DevAsign

DevAsign is a VS Code extension that helps developers review local code changes and generate meaningful commit messages — all without leaving the editor.

Features

Review Local Changes

Before pushing, DevAsign reviews your uncommitted changes and returns a structured set of findings. Open the DevAsign sidebar and click Start Review.

A review page opens beside your editor and fills in as the review runs: each step as it happens (collecting changes, gathering context, uploading, reviewing), then the score and each finding the moment the reviewer writes it. Findings are marked provisional until the review finishes. Click a finding's file:line to jump straight to it, copy a single fix or the whole review as a prompt for your AI agent, cancel a review that is taking too long, or run it again. Past reviews open on the same page from Previous Reviews in the sidebar or with DevAsign: Open Last Review.

You can optionally add context to sharpen the review:

• GitHub issue link — reviews your changes against what the issue asks for. The issue must be in a public repository. To use an issue from a private repository, install the DevAsign App on that repository at app.devasign.com first.
• Context files — pick workspace files the review should take into account, such as related modules or interfaces your changes depend on.

Both are optional. Without them, DevAsign reviews the changes on their own.

Every review also gathers the code around your change from the working tree, using git on your machine: the full function or class enclosing each edit, the definitions of the classes and imports your change uses, and the places that call what you changed. This is the review's only source of surrounding code, so nothing needs to be installed or indexed, it works on any repository, and it reflects your uncommitted edits. No file leaves your machine except the slices the review needs.

Steer the Review With Your Own Rules

Every review reads the instruction files in your repository root and enforces the conventions they state on your changed lines:

• DEVASIGN.md — your review guide. Installing the extension creates a starter file in each open repository; fill it with the rules, conventions, and context specific to your codebase. Delete it and it stays deleted.
• The files you already keep for AI coding agents: CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, GEMINI.md, .cursorrules, .cursor/rules/*.mdc, .windsurfrules, .clinerules, and .github/copilot-instructions.md.

Where they disagree, DEVASIGN.md wins. DevAsign only enforces rules these files actually state; it won't invent conventions.

Generate Commit Messages

DevAsign analyzes your staged changes and generates a descriptive, conventional commit message for you — ready to use or edit before committing.

Requirements

• VS Code ^1.107.0
• A Git repository open in your workspace

Getting Started

1. Install the extension from the Open VSX Registry or VS Code Marketplace
2. Open a Git repository in VS Code
3. Click the DevAsign icon in the Activity Bar to open the sidebar
4. Sign in with your DevAsign account
5. Use the sidebar to review changes or generate a commit message, adding an issue link or context files if you want them considered

Telemetry

DevAsign sends a small number of usage events (signing in, starting a review, generating a commit message) to help improve the extension. Events include your DevAsign user ID and username, or your editor's machine ID when you are signed out, plus the issue link when you start a review. No code is sent as telemetry.

DevAsign respects your editor's telemetry setting: set telemetry.telemetryLevel to off and no events are sent.