Daily-Summary

A CLI tool that summarizes your daily git commits across multiple repositories. Optionally uses AI (Claude Code) to generate human-readable summaries from your actual code changes.

Works with local commits — no need to push first.

Why?

Ever needed to recall what you worked on yesterday for a standup? Tired of running git log across a dozen repos? daily-summary scans all your local repositories and builds a single markdown report of your day — like a personal git activity report.

• Prepare daily standup notes in seconds
• Generate an AI-powered work summary grouped by theme, not repo
• Keep a searchable developer journal of your daily output
• Track work across multiple git repos with one command

Install

git clone https://github.com/dvir-highlander/daily-summary.git
cd daily-summary
chmod +x daily-summary
cp daily-summary ~/bin/

# Make sure ~/bin is in your PATH
echo 'export PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

# Run the setup wizard
daily-summary --setup

Commands

Command	Description
daily-summary	Yesterday's commits (raw)
daily-summary today	Today's commits (raw)
daily-summary 2025-03-12	Specific date (cached if exists)
daily-summary --ai	Yesterday's commits — AI-reviewed
daily-summary --ai today	Today's commits — AI-reviewed
daily-summary --refresh	Force re-scan yesterday (overwrite cache)
daily-summary --refresh today	Force re-scan today
daily-summary --week	This week overview (Mon-Sun)
daily-summary --week last	Last week overview
daily-summary --list	Browse saved summaries (interactive)
daily-summary --open	Open summaries folder
daily-summary --setup	Configure on a new machine
daily-summary --help	Show help
daily-summary --version	Show version

Examples

daily-summary today — Raw mode

Quick commit list, no AI, instant.

$ daily-summary today

# Daily Summary — Wednesday, March 12 2025

## my-saas-app (2 commits)

- f4a21c03 Add Stripe webhook handler for subscription renewals
- 8b3e0917 Fix race condition in user session middleware

## shared-libs (1 commits)

- d19c44af Update retry logic in HTTP client wrapper

---
**Total: 3 commits**

Saved to: ~/daily-summaries/2025-03-12.md

daily-summary --ai — AI-reviewed

Groups work by theme, explains what was done and why, includes commit refs.

$ daily-summary --ai
Analyzing 5 commits with AI...

# Daily Summary — Tuesday, March 11 2025

**TLDR:** Shipped Stripe subscription renewal handling and
fixed session reliability issues across the auth layer.

## What I worked on
- **Payment integration** — Added webhook handler for Stripe
  subscription renewals with idempotency checks and
  invoice event logging. (`f4a21c03`, `c7e512ba`)
- **Auth stability** — Fixed race condition in session middleware
  that caused intermittent 401s under load. (`8b3e0917`)
- **Shared HTTP client** — Updated retry logic with exponential
  backoff and configurable timeout. (`d19c44af`, `a02b8e61`)

## Key changes
- New Stripe webhook endpoint with signature verification
- Session middleware now uses atomic read-write for token refresh
- HTTP client retry defaults changed from 3 to 5 with 2s base delay

---
*AI-reviewed summary of 5 commits*

Saved to: ~/daily-summaries/2025-03-11.md

daily-summary --week — Weekly overview

Shows the week at a glance with TLDR per day. Pick a day to drill in.

$ daily-summary --week

Week of 2025-03-10:

  1) 2025-03-10 (Mon)  — Set up CI pipeline and added integration test suite
  2) 2025-03-11 (Tue)  — Shipped Stripe subscription renewal handling
  3) 2025-03-12 (Wed)  — Added user notification preferences API
  4) 2025-03-13 (Thu)  — no commits
  5) 2025-03-14 (Fri)  — Fixed email template rendering on mobile
  6) 2025-03-15 (Sat)  — no commits
  7) 2025-03-16 (Sun)  — no commits

Pick a day to view (or Enter to cancel):

daily-summary --list — Browse saved summaries

Interactive picker to view any past summary.

$ daily-summary --list

Saved summaries:

  1) 2025-03-12  — Daily Summary — Wednesday, March 12 2025
  2) 2025-03-11  — Daily Summary — Tuesday, March 11 2025
  3) 2025-03-10  — Daily Summary — Monday, March 10 2025

Pick a number (or Enter to cancel):

daily-summary --setup — First-time setup

$ daily-summary --setup

=== daily-summary setup ===

Git author email(s) — comma-separated for multiple people.
Email(s) [you@company.com]:

Enter parent directories containing git repos (one per line, empty line to finish):
Example: ~/Projects
> ~/Projects
  Added: ~/Projects
> ~/Work
  Added: ~/Work
>

Output directory [~/daily-summaries]:

Config saved to ~/.daily-summary.conf
Run 'daily-summary' to test it.

Config

Located at ~/.daily-summary.conf:

# Git author email(s) to filter commits
# For multiple authors: AUTHOR="alice@co.com,bob@co.com"
AUTHOR="you@company.com"

# Where to save markdown summaries
OUTPUT_DIR="~/daily-summaries"

# Render markdown in terminal using glow (optional)
USE_GLOW=false

# Parent directories to scan for git repos
SCAN_DIRS=(
  "~/Projects"
  "~/Work"
)

Option	Default	Description
AUTHOR	—	Git author email(s), comma-separated for teams
OUTPUT_DIR	~/daily-summaries	Where markdown files are saved
USE_GLOW	false	Render markdown with glow
SCAN_DIRS	—	Parent directories to scan for git repos

Noise filtering

These commit patterns are automatically excluded:

• WIP, wip, fixup
• update plan, update tracker
• Stash entries (WIP on, index on)

Requirements

• git + bash
• Optional: claude CLI for --ai mode
• Optional: glow for rendered markdown — brew install glow
• Works on macOS and Linux

Keywords

git log summary · daily standup tool · git activity report · commit summary CLI · developer daily journal · what did I work on today · git-standup alternative · multi-repo git log · AI commit summary · Claude Code CLI

License

MIT