Asking a Tool to Review My Own Diff — Why I Built CommitBrief
One afternoon I hit the limits of self-review, so I wrote a tool that audits my own diff without leaving the terminal: CommitBrief.
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Building CommitBrief
From a small CLI that has an LLM review my own diff to a tool the team uses to catch flaky tests: the CommitBrief log.
This series has 3 posts.
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CommitBrief Gains summary and remote: Brief a Change, Review a PR from the Terminal
Two new commands: summary briefs a change and its history, and remote pr reviews a PR from the terminal, leaving comments before the human does.
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Part 3
A Flaky-Test Detector for CommitBrief: Catching AI-Written Flaky Tests at Commit Time
I added a deterministic flaky-test filter to CommitBrief: it catches hard-coded sleeps and unseeded randomness at commit time, with no model.