git-cai-cli 0.6.1

Use LLM to create git commit messages

cai

cai is a Git extension to automate the creation of commit messages. Simply run git cai to generate automatically a commit message based on the changes and new files in your repository.

cai uses a large language model (LLM) to produce commit messages that are meaningful and context-aware.

Table of Contents

• About
• Prerequisites
• Features
• Installation
• Usage
• Configuration
• CLI
• License

About

cai is designed to simplify Git workflows by generating commit messages automatically using an LLM. No more struggling to summarize changes, just run git cai.

Currently, it supports the API of OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, Groq and Xai for message generation.

Prerequisites

• Python 3.10 or higher
• Pipx or Pip if installed in a virtual environment
• API key, of at least one of the following providers
  • OpenAI
  • Gemini
  • Anthropic
  • Groq
  • Xai
  • Mistral
  • Deepseek

Features

• Automatically detects added, modified, and deleted files
• Generates meaningful, context-aware commit messages using an LLM
• Seamless integration with Git as a plugin/extension
• Supports different LLM models and languages for each repository, as well as global configuration
• Allows to squash all commits in a branch and summarizes the commit messages

Installation

Installation:

pipx install git-cai-cli

Afterwards, add to PATH:

pipx ensurepath

Finally, restart the shell.

Usage

Once installed, cai works like a standard Git command:

git cai

cai uses Git’s diff output to generate commit messages. The generated message is then opened within the editor according to your git configuration, allowing reviewing and editing before confirming the commit.

In short: it behaves like git commit, but the commit message is pre-filled.

To exclude specific files or directories from being included in the generated commit message, create a .caiignore file in the root of your repository. This file works like a .gitignore.

• Files listed in .gitignore are always excluded.
• .caiignore is only needed for files that are tracked by Git but should not be included in the commit message.

Configuration

The first time you run git cai two configuration files are automatically created:

• cai_config.yml – Stores general settings:

home/<USERNAME>/.config/cai/cai_config.yml

• tokens.yml – Stores API token(s):

home/<USERNAME>/.config/cai/tokens.yml

Add provider API token to tokens.yml so that cai can use it each time to generate a commit message.

If a cai_config.yml file exists in the root of your repository, cai will use the settings defined there. Otherwise, it falls back to the default settings.

To use a repository-specific configuration, copy the config file to the root of your repository and adjust it as needed:

cp ~/.config/cai/cai_config.yml .

Currently, the following options can be customized:

• default: set the default provider
• model: specify which model of the provider to use (please note, perhaps not all models will work)
• temperature: control how creative the model’s responses are
• language: set the language in which the LLM should generate commit messages
• style: choose a certain tone style of the commit message
• emoji: boolean to enable/disable usage of emojis

CLI

Besides running git cai to generate commit messages, you can use the following options:

• -h shows a brief help message with available commands
• -a, --all stages all modified and deleted files that are already tracked by Git
• -d, --debug enables debug logging to help troubleshoot issues
• -l, --list list information about languages and styles which can be used
• -s, --squash squash commits on this branch and summarize them
• -u, --update checks for updates the cai tool
• -v, --version displays the currently installed version

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.