🐥 A quick way to get an LLM-friendly view of any GitHub repo

When working with large language models, navigating GitHub repositories in their raw form can be a challenge. Cloning the repo or browsing file by file isn't optimal for context-based reasoning or summarization.

Here’s a small but powerful trick that turns any GitHub repository into a single, LLM-optimized text view—perfect for summarization, embeddings, or chunked ingestion:

Take any GitHub repository URL, and simply replace the g in github.com with a u.

For example:

https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

becomes:

https://uithub.com/phoenixframework/phoenix

That URL will redirect you to a page showing the entire repository as a single flattened text file—ready for LLM consumption.

This view is powered by uithub.com, a tool that fetches and renders GitHub repositories as concatenated source code and metadata. It strips away UI clutter and gives you a clean, linear snapshot of the repo’s contents—ideal for use in LLM tools, code indexing, or quick reviews.

Use cases:

• Drop it into an embedding pipeline
• Feed it to a summarization model
• Index it in a vector DB
• Share a readable snapshot with a teammate

Limitations:

• Large repositories may be truncated
• Binary files are skipped
• The view is read-only—no editing or inline comments