Hey everyone,

I wanted to share smart-commit-rs, a fast, lightweight cross-platform CLI tool I built to facilitate managing git commits, including generating messages via LLMs.

Why this commit generator? I really liked the workflow of tools like opencommit, but I hated the footprint and lack of customization. They require Node.js and pull in ~100MB of node_modules just to string together a diff and an API call. They also suffer from Node cold-start times (~300ms).

I rewrote this concept in Rust. smart-commit-rs (alias: cgen) is a single ~2MB static binary with absolutely zero runtime dependencies. It starts instantly and generates messages in ~800ms. The plan is to make the entire flow as customizable as possible. We currently have 21 configurable variables, with plans to make this even more tailorable to what you want.