jh-prompt-gen 1.0.1

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

🤖 Generate Custom Prompts

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 package:

   pip install jh-prompt-gen
   

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⚙️ Configuration & Ignore

If a .jhpromptconfig or .jhclipignore file exists in the target directory, it will be automatically applied when running the tool. To specify a different config or ignore file, use the -c (--config-file) or -I (--ignore-file) options respectively.

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🔒 Privacy & Security

For security reasons, you can target only specific subdirectories; this prevents accidental exposure of root-level or sensitive files. Use ignore patterns in .jhclipignore to exclude sensitive files (e.g., credentials, logs, personal data) from being sent to the AI.

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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

💬 Generate Custom Prompt with project code to clipboard

Default prompt template: "default_prompt_pattern"

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

Named template from .jhpromptconfig

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

📋 Copy only code to clipboard

Default ignore rules

jh-copy-clipboard.py ./src

Custom ignore patterns and explicit ignore file

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