Repomix/--compress

• Repomix Code Compression - repomix --compress

  • My Notes

    • Uses Tree-Sitter to "compress" code by reducing it to function signatures
    • potentially #Cool - though I can imagine how this might confuse an engineer that didn't understand the implication of how this feature would impact what the AI "understands" about the context from the generated repomix file.
    • Reminds me of a QodoAI demo I saw in a webinar where they discussed a similar Embedding Chunking strategy. Theirs was bit more intelligent, I think, and could create a chunk for each class's method which was a tiny, compressed version of the class with attributes and referenced function signatures with commented out method bodies. I think they used multi-layered chunking to ensure AI could get the "gist" of the code when a single chunk was returned from a Vector DB
  • uses Tree-Sitter to perform a form of code compression that transforms this
    • typescript

      const calculateTotal = (items: ShoppingItem[]) => {
        let total = 0;
        for (const item of items) {
          total += item.price * item.quantity;
        }
        return total;
      }
      interface Item {
        name: string;
        price: number;
        quantity: number;
      }

  • into this
    • typescript

      const calculateTotal = (items: ShoppingItem[]) => {
      interface Item {