Series
From a small CLI that quietly has an LLM review my own diff to a tool that moves to the team and catches flaky tests at commit time — the step-by-step log of building CommitBrief.
This series has 3 posts.
Part 1
One afternoon I ran headfirst into the limits of self-review, so I wrote a tool that audits my own diff right from the terminal: CommitBrief. A note on why I built it, how it works, and what problem it actually solves.
Part 2
Two new commands landed in CommitBrief: summary briefs a change and its history, and remote pr reviews a PR from the terminal, leaving its comments before the human does. To clear the way for the human reviewer, not replace them.
Part 3
I added a deterministic flaky-test filter to CommitBrief. Instead of asking the LLM, it catches hard-coded sleeps and unseeded randomness in changed test files at commit time — no model. Here's why I chose static analysis over an LLM prompt.