gmsg

GMSG

AI-powered utility for generating conventional Git commit messages.

gmsg is a high-performance CLI tool built in Rust for generating commit messages. It uses AI to analyze your staged diffs and generate messages based on the Conventional Commits specification.

🚀 Features

Spec-Grounded: Uses the Conventional Commits specification as a system prompt to ensure total compliance. You can also modify the system prompt to align with your preferred specifications.
Interactive TUI: Review and edit generated messages in a Ratatui-powered editor before finalizing.
UNIX Compliant: Automatically discovers the closest git repository in your current folder with TTY/pipe-aware behavior.
Clipboard & Amend Support: Easily copy messages to your clipboard or amend the most recent commit.
Multi-Provider and Model Support: Built with Rig, providing excellent support for a wide range of LLM providers and models of your choice.

🛠 Installation

Ensure you have your appropriate API key set in your environment variables.

export GEMINI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
cargo install gmsg

Or download a prebuilt binary for your platform.

📖 Usage

Standard Workflow

Stage your changes and let gmsg handle the whole commit process.

git add .
gmsg

Interactive Review

Review and modify the generated message before committing:

gmsg -i

Ctrl+S: Save and continue.
Ctrl+Q: Discard and exit.

Helper Mode

If you just want to generate the message without committing:

# Copy to clipboard and exit
gmsg -c

# Output to a file
gmsg > message.txt

# Pipe to another utility
gmsg | grep

Amending

Amend the message of your last commit. If you have staged changes, the diff is sent alongside the previous message to the AI. Otherwise, it opens an editor.

gmsg -a

⚙️ Configuration

gmsg is zero-config by default. But you can configure it.

gmsg config.provider   # set your LLM provider
gmsg config.model      # set your model
gmsg config.prompt <Prompt>    # customize the system prompt

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Flag	Long	Description
`-p`	`--path`	Path to the repository (defaults to current dir).
`-i`	`--interactive`	Opens the TUI editor before committing.
`-c`	`--copy`	Copies the message to clipboard and exits.
`-a`	`--amend`	Amends the HEAD commit with the new message.

Configuration can be set in your project’s .gmsgconfig.toml or your global config directory. Project-level config takes precedence.

🏗 Architecture

Agent Logic: Powered by the rig crate for LLM orchestration.
Git Operations: Uses git2-rs for robust interaction with Git.
Terminal UI: Built with ratatui and ratatui-textarea for a smooth editing experience.
Async Runtime: Driven by tokio for non-blocking AI generation.

🛡 License

MIT – Build something great.

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