codebase-inspection

Run pygount with --format=summary from the repository root to get a per-language table of files, code lines, and comment lines. Always pass --folders-to-skip to exclude .git, node_modules, and venv directories.

Use the --suffix flag to filter by file extension, for example pygount --suffix=py --format=summary . counts only Python files. Multiple suffixes can be comma-separated, such as py,yaml,yml.

pygount crawls every directory by default, including node_modules, .git, and virtual environments, which contain thousands of files. Fix this by passing --folders-to-skip with those directory names.

pygount classifies all Markdown content as comments rather than code, so Markdown files report zero code lines. This is expected behavior, not a bug.

Yes, pygount supports --format=json for programmatic consumption alongside the default summary table and per-file detailed output. JSON output can be piped into other tools for further processing.

pygount may count JSON lines conservatively, so use wc -l for accurate JSON counts. Very large monorepos are better handled with --suffix filtering to target specific languages instead of scanning everything.