CommitCraft — Local AI

AI-generated conventional commit messages. Entirely on-device. No API keys. No code leaves your machine.

The problem

Your company uses Conventional Commits. Commitlint rejects messages that don't conform. Writing a good type(scope): subject line every time is friction you don't need.

AI tools like Copilot and ChatGPT can solve this — but they send your staged diff to a remote server. At a bank, a hospital, a defense contractor, or any organization with a code-confidentiality policy, that's a non-starter.

CommitCraft solves the content problem without the data leak.

How it works

Stage your changes. Click ✦ in the Source Control panel. CommitCraft reads your diff, runs a 3B-parameter code model entirely on your CPU, and writes the commit message directly into the input box — in under 6 seconds on a typical laptop.

git diff --staged  →  local model  →  fix(auth): return 401 when authorization header is missing

Zero network calls at inference time. The model runs in a bundled llama.cpp binary. Nothing leaves your machine.

Features

• Fully offline after first use — inference never touches the network
• Conventional Commits — type(scope): subject every time
• commitlint-aware — reads your .commitlintrc / commitlint.config.js for allowed types, scopes, and length limits
• Zero config — works out of the box; model downloads itself on first use
• Open source — audit every line on GitHub; no hidden telemetry
• Windows · macOS · Linux — platform-specific builds, no Ollama required

Installation

1. Install from the VS Code Marketplace
2. On first use, CommitCraft prompts you to download the AI model (~1.9 GB) from Hugging Face — once, cached to ~/.commitcraft/models/
3. Stage some changes, click ✦ in the Source Control panel

License

Free 14-day trial. After that, a one-time license key unlocks CommitCraft permanently.

$9 one-time — cyferlawyn.org/commitcraft

No subscription. No seat limits. No expiry. License validation is cryptographic (Ed25519) and fully offline — no license server is ever contacted.

Activating your key

Open the Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P / Cmd+Shift+P) → CommitCraft: Enter License Key → paste your key.

Check your trial status at any time: Command Palette → CommitCraft: License Info.

Privacy

Configuration

macOS note

macOS may quarantine the bundled llama.cpp binary. If you see a security error on first run, open a terminal and run:

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine ~/.vscode/extensions/cyferlawyn.cyferlawyn-commitcraft-*/bin/darwin-*/

Then reload VS Code. This is a one-time step.

Source & license

Extension source: MIT license — github.com/cyferlawyn/commitcraft-vscode

Compiled binaries and releases: commercial license. See LICENSE.