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Screenshot of the contextzip CLI tool in action, showing usage examples and file exclusions.
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ContextZip: Tames Your Gigantic Codebases for AI

Your AI chatbot session begins. You open the project. You figure out which files are relevant. You remember to skip node_modules. And __pycache__. And .venv. And the lock files. You zip everything manually. You find the zip. You upload it. Then you type out what you were actually trying to do, context the AI had no way of knowing.

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