# AI Powered Git Commit Assistant

> Source: <https://dev.to/bijaydas/ai-powered-git-commit-assistant-4l9>
> Published: 2026-09-26 22:21:22+00:00

Writing a good Git commit messages is a small but repetitive work of software development.

I often found myself spending time deciding whether a change should be `feat`, `fix` or `chore`, and then trying to write a description.

So I decided to build a small cli tool to help.

cmt-cli Git Commit assistant that analyzes your staged changes and generates a commit message.

A commit message saying `updated stuff` or `wip` doesn't tell us much when looking through Git history.

A good commit message should be like:

I wanted to automate the repetative part while still keeping the developer in control of the final message.

The flow is simple:

`cmt suggest`
OpenAI

`cmt-cli`
Install it directly from PyPi

```
uv tool install cmt-cli
```

Then configure your OpenAI API key and preferred model (default is `gpt-4o-mini`)

```
cmt config set
```

Now got to any Git repository, stage your changes and run

```
cmt suggest
```

That's it.

If you want to try `cmt-cli`:

GitHub: [https://github.com/bijaydas/cmt](https://github.com/bijaydas/cmt)

PyPi: [https://pypi.org/project/cmt-cli/](https://pypi.org/project/cmt-cli/)