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- Tignex
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- commitbrief.com
- Status
- v1.16.0 · stable
- License
- GPL-3.0
The problem
The cheapest bug to fix is the one you catch before anyone else reads the diff. Getting that first pass usually means signing up for a review platform, pushing the branch, and handing your source to a service — a lot of ceremony for a question you wanted answered locally, a minute after staging the change.
The approach
CommitBrief is a command-line tool that reviews what you point it at: the staged changes, a historic commit range, or a whole GitHub pull request. It runs on your machine, keeps no server, and sends no telemetry.
The model is your choice, not ours. It speaks to ten providers — Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Cohere, the Claude Code, Gemini and Codex CLIs — and to Ollama, which keeps the whole review on your own hardware. You bring the key; nothing is rented from us.
What it is not
It is not a SaaS platform and there is no account to create. Install it from Homebrew, Scoop or `go install`, and if you stop using it, nothing of yours stays behind on someone else's infrastructure.
Frequently asked
- Does my code get sent to a server you run?
- No. CommitBrief runs on your machine, keeps no server component and sends no telemetry. Your code goes to whichever model provider you configured — and with Ollama it does not leave your hardware at all.
- Which model providers are supported?
- Ten: Anthropic Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, DeepSeek, Mistral, Cohere, the Claude Code, Gemini and Codex CLIs, and Ollama. You supply the key and nothing is rented through us.
- What can it review?
- Your staged changes, a historic commit range, or a whole GitHub pull request.
- Can it block a merge or enforce a review policy?
- No, and that is deliberate. Required reviews and merge gates belong on the forge. CommitBrief is a reviewer you consult before that point, not a gate you pass.
Part of Tignex
CommitBrief is developed and published by Tignex, an independent open-source engineering organization. The project keeps its own name, identity and home; Tignex is the engineering behind it.