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Re:Dewdrops – Turn your Git repo into a single Markdown file... by medunes on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:43PM (#47039333)
I wrote a small CLI tool in Go called Dewdrops to help with "context stuffing" (feeding codebases to Claude/GPT).

The Problem: Copy-pasting files manually is slow, and most existing scripts don't handle .gitignore logic correctly or include binary files that waste tokens.

The Solution: Dewdrops walks your directory tree, strictly respects your .gitignore rules (using git index logic), skips binaries/images, and outputs a formatted Markdown file.

Key Features:

Tree-First: Prints a tree structure at the top so the LLM understands architecture before reading code.

Go-based: Compiles to a single static binary (no npm/pip deps).

Air-Gap Ready: Runs entirely locally.

It’s open source (MIT). I’d love to hear your feedback on the traversal logic or formatting.

Re:Dewdrops – Turn your Git repo into a single Markdown file... by verdverm on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:50PM (#47039403)
1. Search is better than summaries

2. Don't automate AGENTS.md creation to someone else.

Re:Dewdrops – Turn your Git repo into a single Markdown file... by medunes on Monday February 16, 2026 @02:54PM (#47039462)
more insghts please? would be thankful
Re:Dewdrops – Turn your Git repo into a single Markdown file... by verdverm on Monday February 16, 2026 @03:08PM (#47039642)
I'm not going to do that in HN comments, get on Bluesky and join the conversations there
Re:Dewdrops – Turn your Git repo into a single Markdown file... by medunes on Monday February 16, 2026 @06:16PM (#47041640)
I agree that for fully autonomous agents (or IDE extensions), tool-use/search is the superior architecture. dewdrops is specifically targeting the "Chat UI" workflow, where a developer just wants to drag/drop a feature branch into Claude/GPT/Gemini to ask a quick question without setting up a local RAG pipeline. It's a "dumb tool" for a specific constraint.

it also doesn't touch or generate AGENTS.md. It just respects .gitignore and dumps the raw source.