A simple Visual Studio Code extension that adds a command to the file explorer context menu to copy the entire content of a file, prepending a comment with the file's relative path.
This is useful for quickly sharing code snippets or file contents while retaining context about where the code came from within a project.
I mainly use for snipping code for sending in LLM chats.
Features
Adds Copy Content with Path Comment commands to the Explorer context menu for both files and folders.
Copies the full content of each selected file to the clipboard.
Automatically prepends a comment line // path: path/to/your/file.ext to every copied block, using the path relative to the workspace root.
Works with Explorer multi-selection so you can pick several files or folders at once. Duplicate files are ignored automatically.
Usage
Make sure the extension is installed and enabled in VS Code.
Open a project or folder in VS Code.
Navigate to the Explorer view (the file tree sidebar).
Right-click on the file whose content you want to copy.
Select "Copy Content with Path Comment" from the context menu.
The file's content, prefixed with the path comment, is now on your clipboard.
Paste the content wherever you need it (e.g., another file, a document, a chat message).
Multi-select
You can select multiple files or folders in the Explorer (hold Ctrl/Cmd or Shift) and run the same commands from the context menu.
When copying multiple files, each file's contents are copied sequentially, prefixed with its path header. Selecting multiple folders aggregates all non-ignored files from each folder (duplicates are removed), and mixed selections automatically skip items that don't match the command (e.g. folders in the file command).
