diff --git a/src/codeguard/utils/file.py b/src/codeguard/utils/file.py
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+import os
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Generator, List, Optional
+
+
+class FileUtils:
+    CODE_EXTENSIONS = {
+        ".py", ".pyw",
+        ".js", ".jsx", ".ts", ".tsx", ".mjs", ".cjs",
+        ".go",
+        ".rs",
+        ".java", ".kt", ".scala",
+        ".c", ".cpp", ".h", ".hpp",
+        ".rb",
+        ".php",
+        ".swift",
+    }
+
+    @classmethod
+    def find_code_files(
+        cls,
+        path: Path,
+        extensions: Optional[set] = None,
+    ) -> Generator[Path, None, None]:
+        exts = extensions or cls.CODE_EXTENSIONS
+
+        if path.is_file():
+            if path.suffix in exts:
+                yield path
+            return
+
+        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(path):
+            for file in files:
+                if file.startswith("."):
+                    continue
+                file_path = Path(root) / file
+                if file_path.suffix in exts:
+                    yield file_path
+
+    @classmethod
+    def read_file_safe(cls, file_path: Path, encoding: str = "utf-8") -> Optional[str]:
+        try:
+            return file_path.read_text(encoding=encoding)
+        except (UnicodeDecodeError, IOError):
+            return None
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_file_size(cls, file_path: Path) -> int:
+        try:
+            return file_path.stat().st_size
+        except IOError:
+            return 0
+
+    @classmethod
+    def count_lines(cls, file_path: Path) -> int:
+        try:
+            with open(file_path) as f:
+                return sum(1 for _ in f)
+        except IOError:
+            return 0
+
+    @classmethod
+    def is_binary(cls, file_path: Path) -> bool:
+        try:
+            with open(file_path, "rb") as f:
+                chunk = f.read(8192)
+                return b"\x00" in chunk
+        except IOError:
+            return True
+
+    @classmethod
+    def get_relative_path(cls, file_path: Path, base_path: Path) -> Path:
+        return file_path.relative_to(base_path)
+
+    @classmethod
+    def list_directories(cls, path: Path) -> List[Path]:
+        if not path.is_dir():
+            return []
+        return [d for d in path.iterdir() if d.is_dir()]
+
+    @classmethod
+    def ensure_directory(cls, path: Path) -> None:
+        path.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)