code2prompt mit Homebrew, Nix installieren

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Befehle und Aliase

• code2prompt

Projektgeschichte

The public GitHub repository was created on 2024-03-09, and the first tagged 1.0.0 release followed on 2024-03-16. The official README describes the project as a CLI for converting a codebase into a single LLM prompt, while later project materials frame it as a broader context-engineering tool with a Rust core library, CLI/TUI, Python SDK, and MCP server.

By the 2025 release line, the project had moved beyond a single command into a small tooling family around local code ingestion: respecting ignore rules, generating source trees, applying Handlebars templates, counting tokens, reading formats such as notebooks and CSV, and including git diffs or logs.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The official README documents Cargo, Homebrew, binary-release, and Python SDK installation paths, and the input package facts also list Homebrew and Nix packaging. That distribution pattern is typical for Rust CLIs that serve both terminal users and automation workflows.

The repository metadata gathered from GitHub showed several thousand stars and hundreds of forks by the enrichment date, which is notable for a project started in 2024 and consistent with the rapid spread of LLM-context utilities among developers.

Wie es verwendet wird

Typical use is running `code2prompt .` against a project directory, optionally writing to a file or clipboard, filtering paths, using a `.c2pconfig` TOML file, and selecting output formats or tokenizers. The official docs state that Code2Prompt looks for `.c2pconfig` in the current working directory and applies its rules automatically.

The project also targets agentic and programmatic usage: the README describes a Python SDK and local MCP server alongside the human-oriented CLI and TUI.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

Code2Prompt is a representative package from the post-2023 wave of small, fast CLIs built to bridge traditional repositories and LLM context windows. Package maintainers care about it because it sits at the intersection of Rust CLI distribution, language-model workflow automation, and cross-registry publishing through Cargo, Homebrew, Nix, PyPI bindings, and binary releases.

Its significance is less about a long legacy and more about crystallizing a new packaging pattern: a native CLI with a core library, optional SDK bindings, and editor or agent-adjacent surfaces.

Zeitleiste

• 2024-03-09: Public GitHub repository created.
• 2024-03-16: v1.0.0 release published.
• 2024: Homebrew and Cargo installation documented in the official README.
• 2025: v3 and v4 release lines published, reflecting continued active development.

Related projects

• Related tools include other repository-to-prompt utilities, code ingestion CLIs, and agent-context servers. Within the project itself, related components include `code2prompt-core`, the `code2prompt` CLI/TUI, the `code2prompt-rs` Python SDK, and the MCP server described in the official README.

Quellen

• https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt
• https://code2prompt.dev/docs/how_to/config/