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. Website: commitbrief.com.

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/tap/commitbrief        # macOS + Linux
# or
go install github.com/CommitBrief/commitbrief/cmd/commitbrief@latest
# or, on Windows
scoop bucket add commitbrief https://github.com/CommitBrief/scoop-bucket && scoop install commitbrief

commitbrief setup               # one-time interactive provider + API key setup
commitbrief                     # review your currently staged changes

Want a fully local, privacy-first setup? Point CommitBrief at Ollama and your favorite local model — no data leaves your machine.

Built in already:

• An MCP server (commitbrief mcp) so coding agents can call CommitBrief as a review gate over stdio.
• PR review from the terminal (commitbrief remote pr <ID>) via your local gh CLI — inline comments plus a verdict.

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. Ten providers out of the box — Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini and local Ollama natively; DeepSeek, Mistral and Cohere over their OpenAI-compatible APIs; plus claude-cli, gemini-cli and codex-cli that reuse a CLI subscription you already pay for. 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 commitbrief and let the diff speak.