pylumen 0.2

Lumen: Intelligently prepares your codebase context for any LLM, solving context window limits with smart retrieval and providing deep project understanding.

💡 Lumen - Supercharge Your AI with Perfect Code Context

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Unlock Your AI's Full Potential with Flawless Code Understanding.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing software development. But their power is capped by one crucial factor: context. Feeding your AI the right information about your codebase is tedious, error-prone, and often impossible for large projects due to context window limitations.

Lumen is here to change that.

Lumen is your intelligent CLI companion that automatically scans, structures, and formats your entire codebase into a perfectly crafted prompt for any LLM. Stop wrestling with manual copy-pasting and context limits. With Lumen, you give your AI the deep, structured understanding it needs to deliver truly insightful and accurate results.

Elevate your AI interactions from frustrating to phenomenal. Power up with Lumen.

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Why Lumen?

• 🚀 - Effortless Context Generation: Automatically gathers and structures your entire project, no more manual drudgery.
• 🧠 - Smart File Handling: Intelligently reads various file types (including .ipynb notebooks) with automatic encoding detection.
• ⚙️ - Optimized for AI: Delivers a standardized, AI-friendly output format, including consistent file separators and an introductory message, ensuring maximum LLM comprehension.
• 🌐 - GitHub Repo Analysis: Seamlessly analyze public GitHub repositories with a single command. Lumen handles the cloning and cleanup.
• 🛡️ - 100% Private & Secure: Processes everything locally. Your code never leaves your machine during context generation for local projects.
• 📊 - Token Insights (New !): Use the -l or --leaderboard option to identify the most token-heavy files in your project (top 20 by default), helping you optimize large contexts.
• ✅ - Reliable & Tested: Backed by a comprehensive test suite.

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Prerequisites

Before installing Lumen, ensure you have the following installed and correctly configured on your system. Lumen is a Python tool and relies on standard development environments.

1. Python (3.7 or higher):

   • How to Check: Open your terminal or command prompt and type python --version or python3 --version.
   • Installation & Environment Setup:
     • Windows: Download the installer from python.org. Crucially, during installation, ensure you check the box that says "Add Python to PATH".
     • macOS: Python 3 is often pre-installed or easily available via Homebrew (brew install python).
     • Linux (Debian/Ubuntu): sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3 python3-pip
     • Linux (Fedora/CentOS/RHEL): sudo dnf install python3 python3-pip (or yum)
   • Pip: Python's package installer, usually installed with Python 3.7+.
     • How to Check: pip --version or pip3 --version.
     • Upgrade (Recommended): python -m pip install --upgrade pip.

2. Git: (Required only if you plan to use the GitHub repository feature (-g flag)).

   • How to Check: git --version.
   • Installation: Download from git-scm.com or use your system's package manager (e.g., brew install git, sudo apt install git).

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Installation

Install Lumen easily using pip:

pip install pylumen

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Quick Start & Usage

Lumen is a breeze to use from your command line (lum).

1. Generate Full Context (Clipboard): Navigate to your project's root and run: lum (The complete, structured prompt is copied to your clipboard.)

2. Analyze a Specific Path: lum /path/to/your/project

3. Save to File: lum -t my_project_context (Creates my_project_context.txt in the project's root.)

4. Analyze a Public GitHub Repository: (Requires Git installed!) lum -g https://github.com/user/repo-name

5. Identify Token-Heavy Files (New!): See the top 20 (default) most token-consuming files: lum -l Or specify a different number (e.g., top 10): lum -l 10 (This also generates and copies/saves the full context as per other commands.)

6. Manage Configuration:

• Edit your settings: lum -c (Opens ~/.lum/config.json in your default editor.)
• Reset to defaults: lum -r

For a full list of commands and options, Lumen features a clear and consistent help section: lum --help

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Configuration (~/.lum/config.json)

Tailor Lumen to your exact needs by editing its configuration file (~/.lum/config.json). Use lum -c to open it.

Key settings include:

• intro_text: Customize the introductory message for your prompts.
• title_text: Define the format for file titles (e.g., --- FILE : {file} ---).
• skipped_folders: A comprehensive list of folder names to ignore (e.g., .git, node_modules, venv).
• skipped_files: A list of specific file names to exclude from context (e.g., package-lock.json, .DS_Store).
• allowed_file_types: Specify which file extensions Lumen should process.

Automatic Updates: Lumen's configuration is designed to be future-proof. If new configuration options are added in an update, your config.json will be intelligently updated to include them, typically preserving your existing customizations. You can always reset to the latest defaults with lum -r.

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What's Next? The Lumen Roadmap

Lumen is actively evolving! Here's a glimpse of exciting features planned:

• Streamlined Configuration: Optimizing the config.json structure for conciseness and easier management.
• Enhanced Core Logic: Refactoring configuration loading and internal data handling for greater efficiency and robustness.
• Lumen as a Library: Making core utilities like chunk_read, read_ipynb, and detect_encoding easily importable for your Python projects.
• Smarter Token Reduction:
  • Option to exclude comments from the generated context.
  • Option to minimize excessive whitespace.
• IDE Integration: A VS Code extension for "Lumen: Copy Context" right from your editor.
• Advanced Code Understanding: Exploring Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) integration for a more semantic, potentially even lower-token, representation of your code.

Stay tuned for these and more improvements!

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Love Lumen? Give us a Star!

If Lumen helps you supercharge your AI workflows, please consider starring the project on GitHub! It's a great way to show your support and helps others discover Lumen.

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Contributing

We welcome contributions, issues, and feature requests! Check out the issues page or submit a pull request. See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details. Let's make Lumen even better, together!

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License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

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Author

Developed by Far3k

• GitHub: Far3000-YT
• Email: [e-mail]
• Discord: @far3000
• X (Twitter): @0xFar3000