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CommitCraft Release VS Code Local AI Developer Tooling

Announcing CommitCraft: AI commit messages that never leave your machine

CommitCraft is a VS Code extension that generates conventional commit messages from your staged diff using a local AI model. No API keys, no internet, no subscription.

Today I’m releasing CommitCraft — a VS Code extension that reads your staged diff and writes a conventional commit message using an AI model running entirely on your machine.

No API key. No internet connection. No code ever sent to a remote server.

The problem it solves

Writing commit messages is one of those tasks that sits at the intersection of “important” and “easy to do badly under time pressure.” Conventional commits — type(scope): subject — are a well-established format that makes changelogs, releases, and git log actually readable. But getting the format right consistently, especially for a quick fix at the end of a long session, is friction that compounds.

Most AI tools that solve this send your diff to a remote model. That’s a non-starter for any codebase with proprietary code, credentials in context, or a security-conscious employer. I wanted something that would just work, locally, without thinking about it.

How it works

CommitCraft uses Qwen2.5-Coder 3B, a small code-focused language model distributed as a GGUF file. On first use, the extension downloads the model (~1.9 GB) to ~/.commitcraft/models/ — once, then never again.

From there the workflow is three steps:

  1. Install CommitCraft from the VS Code Marketplace
  2. Stage your changes as normal with git add or the Source Control panel
  3. Click the sparkle (✦) in the Source Control title bar — CommitCraft reads the diff, runs inference locally, and writes the commit message directly into the input box

On a typical laptop CPU, generation takes 2–6 seconds. No GPU required.

Conventional commits, every time

The output follows type(scope): subject format on every run:

fix(auth): return 401 when authorization header is missing
feat(payments): add Stripe webhook endpoint for subscription events
refactor(db): extract connection pooling into dedicated module

If you have a commitlint config in your repo, CommitCraft respects it.

Pricing

CommitCraft is free to try for 14 days — no license needed. After that, a one-time license is $9.

No subscription. No seat limits. No expiry. License validation happens offline via Ed25519 signature, so it works the same whether or not you have an internet connection.

The extension itself is MIT-licensed on GitHub. The compiled binaries ship under a commercial license.

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