Briefly – A CLI that turns Git commits into changelogs and posts them to Discord(npmjs.com)

2 pointsby jmscarpax11 miesięcy temu3 comments

Briefly – A CLI that turns Git commits into changelogs and posts them to Discord

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jmscarpa/briefly

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jmscarpax11 miesięcy temu

My team and I used to share weekly changelogs manually: backend, frontend, and design updates written into a team channel. It was useful for keeping everyone aligned, but it took effort to turn commit-level work into something product/design could follow.

Since we were already experimenting with AI, we decided to automate it. The result is *Briefly* – a lightweight CLI that:

- Collects commits from your repo - Summarizes them with OpenAI - Outputs a clean `briefly-summary.md` - Publishes directly to Discord via webhook

The workflow is simple: briefly setup briefly generate briefly publish

It’s available on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jmscarpa/briefly

Roadmap includes: aliases (`briefly g`), multilingual summaries, relative dates (`--since 7d|1w|2m`), dry-run for CI, and custom prompts.

We’ve been using it internally and it’s saving us ~30 minutes per week while producing more consistent updates.

Would love feedback from the community — especially around CI integration ideas or formats beyond Discord.

beeman11 miesięcy temu

This looks pretty nice, thanks for sharing. Is it available on GitHub?

jmscarpax11 miesięcy temu

Hey! Yes it is, here you go github.com/jmscarpa/briefly