aicodeprep-gui: The fast context maker

Context Engineering basically.. but made effortless! prepare and share project code with any AI model, on any OS, from any editor.

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Manually copying and pasting files into AI chatbots is slow, error-prone, and kills your workflow. aicodeprep-gui solves this with a sleek, powerful, and blazing-fast desktop application that makes preparing code context a one-click process.

It is platform-independent (Windows, macOS, Linux) and IDE-independent. Use it alongside VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, or any other editor. It doesn't replace your agentic workflow; it works along side it, user-curated context every time.

AI models get 'dumbed down' the more irrelevant text that gets sent with your prompt - like when you are trying to fix a bug, agents (like Cursor, Cline, etc) will send huge giant pages of text about MCP servers, how to edit files etc all of that is not related to your bug. When you use the web chat interfaces, it is clean without any tools, no MCP stuff etc and it can 100% focus on your task.

This tool allows you to go from project ---> web chat very fast. It is designed to remove that friction. All the features are to save time and save you from having to do repetitive things.

The aicodeprep-gui Workflow

The core philosophy is simple: You know your code best. Instead of letting a "dumber" IDE agent guess which files are relevant, aicodeprep-gui puts you in control with a smart, intuitive UI.

1. 1. Launch Instantly:

• Right-click any folder in your File Explorer, Finder, or Nautilus and select "Open with aicodeprep-gui".
• _or_ Pop open a terminal and type aicp and press Enter.

1. 1. Review Smart Selection: The app opens instantly, having already pre-selected the most relevant files based on a .gitignore-style configuration.

1. 1. Fine-tune & Prompt: Quickly check/uncheck files, use powerful prompt presets (like one for Cline), or write a custom question.

1. 1. Generate & Iterate: Click "GENERATE CONTEXT!". The entire code bundle and your prompt are instantly copied to your clipboard, ready to be pasted into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Openrouter, or any other AI model. The app remains open, allowing you to make adjustments and regenerate as needed.

1. 1. Smarter AI responses and abilities: Whenever you rely on IDE extensions or agentic IDEs to do everything, they feed too much crap into the AI which always seems to reduce its intelligence. You end up needing to use Claude for everything even minor bugs, which gets expensive. With this tool, you can use the web chat interfaces for the hard/difficult stuff, bug fixing, planning, and then paste the result back into the agent set to use a cheap unlimited model, to make the actual file changes.

✨ Key Features

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