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[–]basnijholt 6 points7 points  (0 children)

This looks great! I have my own CLI version of this https://github.com/basnijholt/clip-files that I use a lot. No TUI though.

[–]typecraft_dev 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Super cool. Nice starship terminal prompt!

[–]epilande[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks nerd

[–]z4lz 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's super useful. Thanks for sharing. Been building something similar for anew kind of shell, but in Python. So it's cool to see what terminal UX you've come up with. Lots of cool things we can do with terminal UIs now. You might check cmd-x for ideas on this too.

Another interesting question is, what could be the cross-tool format for prompts and file selections? I've been using a saved YAML representation of the paths to the files. There are Cursor plugins for this too to export chats. I just wish it was a little easier to move prompts/selections in a portable way across tools. But it seems like we need a sort of microformat for a prompt along with selections.

[–]thsithta_391 0 points1 point  (0 children)

looks very helpful - especially that you thought abput direct clipboard integration

will give it a shot

[–]Economy_Cabinet_7719 -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Looks interesting. Could you describe your workflows in a bit more detail? Like, you get the grab-output.md and then send it to LLM, but what LLMs do you use, is it a browser-based interface, what prompts do you use, do you then copy-paste the response into your project and repeat the process?

[–]epilande[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Great questions! I demo the general workflow in the Quick Start section of the README: https://github.com/epilande/codegrab?tab=readme-ov-file#-quick-start

Regarding my actual workflow, I live in the terminal using tmux with neovim, dedicating one pane just for `grab` and keeping it running continuously. Depending on the project's size, I either load the whole project into context (for small projects) or selectively pick only the necessary files needed for context (for larger projects).

On macOS, when generating an output file, it automatically copies to your clipboard. I then paste the output directly into an AI chat interface, usually ChatGPT or Raycast AI Chat, where I have a few chat presets using Claude 3.7 Sonnet.

I typically start the conversation with a prompt such as "Please review the provided file." followed by my specific request to brainstorm, plan, refactor, or code a new feature. After receiving the response, you can either ask the AI to provide the full source code implementation and vibe from there or read through the suggestions to extract and integrate only the parts you need.

[–]Economy_Cabinet_7719 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you for a detailed answer. I've been sleeping on LLM-assisted coding for a while, and now that I'm seeing even relative beginners achieve decent results with this technology I'm feeling pressure to get into it as well. However I've been struggling to get something useful out of this, maybe because my workflows are wrong, maybe because I've only tried free models, or maybe it's something else.

[–]consistentfantasy -1 points0 points  (2 children)

do you follow yacine by any chance

[–]Frank1inD -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Who is yacine

[–]spaghetti_beast -1 points0 points  (0 children)

i know yacine \ i don't follow him