Show HN: Code2prompt – Generate LLM prompts from your codebase

[mufeedvh]

I made code2prompt, a CLI tool to generate LLM prompts from your codebase with support for prompt templating and token counting.

I initially wrote this for personal use to utilize Claude 3.0's 200K context window and it has proven to be pretty useful so I decided to open-source it. Let me know what you think.

[myyke]

I don't get it; what is this for? What is the use case?

[mufeedvh]

For small codebases, you can run this tool on the entire directory and it would generate a well-formatted Markdown prompt detailing the source tree structure, and all the code. You can then upload this document to either GPT or Claude models with higher context windows and ask it to:

- Rewrite the code to another language.

- Find bugs/security vulnerabilities.

- Document the code.

- Implement new features.

You can customize the prompt template to achieve any of the desired use cases. It essentially traverses a codebase and creates a prompt with all source files combined. In short, it automates copy-pasting multiple source files into your prompt and formatting them along with letting you know how many tokens your code consumes.