brokiecursor
brokiecursor is a one-click workflow to instantly generate a clean, ready-to-paste ChatGPT prompt containing your project structure and selected file contents, directly within VS Code.
Features
| Feature |
Description |
| 🖱 Right-click → Generate Prompt |
Select multiple files in VS Code's Explorer sidebar, right-click, and instantly generate a markdown-formatted prompt. |
| 📋 Auto-copy to Clipboard |
The prompt is automatically copied to your clipboard—just paste into ChatGPT. |
| 🗂 ASCII Project Tree |
A neatly formatted ASCII representation of your repository structure up to depth 2. |
🚫 Respects .gitignore |
Automatically excludes files and folders ignored by Git. |
| ⚡️ Command Palette Fallback |
Invoke via Command Palette (Cmd+Shift+P) to select files from a picker if none are selected in the Explorer. |
Tip: To select multiple non-contiguous files, hold Cmd (macOS) or Ctrl (Windows/Linux) while clicking files in the Explorer.
Above: Selecting multiple files → right-click → instant markdown prompt.
Note you must not have any folders selected when you use the Generate Prompt command - doing so will lead to error ISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
Extension Settings
This extension contributes the following optional settings (add to your settings.json if customization is needed):
| Setting |
Default |
Description |
brokiecursor.treeDepth |
3 |
Maximum folder depth displayed in the project tree. |
brokiecursor.copyToClipboard |
true |
Set to false to disable automatic clipboard copying. |
Development & Packaging
1 — Clone and install
In any directory - you can delete this repo once extension is installed.
git clone https://github.com/hegasz/brokiecursor.git
cd brokiecursor
npm install
2 — Compile
npm run compile
(optional) 3 — Run in Dev Mode
Press F5 inside VS Code to launch the Extension Development Host for testing.
4 — Build a .vsix
npx vsce package
5 — Install the extension locally
For VSCode:
code --install-extension brokiecursor-0.0.1.vsix
or for Cursor
cursor --install-extension brokiecursor-0.0.1.vsix
(note for both you need the code or cursor shell commands installed - "Shell Command: Install 'code/cursor' command")
6 - Delete this folder
Compatibility
brokiecursor targets VS Code ≥ 1.96.0 (Cursor 0.x and newer VS Code).
If you see a “not compatible” error, update VS Code or rebuild:
npm install --save-dev @types/vscode@1.96.0
# set "engines.vscode": "^1.96.0" in package.json
npm run compile && npx vsce package
code --install-extension brokiecursor‑0.0.1.vsix
