# 使用 Homebrew, Nix 安装 code2prompt

查看 code2prompt 的安装路径、可执行文件、元数据以及面向 AI 代理工作流的安全说明。

## 安装

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

其他安装命令:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install code2prompt
```

  证据: local Homebrew formula metadata

### Linux

- Nix (92%):

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

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

## 软件包事实

- **软件包键:** brew:code2prompt
- **软件包管理器:** Homebrew
- **软件包管理器页面:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/code2prompt>
- **版本:** 4.2.0
- **来源摘要:** CLI tool to convert your codebase into a single LLM prompt
- **主页:** <https://code2prompt.dev/>
- **仓库:** <https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt>
- **上游文档:** <https://code2prompt.dev/docs/how_to/cli>
- **许可证:** MIT
- **源码归档:** <https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt/archive/refs/tags/v4.2.0.tar.gz>
- **最后更新:** 2026-06-22T14:03:03-07:00
- **已生成:** 2026-07-08T07:18:31+00:00

## 可执行文件

- code2prompt (cli)
- code2prompt (别名)

## 依赖

- openssl@3

## 构建依赖

- pkgconf
- rust

## 安装行为

- post-install 钩子: 未定义
- Bottle: 可用 于 arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## 版本和新鲜度

- 页面生成时间: 2026-07-08
- 管理器版本: 4.2.0
- 管理器更新时间: 2026-06-22
- 本地数据: OK
- 上游仓库: https://github.com/mufeedvh/code2prompt
- 检测到的最新版本: v4.2.0 (当前)
## 项目历史与用法

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.

### 项目历史

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.

### 采用历史

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.

### 使用方式

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.

### 为什么软件包爱好者会关心

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.

### 时间线

- 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.

### 来源

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


## 安全说明

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

- **Geiger 风险:** 绿色 / 低
- 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
## 源数据库详情

- **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

## 其他软件包管理器记录

- 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


## 相关链接

- [MCP tool packages](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/mcp-tools/) - Mentions MCP or Model Context Protocol.
- [Terminal utility packages](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/terminal-utilities/) - Matched terminal and command-line workflow metadata.
- [Text processing packages](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/text-processing-tools/) - Matched text, document, or structured-data processing metadata.
- [Developer build packages](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/developer-build-tools/) - Matched build, compiler, generator, or developer workflow metadata.
- [openssl@3](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/openssl-3/) - Runtime dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [pkgconf](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/pkgconf/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [rust](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/rust/) - Build dependency declared by Homebrew.
- [context7-mcp](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/context7-mcp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, llm, mcp.
- [mcphost](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/mcphost/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, llm, mcp.
- [oterm](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/oterm/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, llm, mcp.
- [airtable-mcp-server](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/airtable-mcp-server/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
- [cai](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/cai/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, llm.
- [chrome-devtools-mcp](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/chrome-devtools-mcp/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
- [claude-code-templates](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/claude-code-templates/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
- [codanna](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/codanna/) - Shares av.db curated category or tags: cli, developer-tools, mcp.
- [yek](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/pkg/brew/yek/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, developer, developer-tools, generation, llm.
- [cargo-generate](https://www.automicvault.com/zh-hans/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)


## 来源

- 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
