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I built a VS Code extension that gives any AI your full codebase in one click

Every time I started a new Claude session I was manually re-uploading the same files over and over. Hit the 20-file limit constantly. Lost context mid-build. Got fed up.
Built a VS Code extension called SendToAI. One click bundles your whole project into a single clipboard paste — paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, whatever and it instantly has your full codebase.
The token stuff is actually useful — it shows you exactly how much you’re sending before you send it:
∙ Live token count as you pick files
∙ Cost estimate per model (Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus) so you’re not burning money blindly
∙ Only 6% of Claude’s 200k context window for a typical project
∙ Compact mode strips comments and saves ~20% tokens automatically
Also has project notes that persist between sessions — your stack, architecture decisions, whatever — so Claude always has context without you typing it again.
The meta moment: hit my context limit building the extension itself, used it to bundle its own source, pasted into a new chat and kept going. Didn’t lose a single thing.
Free to install — search SendToAI in VS Code or here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=OxainZ.sendtoai
GitHub:
https://github.com/OxainZ/sendtoai-vscode
Would love feedback from anyone who tries it.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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