You know the feeling.
Someone drops a GitHub link in Discord. Or you find a repo on HN. Or your team says "hey, we're migrating to this library."
You open it. Stars look good. But then:
- README is either missing or 3 years old
- 47 top-level files staring at you
- No idea where the actual logic lives
- You clone it. Browse it. Still confused 10 minutes later.
This happened to me constantly. And every time I tried to give a repo to Claude Code or Cursor as context, I'd end up dumping random files and hoping for the best.
So I built something to fix it.
What I built: RepoContext
Paste any public GitHub URL. Takes about 3 seconds.
If you try it on a repo you know well, you'll immediately see whether the onboarding brief matches your mental model. That's always the most satisfying part.
It's open source
→ github.com/ajaycodesitbetter/RepoContext
Built with Next.js 14, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, deployed on Vercel.
PRs welcome. If you find a repo where the file ranking is wrong or the health signals look off, open an issue — I want to know.
Built this as a student developer. If it saves you 20 minutes on your next codebase evaluation, that's the whole point.
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