Interactively generate structured context files from your codebase, designed for LLM pair programming workflows.

Kind of inspired by fzf. I put 0 effort in, not responsible for anything.

⚠️ Alpha Status: This project is in early development, written mostly with Claude because I was lazy and needed this quickly. APIs and features may change significantly.

• Interactive file preview and selection with fuzzy search
• Fast and memory-efficient processing
• Multiple output formats (XML, JSON, YAML)
• Terminal UI with customizable themes (sort of works lol)

go install github.com/lc/pfzf@latest

# Basic usage (outputs to pfzf_*.xml by default)
pfzf

# Specify output format
pfzf -format json

# Use custom config file
pfzf -config ~/.config/pfzf/config.json

pfzf can be configured via a JSON configuration file located at $HOME/.pfzf/config.json

You can specify a custom config location using the -config flag:

Note: a lot of the keys are not implemented yet, but they are there for future use.

pfzf -config /path/to/config.json

{
  "scanner": {
    "ignorePatterns": [".git", "node_modules"],
    "maxFileSize": 1048576,
    "maxFiles": 1000
  },
  "processor": {
    "maxChunkSize": 4096,
    "chunkOverlap": 200,
    "maxTokens": 2000,
    "stripComments": false,
    "detectLanguage": true
  },
  "writer": {
    "outputPath": "",
    "format": "xml",
    "prettyPrint": true
  },
  "ui": {
    "previewWidth": 50,
    "theme": "default",
    "keyBindings": {
      "quit": "q",
      "select": "space",
      "toggle_preview": "p",
      "help": "?",
      "focus_search": "/",
      "clear_search": "esc"
    }
  }
}

• Space: Select/deselect file
• ↑/↓: Navigate files
• /: Focus search
• ESC: Clear search
• p: Toggle preview
• q: Quit
• ?: Show help

pfzf supports three output formats:

• XML (default)
• JSON
• YAML

Each format includes:

• Directory context (current working directory and tree structure)
• Selected file contents with metadata
• Language-specific processing results (when enabled)

This is an alpha release. While the core functionality is working, you may encounter:

• API changes
• Feature additions/removals
• Performance optimizations
• Bug fixes

Please report issues and feature requests via GitHub issues.

Contributions are welcome! Please read our contributing guidelines before submitting pull requests.

MIT License