LLM-powered code review for your local commits — before another human sees them.
CommitBrief is a developer-first toolchain that brings AI code review into the terminal, right next to git. No web UI, no SaaS dashboard, no telemetry — just a faster feedback loop on the code you are about to commit.
Note
🎉 v1.1.0 is out. CommitBrief is now stable (strict semver since v1.0.0) and ships commitbrief remote pr <ID> — review a GitHub pull request straight from your terminal: each finding is posted as an inline review comment, plus an approve / comment / request-changes verdict. Install via Homebrew, Scoop, or go install. → Release notes
Every modern engineer ships code under two opposing pressures: review thoroughness and review latency. Today the options are:
- Re-read your own diff — slow, easy to miss issues, inconsistent.
- Ask a colleague — high-quality, but a costly synchronous round-trip.
- Paste into a chat UI — friction, no project rules, no caching, no git context.
CommitBrief fills the gap: a five-second AI-assisted pre-check on the diff in front of you, using rules you defined, run against the AI provider you chose (including local-only Ollama).
brew install commitbrief # macOS + Linux
# or
go install github.com/CommitBrief/commitbrief@latest
commitbrief setup # one-time interactive provider + API key setup
commitbrief # review your currently staged changesWant a fully local, privacy-first setup? Point CommitBrief at Ollama and your favorite local model — no data leaves your machine.
| Project | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| commitbrief | The CLI: review --staged / --unstaged, any git diff range, or a GitHub PR (remote pr). Structured findings in your terminal, in your language. |
Stable — v1.1.0 |
Companion tools (planned):
- A GitHub Action that runs CommitBrief in CI on pull requests.
- A VS Code extension that wraps the CLI for in-editor reviews.
- Privacy-first. No telemetry, no remote config, no shared state. Your code stays where you put it.
- Provider-agnostic. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, and local Ollama supported out of the box. No vendor lock-in.
- Developer-controlled. You define the review rules in plain Markdown in your repo. CommitBrief reads them as the system prompt — no DSL to learn.
- Terminal-native. Streaming output, color, glamour-rendered Markdown. JSON when you need to script around it.
- Open source. All projects under GPL-3.0.
- General questions: open a discussion on the relevant repo.
- Bug reports: open an issue with the bug-report template.
- Security: see each repo's
SECURITY.md, or email info@muhammetsafak.com.tr.
Free your commits from the "looks good to me" reflex. Run
commitbriefand let the diff speak.
