standup-sloth: a local LLM drafts your standup, and a citation check keeps it honest

Description and use

standup-sloth is a local CLI that automatically drafts daily standup notes from the last 24 hours of commits, ensuring each bullet cites a real commit and rejecting fabricated or missing citations.

Problem

Writing daily standup notes from recent commits is tedious and error‑prone, especially when a language model invents citations or omits real commits.

Outcome

The tool reduces standup preparation from manual reading to a single command, automatically ensuring each bullet cites a real commit and flagging any fabricated or missing citations.

Workflow

• 1. Run standup-sloth /path/to/repo > standup.md
• 2. The CLI reads the last 24 hours of commits (or a custom period with --since), optional merged PRs via gh with --prs, and filters by author with --author
• 3. The commit list is sent to a local Ollama model (default Qwen2.5:0.5B, can switch with --model)
• 4. The model outputs a standup draft in markdown, each bullet ending with a commit hash or PR reference
• 5. A citation checker validates each citation against the actual commit history; invalid or missing citations are rejected and listed under Rejected, while skipped commits are listed under Not covered
• 6. The developer reviews the draft, edits as needed, and publishes the standup

Evidence

standup-sloth is a small Go CLI that reads the last 24 hours of commits in a repo, hands them to a small open-weight model running locally in Ollama, and gets back a standup draft in markdown.

Source

Every bullet must cite the commit it came from, and a citation check throws out any line that cannot point at a real commit.

Source

In a real run, the model wrote "Implemented unit test for the add() method [#12]" citing a PR that does not exist - the check rejected it.

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