# Installer code2prompt avec Homebrew, Nix

Consultez les chemins d'installation, exécutables, métadonnées et notes de sécurité de code2prompt pour les workflows d'agents IA.

## installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:code2prompt
```

Commandes d'installation supplémentaires:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install code2prompt
```

  Preuve: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#code2prompt
```

  Preuve: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/code2prompt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

## Faits du paquet

- **Clé du paquet:** brew:code2prompt
- **Gestionnaire de paquets:** Homebrew
- **Page du gestionnaire de paquets:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/code2prompt>
- **Version:** 4.2.0
- **Résumé source:** CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt
- **Page d'accueil:** <https://code2prompt.dev/>
- **Dépôt:** <https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt>
- **Docs amont:** <https://code2prompt.dev/docs/how_to/cli>
- **Licence:** MIT
- **Archive source:** <https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt/archive/refs/tags/v4.2.0.tar.gz>
- **Dernière mise à jour:** 2026-06-22T14:03:03-07:00
- **Généré:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## exécutables

- code2prompt (cli)
- code2prompt (alias)

## Dépendances

- openssl@3

## Dépendances de compilation

- pkgconf
- rust

## Comportement d'installation

- hook post-installation: non défini
- Bouteille: disponible sur arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Version et fraîcheur

- page générée: 2026-07-08
- version du gestionnaire: 4.2.0
- gestionnaire mis à jour: 2026-06-22
- données locales: OK
- dépôt amont: https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt
- dernière version détectée: v4.2.0 (à jour)
## Historique du projet et usages

Code2Prompt is a Rust-based CLI and companion ecosystem for turning a source tree into structured context for large language models. Its niche is the practical developer workflow of packaging repository files, source trees, token counts, templates, and git context into one promptable artifact.

### Historique du projet

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.

### Historique d'adoption

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.

### Modes d'utilisation

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.

### Pourquoi les passionnés de paquets s'y intéressent

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.

### Chronologie

- 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.

### Sources

- <https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt>
- <https://code2prompt.dev/docs/how_to/config/>


## Notes de sécurité

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Risque Geiger:** vert / faible
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: .c2pconfig
## Détails de la base source

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** code2prompt
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Head Version:** HEAD
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** head, stable

## Autres enregistrements de gestionnaires de paquets

- Nix - code2prompt: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/co/code2prompt/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Liens liés

- [MCP tool packages](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/mcp-tools/) - Mentions MCP or Model Context Protocol.
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- [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [context7-mcp](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/context7-mcp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, llm, mcp.
- [mcphost](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/mcphost/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, llm, mcp.
- [oterm](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/oterm/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, llm, mcp.
- [airtable-mcp-server](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/airtable-mcp-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
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- [chrome-devtools-mcp](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/chrome-devtools-mcp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
- [claude-code-templates](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/claude-code-templates/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
- [codanna](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/codanna/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
- [yek](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/yek/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, generation, llm.
- [cargo-generate](https://www.automicvault.com/fr/pkg/brew/cargo-generate/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, code, developer, developer-tools, generation.

## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/code2prompt.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/code2prompt.yml)


## Sources

- Nucleus package database
- Geiger risk classifier
- package-page enrichment
- curated configuration and credential file locations
- curated package history
- package version freshness
- av.db category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
