Reference

Reference material — this section is autogenerated into the sidebar.

• Example Reference — A starter reference page.
• Git diffs and logs — Inject working-tree diffs, branch diffs, branch logs, and per-file changed content into the prompt with gnaw's git flags.
• MCP server — The gnaw-mcp server: transport, the GNAW_MCP_ROOT confinement model, the extract and estimate tools, and what isn't exposed yet.
• Output formats — The --output-format flag, gnaw's Markdown and XML structures, and the related rendering flags.
• Reading paths from stdin — When gnaw reads a path list from stdin, how those paths are resolved, and how stdin mode interacts with filtering, templates, and the git flags.
• Secret scanning — The --secret-scan policies, the built-in detection rules, path allowlisting, and the .gnawconfig keys.
• Shell completion — How gnaw's dynamic completion is installed per shell and what it completes.
• Timing and performance — Use --timing to print how long a run took and a per-stage breakdown of where the time went.
• Token map — Print a token-weighted tree of the repo to find exactly what's inflating your prompt.
• TUI keymap — Every key binding in the gnaw TUI: modes, global shortcuts, the command line, and per-tab keys.