jh-prompt-gen 0.1.0

A CLI tool to capture code and automatically generate ChatGPT prompts for your projects.

📦 Prompt Generator Toolkit

A small toolkit to collect code from local directories and automatically generate ChatGPT prompts.

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📋 Contents

• copy-jh-clipboard.py
  Copies files or entire directories (recursive) to the clipboard or stdout, with banner headers and indentation.

• gen-jh-prompt.py
  Reads the clipboard output and builds a ChatGPT prompt based on templates defined in .jhpromptconfig.

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🛠️ Installation

1. Ensure you have Python 3.7 or higher.
2. Install dependency:

   pip install pyperclip
   

3. Make scripts executable:

   chmod +x copy-jh-clipboard.py gen-jh-prompt.py
   

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Example .jhclipignore

.jh*
.DS_Store
.git/
frontend/node_modules/
frontend/dist/
frontend/package-lock.json
frontend/public/rootCA.pem

How .jhclipignore works

• Follows Git’s ignore semantics (glob patterns).
• Lines without a trailing slash match files anywhere (.DS_Store matches any file named .DS_Store).
• Patterns ending with / only match directories and their contents (.git/ excludes the .git folder).
• Wildcards (*) match zero or more characters (.jh* matches .jhclipignore, .jhpromptconfig, etc.).

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Example .jhpromptconfig

persona="You are a React developer."
project="My Project"

sophisticated_prompt="""
{persona}. Optimize my {project}. Please make it even better using advanced patterns.

My code:
{code}

New Feature: {feature}
"""

default_prompt_pattern="""
{persona}. Optimize my {project}.

My code:
{code}

New Feature: {feature}
"""

How .jhpromptconfig works

• Single-line entries: KEY=value sets simple variables (e.g. persona, project).
• Multi-line templates: KEY="""...""" allows you to define named prompt templates containing {placeholders}.
• Default template: the default_prompt_pattern key is used when you don’t specify a template name.
• Named templates: any other key (e.g. sophisticated_prompt) can be selected via the --pattern option in gen-jh-prompt.py.
• Placeholders: {code} inserts captured code, {feature} inserts your feature description, and you can add any custom placeholders and override them with -f KEY=VALUE.

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🚀 Usage Examples

1. Copy code using default ignore rules

copy-jh-clipboard.py ./src

2. Copy code with custom ignore patterns and explicit ignore file

copy-jh-clipboard.py ./src -i '*.pyc' -i 'node_modules/' -I .jhclipignore

3. Generate a prompt using the default template

gen-jh-prompt.py ./src "Add authentication"

4. Generate a prompt using a named template from .jhpromptconfig

gen-jh-prompt.py ./src "Add authentication" -p sophisticated_prompt