🌳 Smart Tree v5.2.0 - Lightning Fast Directory Visualization with Spicy TUI! 🌶️

Smart Tree is a blazingly fast, AI-friendly directory visualization tool that's 10-24x faster than traditional tree. Now with Spicy TUI mode for cyberpunk-cool directory browsing, Smart Tips, and MCP Hook Management! Built with Rust for maximum performance and featuring revolutionary compression algorithms.

⚡ Quick Start

# Install Smart Tree (choose your method)

# Option 1: Homebrew (builds from source)
brew install --HEAD --formula https://raw.githubusercontent.com/8b-is/smart-tree/main/Formula/smart-tree.rb

# Option 2: Install script (downloads binary)
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/8b-is/smart-tree/main/scripts/install.sh | bash

# Option 3: Cargo (builds from source)
cargo install --git https://github.com/8b-is/smart-tree --tag v5.2.0 st

# 🎉 Experience the magic!
st                          # Classic tree view
st --spicy                  # 🌶️ NEW: Spicy interactive TUI mode!
st --mode ai --compress     # AI-optimized (80% smaller)
st --mode quantum           # Quantum compression (100x smaller!)
st --search "TODO"          # Lightning-fast content search

🌶️ Spicy TUI Mode (NEW!)

Experience directory browsing like never before with our cyberpunk-inspired terminal UI:

st --spicy

Features:

• 🔍 Dual-Mode Search:
  • / - Search file names with fuzzy matching
  • Ctrl+F - Search file content across the tree
• 🌲 Tree Navigation: Navigate like a file tree!
  • ←/h - Collapse directory or go to parent
  • →/l - Expand directory or enter
  • ↑↓/jk - Navigate up/down
• 💾 M8 Context Caching: Directory contexts cached with quantum wave signatures
• 🎨 Syntax Highlighting: Beautiful code previews with search highlighting
• 🖼️ ASCII Art: Image previews converted to ASCII (requires artem)
• 🌊 Quantum Wave Signatures: Each search result saved with unique signature

Keyboard Shortcuts:

• Navigation:
  • j/k or ↑↓ - Move selection up/down
  • h/l or ←→ - Collapse/expand directories (tree navigation!)
  • Enter - Open selected item
• Search Modes:
  • / - Fuzzy search file names
  • Ctrl+F - Search content within files
  • Esc - Exit search mode
• Features:
  • Ctrl+H - Toggle hidden files
  • Ctrl+S - Save search results to M8 context
  • ? or F1 - Toggle help overlay
  • q or Esc - Quit

💡 Smart Tips System

Smart Tree now shows helpful tips at the top of the output!

st --tips off    # Disable tips
st --tips on     # Re-enable tips

• Tips appear on first run, then randomly every 10-20 runs
• Detects cool terminals (256color, iTerm, Alacritty, etc.) for fancy formatting
• State persisted in ~/.st/tips_state.json
• 15+ different tips about Smart Tree features

Example tip:

──── 🚀 Speed tip - Use --mode quantum for 100x compression! ─── --tips off ───

🎣 MCP Hook Management

Control Claude Code hooks programmatically via MCP tools:

// List all hooks
hooks {operation:'list'}

// Enable Smart Tree context hook
hooks {operation:'set', hook_type:'UserPromptSubmit', enabled:true}

// Test a hook
hooks {operation:'test', hook_type:'UserPromptSubmit', input:'analyze /src'}

The hooks provide:

• 🌳 Automatic directory context when paths are detected
• 🧠 MEM8 consciousness searching for relevant memories
• 📦 Git repository context
• ✨ All controlled programmatically via MCP!

🚀 Why Smart Tree?

