ClawdCommit

A VS Code extension that generates git commit messages using the Claude Code CLI.

Stage your changes, click the ClawdCommit button in the Source Control title bar (or press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+C / Cmd+Shift+Alt+C on macOS), and ClawdCommit will draft a commit message based on your staged diff and recent commit history.

Installation

1. Visit the ClawdCommit listing in the Visual Studio Marketplace
2. Click on "Install" button
3. Proceed with the extension installation process

Prerequisites

• VS Code 1.109+
• A git repository open in a trusted workspace (the extension is disabled in Restricted Mode)
• Desktop: Claude Code CLI installed and available on your PATH
• VS Code for the Web (vscode.dev, github.dev): a Claude model available through the VS Code Language Model API, e.g. via GitHub Copilot or Bring Your Own Key

Configuration

All settings are available under Settings > Extensions > ClawdCommit or via clawdCommit.* in settings.json.

On the web, clawdCommit.model selects the matching claude-<model> family from the Language Model API; if it isn't available, the first available Anthropic model is used and a warning is shown. clawdCommit.includeFileContext applies to the desktop (CLI) only.

How it works

When you trigger ClawdCommit, it reads your staged diff and the last 5 commits, and sends them to Claude in a single request. On desktop, when includeFileContext is enabled, Claude may also read files in the repository to better understand the change. Claude generates a commit message matching your project's style and places it in the Source Control commit input box.

In multi-repo workspaces, clicking the button in a repository's Source Control title bar generates a message for that repository. When triggered from the keyboard or Command Palette, ClawdCommit uses the repository containing the active editor's file, falling back to the first repository.

Running locally

1. Clone the repo and install dependencies:

   git clone https://github.com/shiftinbits/clawdcommit.git
   cd clawdcommit
   npm install
   

2. Open the project in VS Code.

3. Press F5 (or Run > Start Debugging). This launches a new Extension Development Host window with the extension loaded.

4. In the Extension Development Host, open a git repository, stage some changes, and click the ClawdCommit icon in the Source Control title bar.

Development build

npm run compile

This type-checks with tsc then bundles with esbuild into dist/extension.js (desktop) and dist/web/extension.js (web).

Running tests

npm test
npm run test:coverage

Packaging as a .vsix

npx @vscode/vsce package

This produces a .vsix file you can install in VS Code via Extensions > Install from VSIX....

License

MIT — see LICENSE.