# Cartographer

> Cartographer is an open-source CLI tool that generates structured maps of codebases to provide AI agents and LLMs with rich context about project architecture and file relationships.

Cartographer is an open-source command-line tool designed to help AI agents and large language models (LLMs) understand codebases by generating structured, hierarchical maps of project files and their relationships. It analyzes a repository's directory structure and produces concise, context-rich summaries that can be fed directly into AI coding assistants or agentic workflows. By providing a high-level "map" of a codebase, Cartographer reduces the token overhead of passing entire file trees to LLMs while preserving the architectural context needed for intelligent code navigation and generation.

- **Codebase Mapping**: *Automatically traverses a project directory and generates a structured map of files, folders, and their relationships, giving AI agents a clear architectural overview.*
- **LLM Context Optimization**: *Produces compact, token-efficient representations of codebases so AI models can reason about large projects without exceeding context windows.*
- **AI Agent Integration**: *Designed to plug directly into agentic pipelines, providing agents with the context they need to navigate, edit, and understand code autonomously.*
- **Open Source**: *Fully open-source under a permissive license, allowing developers to inspect, modify, and extend the tool for their own workflows.*
- **CLI Interface**: *Simple command-line interface makes it easy to run Cartographer on any project directory and pipe output to other tools or AI systems.*
- **Configurable Output**: *Supports customization of output format and depth, letting users tailor the generated map to their specific use case or model requirements.*

To get started, clone the repository from GitHub and run the CLI against your project directory. The output can be passed directly to an LLM or AI agent as part of a system prompt or context injection step.

## Features
- Codebase directory mapping
- LLM context generation
- AI agent integration
- Token-efficient output
- CLI interface
- Configurable output depth
- Open-source

## Integrations
LLMs, AI coding assistants, Agentic pipelines

## Platforms
WEB, API, CLI

## Pricing
Open Source

## Links
- Website: https://github.com/kingbootoshi/cartographer
- Documentation: https://github.com/kingbootoshi/cartographer#readme
- Repository: https://github.com/kingbootoshi/cartographer
- EveryDev.ai: https://www.everydev.ai/tools/cartographer