repoprompt-ce

Carries strong trust indicators from repository metadata

• Context engineering: Build dense, reviewable prompts with the files and repository details an AI model actually needs.
• Codebase orientation: Combine file trees, selected file contents, line slices, CodeMaps, and Git diffs.
• Context Builder: Let an agent explore the repository, identify relevant files, and curate context within a token budget.
• Agent orchestration: Run and coordinate CLI-backed coding agents from the native macOS app. See docs/worktrees.md for app-managed worktrees and .worktreeinclude local file copying.
• MCP server and CLI integration: Connect external MCP-compatible tools and CLI agents to RepoPrompt CE's repository context and agent harness.
• Multi-root workspaces: Work across related repositories, packages, and documentation folders in one workspace.
• Reviewable handoffs: Inspect and refine selected context before sending it to another model or agent.

RepoPrompt CE is the free, open-source community edition of RepoPrompt. It is a native macOS workspace for context engineering, agent orchestration, and local development.

Maintainers track release signing, Sparkle metadata, dependency pins, and third-party notices in docs/open-source-readiness.md.

SIGN_IDENTITY="Apple Development: Your Name (TEAMID)" ./conductor app relaunch

For a stable locally signed app under /Applications, use the local production installer below. Its self-signed identity is separate from the debug launcher's Apple Development signing path.

Note: If you use the debug app to modify RepoPrompt CE itself, validation flows that launch the app or run live smoke checks may rebuild and relaunch it. Expect the debug app to restart while those checks run.

Install a local production build

For a release-mode app under /Applications, install Python 3 and double-click Install RepoPrompt CE Local Production.command in Finder. The Finder launcher uses the coordinated developer daemon.

The installer builds RepoPrompt CE from source and replaces any existing /Applications/RepoPrompt CE.app using a dedicated self-signed certificate trusted only on your Mac. macOS may ask you to approve the certificate.

The resulting app is local-only. It is not notarized and should not be copied to another Mac or redistributed.

Source-build requirements

• macOS 26 or later
• Xcode 26, or matching Command Line Tools with the macOS 26 SDK

Develop in Xcode

Generate and open the disposable contributor workspace with:

make xcode

In Xcode 26.3, use RepoPrompt CE App for the packaged debug app, RepoPrompt CE MCP for the coordinated MCP executable, and RepoPrompt CE Tests for tests. The test scheme delegates to conductor because RepoPromptMCP is an executable-only SwiftPM target. Xcode also exposes the native RepoPrompt and repoprompt-mcp product schemes.

See docs/architecture/xcode-workspace.md for generation, validation, cleanup, and workflow boundaries. Release packaging is unchanged and does not use the generated workspace.