⚡ Performance Benchmarks

🧠 AI-Optimized Features

• 30+ MCP Tools: Comprehensive toolkit for AI assistants
• Token-Efficient Formats: 70-90% reduction in token usage
• Quantum Compression: Revolutionary format achieving 100:1 compression
• Semantic Analysis: Understands code structure and relationships
• Context Preservation: Maintains session state between interactions

🎯 Core Features

Multiple Output Formats

• Classic (--mode classic): Traditional tree view
• AI-Optimized (--mode ai): Compressed for LLM context windows
• Quantum (--mode quantum): Maximum compression using wave functions
• Markdown (--mode markdown): Beautiful documentation format
• JSON/CSV/TSV: Structured data formats
• Mermaid (--mode mermaid): Flowchart diagrams

Advanced Capabilities

• Content Search: Lightning-fast regex search across files
• Git Integration: Shows repository status inline
• Streaming Mode: Handles millions of files efficiently
• MCP Server: Model Context Protocol for AI assistants
• Memory System: Preserves context across sessions

📦 Installation

macOS/Linux (Homebrew - builds from source)

# Direct formula installation (no tap needed!)
brew install --HEAD --formula https://raw.githubusercontent.com/8b-is/smart-tree/main/Formula/smart-tree.rb

From Source (All Platforms)

git clone https://github.com/8b-is/smart-tree
cd smart-tree
cargo build --release
sudo cp target/release/st /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp target/release/mq /usr/local/bin/
sudo cp target/release/m8 /usr/local/bin/

Binary Releases

Download pre-built binaries from releases

🎮 Usage Examples

Basic Operations

st                           # Current directory, depth 3
st /path/to/dir -d 5        # Specific path, depth 5
st --all                    # Show hidden files
st --size-sort              # Sort by file size

AI Integration

st --mode ai --compress      # Token-efficient format
st --mode quantum            # Maximum compression
st --mode summary-ai         # Ultra-compressed summary
st --mcp                     # Run as MCP server

Search & Filter

st --search "TODO"           # Search file contents
st --type rs                 # Only Rust files
st --pattern "test_*"        # Glob pattern matching
st --modified 7d             # Files modified in last 7 days

Advanced Features

st --git-aware               # Show git status
st --mode stats              # Directory statistics
st --stream                  # Streaming mode for huge directories
st --claude-save             # Save session consciousness

🔧 MCP Integration

Smart Tree provides 30+ tools via Model Context Protocol:

Setup for Claude Desktop

st --mcp-config >> ~/Library/Application\ Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

Available Tools

• overview: Quick project understanding
• find: Powerful file discovery
• search: Content search with context
• analyze: Deep code analysis
• edit: AST-aware code editing
• history: Track file changes
• memory: Anchor insights for recall
• hooks: Manage Claude Code hooks
• And many more!

🎨 Configuration

Environment Variables

export ST_DEFAULT_DEPTH=5       # Default tree depth
export ST_COLOR=always          # Force colors
export ST_NO_ICONS=1            # Disable emoji icons
export ST_MAX_FILE_SIZE=10M    # Skip large files

Config File

Create ~/.config/smart-tree/config.toml:

[display]
default_depth = 5
show_hidden = false
use_icons = true
color_mode = "auto"

[performance]
max_buffer_size = "100MB"
thread_count = 8
use_streaming = true

[mcp]
enabled = true
port = 3000

📊 Compression Formats

Marqant (.mq files)

Revolutionary markdown compression achieving 70-90% size reduction:

mq compress README.md        # Compress single file
mq aggregate docs/           # Compress directory
mq decompress file.mq        # Restore original

Quantum Format

Wave-function based compression for maximum efficiency:

• 100:1 compression ratios
• Preserves semantic meaning
• Self-describing format
• Progressive decompression

🛠️ Development

Building from Source

git clone https://github.com/8b-is/smart-tree
cd smart-tree
cargo build --release
cargo test

Running Tests

cargo test                    # Unit tests
./scripts/test_all.sh        # Integration tests
cargo bench                  # Performance benchmarks

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Please read CONTRIBUTING.md

📚 Documentation

• API Documentation
• MCP Tools Reference
• Compression Formats
• Performance Guide
• Claude Integration

🎖️ Credits

Created by the 8b-is team with contributions from:

• 8bit-wraith: Core architecture & performance
• Claude: AI integration & MCP tools
• Omni: Quantum compression algorithms
• Community: Features, bugs, and inspiration

📄 License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details

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