{"slug": "your-offline-github", "title": "Your offline GitHub", "summary": "A developer with 15 years of coding experience built GitWarren, a free, open-source, fully local code review app that provides a GitHub-like PR experience before commits are pushed. The tool works directly with the working tree, supports committed, staged, unstaged, and untracked changes, and integrates with AI agents via MCP to streamline the review process.", "body_md": "Hi all!\n\nI’ve been coding professionally for the last 15 years - and more and more with AI next to me. Naturally pushed by the market to produce more and more output, I now find myself hopping daily between 5 to 7 simultaneous AI sessions.\n\nI realized that the bottleneck is becoming the code review process - and, more specifically, the place where I conduct those reviews.\n\nI work mostly in environments where it’s not really an option to dump one-shot AI slop into the company’s GitHub. By the time my work is pushed there, it needs to be more or less ready for code review by my colleagues.\n\nSo I found myself juggling between terminals and IDEs, copy-pasting my comments about changes created by my agents. I tried many solutions out there, but what I kept feeling was that what I really needed was my own local GitHub.\n\nI want that GitHub code review experience, but before a commit is made, right here on my computer. A single place where all my agents and I can talk about code changes.\n\nSo I built **GitWarren**.\n\nIt’s a local, PR-like code review app that works directly with your working tree. I can review committed, staged, unstaged, and untracked changes, leave inline comments, and organize the work into actual reviews without having to push anything anywhere.\n\nWhat I really like is that I can connect whatever AI I’m using at the moment through MCP and have a coherent experience without all the mundane copy-pasting. Also, all comments live in threads attached to specific code changes, so it’s easy to follow what’s going on over time.\n\nThe app is free, open source, fully local - no accounts, no servers - and you bring your own agents to the party.\n\nOn macOS, you can just:\n\n```\nbrew install --cask klarluft/tap/gitwarren\n```\n\nThere are also Linux and Windows builds available. The Windows build isn’t signed yet - I’m working on that.\n\nI think there must be more people facing similar problems right now, no?\n\nAlso, the more I work on this app, the more I feel like we may find many other use cases for a local GitHub-like experience. Maybe this could become a meeting place for different agents roaming inside your computer - and, as a bonus, you can peek through a nice UI at what they’re doing, just to stay in the \"loop\".\n\nWould love to hear how others are handling this.\n\nSome screenshots:", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-offline-github", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/michalwrzosek/your-offline-github-nd7", "published_at": "2026-09-04 05:18:17+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-04 05:53:51.199562+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["GitWarren", "GitHub", "MCP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-offline-github", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-offline-github.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-offline-github.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/your-offline-github.jsonld"}}