One file per folder
Every source file embedded verbatim in fenced code blocks. Large subtrees split into parts. No more dragging files in one by one.
IngestMD: Turn any codebase into clean, AI-ready Markdown.
234,610files scanned
5,851bundles
~23sto finish
100%offline
The annoying part
NotebookLM gives you a limited number of sources. Uploading a repo file-by-file wastes all of them.
Feeding a project to an AI tool means flattening the tree, skipping binaries and dependencies, watching for leaked keys, and staying under a token budget. IngestMD does all of that in one click, so a whole folder becomes a handful of clean files you can drop straight in.
What it does
Everything you'd otherwise do by hand
Secrets redacted
API keys, tokens, and private keys are scrubbed before anything is written, so you never paste a credential into a chat.
Skips the junk
Binaries, node_modules, build output, and anything in your .gitignore stay out. Add your own exclude patterns too.
Token counts
Every bundle shows an approximate token count, so you know the context cost before you load it into a model.
100% local
No uploads, no account, no telemetry, no API key. Everything runs on your machine, offline.
MCP server included
Expose any local repo to MCP-capable AI clients as live context, with the same scanning and redaction as the app.
Ask your codebase
Point IngestMD at your own local LLM server (Ollama or LM Studio) and ask questions about a repo. It builds a token-budgeted context and answers on your machine, no cloud, no API key.
Task-scoped context ✦
Describe a task and IngestMD assembles exactly the files you need: semantically ranked, dependency-expanded, packed to a token budget, with a signatures-only skeleton fallback. Plus a quality score and a "why each file was included" manifest.
Review your changes ✦
Turn your current git changes into a review-ready bundle: changed files, their tests, and their dependents, behind an AI review prompt. Diff against your working tree or any base branch.
Discover areas ✦
IngestMD clusters a repo into its real subsystems by imports and shared terms, then writes one titled, budget-packed bundle per area. Focused context instead of a flat dump.
Curate a Collection
Build a cart of bundles, areas, answers, and task or review contexts, then export a tidy set of Markdown with an index. Save collections by name to reuse, or serve them to AI clients over MCP.
Ingest documents & Confluence ✦
Turn PDFs, Word docs, and spreadsheets into clean Markdown. XLSX sheets become tables, DOCX keeps its headings, secrets are redacted like code. Pull Confluence Cloud pages, spaces, or CQL queries straight into Markdown too.
Find exactly the files ✦
Search your repo by name, extension, glob, language, size, or content (literal, regex, or semantic), then add the matches straight to a collection. Stop dumping whole folders, and hand the AI precisely the files that matter.
A real desktop app
Built with Tauri + Rust. Fast, native, tiny.
Every screen, shot on a real repository.
How it works
Four steps, about ten seconds
- 01
Pick a folder
Choose a source project, and optionally a separate output folder.
- 02
Tune (optional)
Toggle redaction and .gitignore, set grouping, add exclude globs.
- 03
Bundle
One click. IngestMD scans once and writes clean Markdown.
- 04
Drop into your AI tool
Load the .md files into NotebookLM, ChatGPT, or Claude.
For AI clients
An MCP server, built in
IngestMD ships an MCP server over stdio. The
bundle tool is free; Pro adds task_context, diff_context,
discover_areas, and saved collection tools. Point a client like Claude
Desktop at it and load any local repo as live, task-scoped context, with the same scanning and secret
redaction as the app.
{
"mcpServers": {
"ingestmd": {
"command": "/path/to/ingestmd-mcp"
}
}
}Pricing
Start free. Upgrade when context gets serious.
The free bundler is fully featured and stays that way: safety is never paywalled. Pro unlocks intelligent, task-scoped context. Every download starts with a 3-day full Pro trial, no account and no card. Local-first: unlock later with a license key.
Free
$0 forever
The deterministic bundler, trustworthy on its own.
- Bundle any repo to clean Markdown
- Secret redaction + binary safety (never paywalled)
- .gitignore respect · token counts
- MCP bundle tool
- Curate & export a Collection
Pro
$9 /mo · or $99 lifetime
Intelligent task context: the right files for the job.
- Everything in Free
- Task-scoped context: rank → budget → skeleton
- Diff review bundles from your git changes
- Area discovery + Ask your codebase
- Context quality score + recipes
- Policy & safety profiles, saved collections
- Salesforce mode
Team
$19 /user/mo
Governed context: consistent, reproducible, audited.
- Everything in Pro
- Shared profiles, recipes & policies
- Approved, team-safe context packs
- CI generation of context bundles
- Audit log of what was sent to AI
- Admin / MCP / repository policy controls
Prices shown are introductory and may change. Every tier runs entirely on your machine.
Get it
Download IngestMD
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