ai-distiller: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

ai-distiller CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from janreges/ai-distiller. It costs 9,205 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A CLAUDE.md instruction file for AI Distiller, a command-line tool that reduces large codebases to the structure an AI can read more easily. It documents the tool's goals, supported output formats, and command examples.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the CLI, its language support, output formats, or options for removing selected code details.
Why use it?
It gives Claude project-specific context for developing and using the code-distilling command.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md.

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CLAUDE.md · 1,021 lines

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AI Distiller - Claude Development Instructions

Project Overview

AI Distiller is a high-performance CLI tool that extracts essential code structure from large codebases, making them digestible for LLMs by removing unnecessary details while preserving semantic information. Think of it as "code compression for AI context windows."

Key Project Goals

  1. Single native binary - No runtime dependencies, works everywhere
  2. Blazingly fast - Process 10MB codebase in <2 seconds
  3. Multi-language support - 15+ languages via tree-sitter WASM
  4. Flexible output - Text, Markdown, JSON, JSONL, XML formats
  5. Granular control - Strip exactly what you don't need

CLI Interface Specification

The main CLI is aid (AI Distiller):

aid [path] [flags]

# Examples:
aid                                    # Process current directory
aid src/                              # Process src directory
aid main.py                           # Process single file
aid --comments=0,implementation   # Remove comments and implementations
aid --format json-structured --output api.json   # JSON output to file
aid --private=0 --protected=0 --internal=0 --stdout       # Print only public members to stdout

# Special git mode (activated when path is .git):
aid .git                              # Show full git history
aid .git --git-limit=50              # Show last 50 commits
aid .git --with-analysis-prompt      # Include AI analysis prompt for insights

# AI-powered analysis modes:
aid --ai-action=flow-for-deep-file-to-file-analysis     # Generate comprehensive task list
aid --ai-action=flow-for-multi-file-docs                # Generate documentation workflow
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-refactoring-suggestion       # Generate refactoring analysis prompt
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-complex-codebase-analysis    # Full codebase analysis with diagrams
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-security-analysis            # Security-focused analysis prompt
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-performance-analysis         # Performance optimization analysis
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-best-practices-analysis      # Best practices and code quality analysis
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-bug-hunting                  # Systematic bug hunting analysis
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-single-file-docs             # Single file documentation analysis
aid --ai-action=prompt-for-diagrams                     # Generate 10 beneficial Mermaid diagrams

# Legacy mode (deprecated):
aid --ai-analysis-task-list                    # Use --ai-action=flow-for-deep-file-to-file-analysis instead

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ai-distiller CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository janreges/ai-distiller (167 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9,205 tokens to every session, about $0.0460 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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