Dagger’s AICodebaseExporter is a Unity Editor tool designed to export a project’s codebase into a clean, structured, and AI-ready format. It helps developers prepare the right project context for tools like ChatGPT or Claude, making debugging, refactoring, and code analysis faster and more reliable.
Full Description
Dagger’s AICodebaseExporter was built to solve a real workflow problem: using AI effectively with Unity projects. In practice, Unity codebases are spread across many folders, mixed with plugins, packages, and unrelated files, making it difficult to provide AI tools with the right context. Manual export is tedious, noisy, and often incomplete.
This tool creates a professional workflow for selecting, previewing, filtering, and exporting only the relevant parts of a codebase. Instead of copy-pasting scripts by hand, developers can generate a structured export optimized for AI consumption, improving response quality and reducing the friction involved in debugging or understanding large projects.
Problem → Solution
Problem: AI tools are useful for Unity development, but they perform poorly when given incomplete or noisy context. Exporting the right files manually wastes time, and most projects contain large amounts of irrelevant code or third-party content.
Solution: Dagger’s AICodebaseExporter gives developers full control over what gets exported. It provides folder selection, smart filtering, an interactive preview tree, and multiple export formats, producing a structured output designed specifically for AI-assisted workflows.
Key Features
- Dynamic folder selection with add/remove controls.
- Drag & drop folder input for faster setup.
- Interactive codebase preview tree with expandable hierarchy.
- Per-folder include/exclude controls.
- Detection of external and vendor folders.
- Bulk actions such as Include All, Exclude External, and Expand/Collapse All.
- Support for exporting .cs files and optional related file types such as .shader, .txt, .json, and .asset.
- Custom exclude patterns for filtering out plugins, third-party code, or unwanted directories.
- Export formats for Markdown, plain text, and JSON.
- Structured output including file paths, formatted sections, and summary metadata.
- Overwrite protection and automatic reveal of exported files in the OS.
- Editor-only architecture with no runtime impact.
Technical Highlights
- Built entirely as a Unity EditorWindow tool.
- Modular architecture separating UI, scanning, filtering, preview generation, and export building.
- Designed to handle larger codebases efficiently.
- UTF-8 safe file reading for robust text export.
- Tab-based interface focused on clarity and usability.
- Production-oriented workflow design rather than a prototype-level implementation.
What This Project Shows
This project demonstrates advanced Unity Editor scripting, strong system architecture, and a product-oriented approach to tool development. It reflects not only technical implementation, but also the ability to identify a real developer pain point, design around a practical workflow, and deliver an asset with professional polish.
More specifically, it showcases my ability to build modular editor tools, design developer-facing UI, structure complex workflows clearly, and think beyond code toward usability, clarity, and real production value.
Current Status
Submitted for Review
Suggested Screenshots
Recommended screenshots: main tool window, interactive preview tree with included/excluded folders, and an example of the final exported AI-ready output.