Concatenate a directory full of files into a single prompt for use with LLMs

For background on this project see Building files-to-prompt entirely using Claude 3 Opus.

Install this tool using pip:

pip install files-to-prompt

To use files-to-prompt, provide the path to one or more files or directories you want to process:

files-to-prompt path/to/file_or_directory [path/to/another/file_or_directory ...]

This will output the contents of every file, with each file preceded by its relative path and separated by ---.

• --include-hidden: Include files and folders starting with . (hidden files and directories).

  files-to-prompt path/to/directory --include-hidden

• --ignore-gitignore: Ignore .gitignore files and include all files.

  files-to-prompt path/to/directory --ignore-gitignore

• --ignore <pattern>: Specify one or more patterns to ignore. Can be used multiple times.

  files-to-prompt path/to/directory --ignore "*.log" --ignore "temp*"

Suppose you have a directory structure like this:

my_directory/
├── file1.txt
├── file2.txt
├── .hidden_file.txt
├── temp.log
└── subdirectory/
    └── file3.txt

Running files-to-prompt my_directory will output:

my_directory/file1.txt
---
Contents of file1.txt
---
my_directory/file2.txt
---
Contents of file2.txt
---
my_directory/subdirectory/file3.txt
---
Contents of file3.txt
---

If you run files-to-prompt my_directory --include-hidden, the output will also include .hidden_file.txt:

my_directory/.hidden_file.txt
---
Contents of .hidden_file.txt
---
...

If you run files-to-prompt my_directory --ignore "*.log", the output will exclude temp.log:

my_directory/file1.txt
---
Contents of file1.txt
---
my_directory/file2.txt
---
Contents of file2.txt
---
my_directory/subdirectory/file3.txt
---
Contents of file3.txt
---

To contribute to this tool, first checkout the code. Then create a new virtual environment:

cd files-to-prompt
python -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate

Now install the dependencies and test dependencies:

pip install -e '.[test]'

To run the tests:

pytest