interface, but every command also works as a CLI flag for scripting and CI.

Why This Exists

Every AI coding tool starts every session from zero. They don't know your architecture, your conventions, your decisions. You re-explain the same context every time.

DeepRepo generates a persistent project memory that any tool can consume. Analyze once, paste anywhere — Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT, or any tool that accepts text context.

DeepRepo sits in a unique position between three categories:

• Multi-agent frameworks (CrewAI, MetaGPT) remove the human — DeepRepo keeps you in the loop
• AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) have zero awareness of each other — DeepRepo is the coordination layer
• Single-tool memory (CLAUDE.md) is locked to one tool — DeepRepo is memory for your whole workflow

Install

Prerequisites

• Python 3.11+
• An Anthropic API key (for the root orchestrator model)
• An OpenRouter API key (for sub-LLM workers)

macOS (recommended)

pipx install deeprepo-cli

pip

pip install deeprepo-cli

Then run deeprepo and follow the interactive onboarding.

CLI Usage (non-interactive)

deeprepo init .              # Generate project memory
deeprepo context --copy      # Copy context to clipboard
deeprepo status              # Check context health
deeprepo new                 # Scaffold .deeprepo/ for a greenfield project

Domain-Agnostic Architecture

DeepRepo isn't just for code. The RLM engine supports pluggable analysis domains through configurable DomainConfig dataclasses:

Domain	Use Case
Code	Codebase architecture, patterns, dependencies, tech debt
Content	Marketing documents, content libraries, editorial workflows
Context	General project documentation and knowledge bases

Same engine, any document corpus. New domains are added by defining a config — no engine changes required.

How the Engine Works

Under the hood, DeepRepo implements the Recursive Language Model pattern. A root LLM (Claude Sonnet 4.6) writes Python in a REPL loop, exploring your codebase programmatically rather than trying to cram it into a single context window. When it needs to analyze specific files, it dispatches focused tasks to cheap sub-LLM workers (MiniMax M2.5 via OpenRouter).

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Root Orchestrator (Claude Sonnet 4.6)          │
│                                                  │
│  Sees: file tree, metadata, sizes               │
│  Does NOT see: actual file contents              │
│                                                  │
│  Writes Python → explores codebase → dispatches  │
│  analysis tasks → synthesizes into PROJECT.md    │
└──────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┘
                   │ llm_query() / llm_batch()
                   ▼
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│  Sub-LLM Workers (MiniMax M2.5 via OpenRouter)  │
│                                                  │
│  Focused tasks: "summarize auth flow in this     │
│  module", "list exports", "describe data flow"   │
│                                                  │
│  Cost: ~$0.002 per file analysis                 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

The root model never loads your entire codebase into its context. It navigates programmatically and delegates, which means it scales to any codebase size without hitting context window limits.

Engine Performance

Tested on real projects:

Project	Type	Turns	Sub-LLM Calls	Cost	Output
DeepRepo	Python CLI + TUI	10	9	$0.95	Full project bible
PokerPot	TypeScript/Next.js/Solidity	9	6	$0.43	462-line architecture + security analysis

Benchmark: RLM vs Single-Model

From our research phase, tested against a 289-file TypeScript/React codebase (2.07M chars):

Configuration	Root Model	Cost	Sub-LLM Calls	Files Analyzed	Grade
RLM (recommended)	Sonnet	$0.74	9	~35	B
RLM (exhaustive)	Opus	$5.04	61	225	A
Baseline (single call)	Opus	$1.39	—	108	B+

The baseline crammed 48% of files into a single context window. Every deep finding that only the RLM discovered existed in files the baseline couldn't see. On larger codebases, baseline coverage drops below 20% — the RLM scales regardless of size.

Configuration

Model Selection

Default configuration uses Claude Sonnet 4.6 as root orchestrator and MiniMax M2.5 as sub-LLM workers. Override via CLI flags:

# Use Opus for maximum quality (more expensive)
deeprepo init . --root-model claude-opus-4-6

# Adjust max REPL turns (default: 20)
deeprepo init . --max-turns 30

Teams

Named agent compositions let you define reusable analysis configurations — which root model, which workers, what analysis focus, what output format. Create a team once, invoke it by name.

Cost Estimates

Codebase Size	Estimate	Estimated Time
Small (<50 files)	$0.20–0.50	1–3 min
Medium (50–300 files)	$0.50–1.50	3–8 min
Large (300+ files)	$1.00–3.00	5–15 min

Sub-LLM costs are negligible regardless of codebase size.

Built On

• Recursive Language Models (MIT, 2025) — the RLM pattern
• Prime Intellect RLM Extensions — parallel dispatch, answer variable pattern
• MiniMax M2.5 — sub-LLM worker model
• Anthropic Claude — root orchestrator model

Contributing

DeepRepo is open source under the MIT license. Issues and PRs welcome.

git clone https://github.com/Leonwenhao/deeprepo.git
cd deeprepo
pip install -e ".[dev]"
pytest

License

MIT