paint.software
An open-source clone of Paint.NET (paint.net) for Linux: a C++/Qt6 image editor with layers, effects and adjustments. Contributions welcome
What XERJ indexed
Snapshot
The whole repository at commit 0fefa05161 (2026-10-20). main is 7 commits ahead.
Selected work
“Added Live Preview to Remaining Adjustment Dialogs”. 8 files, 1,277 lines in tests, src, src/dialogs.
Licence
The repository
LICENSE file checked at the pinned commit; the author agreed to inclusion.
The XERJ corpus
The author agreed by email on 2026-10-27. Same terms as the repository. Answers name the repo, the commit and the file:line.
selected for the XERJ Corpus Hublicence clearedsuggested use: adapt with attribution
cppcpp17drawing-appimage-editingimage-editorlinuxopen-sourcepaint
Example questions
- How does paint.software implement cpp?
- Where does paint.software handle “Added Live Preview to Remaining Adjustment Dialogs”?
- What does src/dialogs do in paint.software?
Inside the indexed corpus
- Languages by size: C++ 97.8%, CMake 0.9%, Shell 0.5%, C 0.5%, HTML 0.3%.
- On GitHub since 2026-07-15, last push 2026-10-31, 108 commits on main.
- The pin is 7 commits behind main; the corpus answers from the pinned code, not the newest.
Licence on GitHub and in the corpus
GitHub reported MIT for Univers4craft/paint.software on 2026-10-31, and the LICENSE file at commit 0fefa05161 was reviewed as MIT. They match, so answers from this corpus carry the same terms as the live repository.
Contributors
TexNash (@TexNash) has 1 selected repository on the hub.
Using XERJ with paint.software
- Search an OpenAPI spec so an agent can find endpoints The hub files it under API design and specification.
- Ask questions about a GitHub repo without cloning it
- Index a reference library for a coding agent
- ripgrep vs a code index for coding agents: 30 tasks
The prompt
Paste it into your AI agent. It clones Univers4craft/paint.software at the pinned commit and indexes it on your machine.
Search the GitHub repository Univers4craft/paint.software with XERJ (https://hub.xerj.org/corpus/univers4craft--paint-software). Run these in a shell, in order, and check each result before the next: 1. xerj --help (success: it prints usage). If xerj is missing: curl -fsSL https://xerj.org/get | sh 2. git clone https://github.com/Univers4craft/paint.software paint.software && git -C paint.software checkout 0fefa0516123e420c6f75b4068f11cfc3a668476 3. Start a local node and leave it running: xerj --insecure --data-dir ./xerj-data 4. xerj autoindex ./paint.software --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 --prefix paint-software --progress plain 5. xerj autoindex map --url http://127.0.0.1:9200 Then answer my question from the indexed files and cite the ax_path of every hit. Query syntax: https://xerj.org/llms.txt Licence: MIT. Keep the copyright notice and credit the authors.
Related
TexNashAPI design and specification corporadatasketches-cppcerealxerj-columnarthiagovespa/clivcutssserch/Kaintjmuehlig/perf-cpp
Stats: GitHub API, fetched 2026-10-31. Selected work and consent: the XERJ registry.