Claude has been a pretty decent sidekick to pair program with these past few months.

Using Repomix with Claude has definitely made Claude more useful for software dev tasks. Repomix bundles up all the code in a given directory structure into an xml file. I use this packaged code to provide context to the LLM I’m working with.

Instead of manually baking repomix into each of my projects’ flake configurations, I created a fish alias that:

• uses nix shell to install repomix via nodejs npx into a temporary environment
• runs Repomix to stdout and copies the contents to the system clipboard

nix onliner:

nix-shell -p nodejs --run 'npx repomix --stdout --copy'

No doubt, there are limits to how useful this can be for larger codebases. (primarily around security and utility) I’m still also experimenting with Claude Code and the like, but I prefer not to run these tools directly in my primary development environment. I sandbox them in NixOS generated VMs with the code I want exposed. This overhead translates to Repomix still having a place in my toolbox for the time being.