CommitBrief is a local-first CLI that runs an LLM review over your git diff before a teammate — or your future self — sees it. There's no server and no telemetry; the diff leaves your machine only for the provider you chose, and with a local model like Ollama it never leaves at all.
The interesting engineering isn't "call an LLM." It's everything that has to happen around that call so the review stays cheap, safe, and reproducible. Here's the whole path from commitbrief --staged to the findings on your screen.
TL;DR
What it is — a CLI that reviews your staged diff (or any git diff range) with the provider you pick: Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a fully local Ollama model.
The non-obvious part — the LLM call is one stage out of fourteen. Filtering, a pre-send secret scan, content-addressed caching, and a cost preflight do most of the work.
