PilePack

Pack your codebase into a single file for AI analysis
Combine all your project files into one text file — perfect for sending to LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Deepseek, etc.).

✨ Features

• 📁 Recursive scanning – walks through all files in a directory.
• 💾 Streaming output – minimal memory usage even on huge codebases.
• 🚫 Respects .gitignore – optionally disable with --no-gitignore.
• 🔗 Skips symlinks by default – opt in with --follow-symlinks.
• 🌳 Tree structure – displays project hierarchy.
• 📄 Embedded content – each file is shown with its path header.
• 🔐 Secrets masking – hides passwords, tokens, keys (--mask-secrets).
• 🖨️ Two output formats – plain text (txt) or Markdown (md).
• 💾 Save to file – use -o output.txt.

📦 Installation

pip install pilepack

From source:

git clone https://github.com/dartmew/pilepack.git
cd pilepack
pip install -e .

🚀 Usage

Basic command – pass a path to your project:

pilepack /path/to/your/project

Redirect output to a file:

pilepack . > report.txt

Example output (txt)

myproject
├── main.py
├── utils/
│   ├── helpers.py
│   └── __init__.py
└── README.md

================================================================================

--- FILE: main.py ---
import utils.helpers

def main():
    print("Hello")

--- FILE: utils/helpers.py ---
def greet(name):
    return f"Hi {name}"

Markdown format

pilepack . -f md -o report.md

Produces a Markdown file with syntax highlighting.

Show only structure (no file contents)

pilepack . --no-content

Mask secrets

pilepack . --mask-secrets

Replaces values of password=, api_key=, token=, and long strings (base64/hex) with ***.

Disable .gitignore

pilepack . --no-gitignore

Follow symbolic links explicitly

pilepack . --follow-symlinks

📋 CLI Options

🧪 Testing

Install test dependencies and run:

pip install -e .[test]
pytest

With coverage:

pytest --cov=pilepack

Current coverage: 84% (20 tests, all passing).

Name                    Stmts   Miss  Cover
-------------------------------------------
pilepack\__init__.py        0      0   100%
pilepack\__main__.py        3      3     0%
pilepack\cli.py            53      5    91%
pilepack\collector.py      32      2    94%
pilepack\formatter.py      39      2    95%
pilepack\ignorer.py        21      3    86%
pilepack\reader.py         31     12    61%
-------------------------------------------
TOTAL                     179     27    85%

📄 License

MIT © 2026 Vasili S. Pribylov

🤝 Contributing

Issues and pull requests are welcome! For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss.

💬 Support

Feel free to open an issue for bugs, questions, or suggestions. I'll try to respond within a few days.

This project is actively maintained (as of 2026).

🙏 Acknowledgements

Inspired by the need to easily feed code into large language models.