relgen v0.0.31

Code reviews, release summaries, PR descriptions, labeling, and more—on autopilot. 🤖

relgen is an AI-powered developer tool that streamlines repo management through automated code reviews, change summaries, and issue organization.

Getting started is simple - just install with npm/pnpm/yarn and run a single command. No complex configuration required, though you can customize everything from templates to LLM providers if you want to.

Features

• 🤖 AI-powered content generation:
  • Automated PR reviews against custom rules
  • Release summaries with customizable perspectives (marketing, engineering, product, leadership)
  • Smart PR descriptions with complexity analysis
  • Automated issue and PR labeling
  • Contribution attribution and analysis
• 🔄 Smart GitHub integration for PR and issue context
• 🎯 Linear integration for ticket tracking
• ⚡ Support for multiple LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Deepseek)
• 🛠️ Customizable templates and prompts
• 📦 Scriptable with bash (via the relgen CLI) or typescript (via @relgen/core)

Installation

npm install -g relgen
# or
pnpm add -g relgen
# or
yarn global add relgen

CLI Usage

# Review a PR
relgen remote pr review owner/repo 123 --rule "don't use the database library directly in route handlers, write a data mapper"

# Generate release notes
relgen remote release describe owner/repo

# Analyze contributions in a release
relgen remote release ascribe owner/repo --from v1.0.0 --to v1.1.0

# Generate PR description
relgen remote pr describe owner/repo 123

# Auto-label a PR
relgen remote pr label owner/repo 456

# Auto-label an issue
relgen remote issue label owner/repo 789

# Analyze repository contributions
relgen remote ascribe owner/repo --range "last month"

# Use different LLM providers
relgen remote release describe owner/repo --provider anthropic

# Write results back to GitHub
relgen remote pr describe owner/repo 123 --write pr
relgen remote pr label owner/repo 456 --write add

# Use custom templates/prompts
relgen remote release describe owner/repo --template custom.md
relgen remote pr describe owner/repo 123 --prompt custom-prompt.txt

# Get help
relgen --help

Configuration

Relgen can be configured through environment variables or a .relgen.json file. Any required variables that aren't provided will be requested via CLI prompt.

Environment Variables

# Set up your LLM provider
export OPENAI_API_KEY="your-api-key"
# or for Anthropic
export ANTHROPIC_API_KEY="your-api-key"
# or for Deepseek
export DEEPSEEK_API_KEY="your-api-key"

# GitHub access
export GITHUB_TOKEN="your-github-token"

# Linear integration
export LINEAR_API_KEY="your-linear-token"

Configuration File

Create a .relgen.json in your project root:

{
  "$schema": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zlalvani/relgen/refs/heads/main/relgen-config-schema.json",
  "llm": {
    "provider": "openai",
    "model": "gpt-4",
    "apiKey": "${OPENAI_API_KEY}"
  },
  "integrations": {
    "github": {
      "token": "${GITHUB_TOKEN}"
    },
    "linear": {
      "token": "${LINEAR_API_KEY}" 
    }
  }
}

See the JSON schema for all config options.

Github Action

name: Relgen
on:
  pull_request:
    types: [opened, synchronize, reopened]

jobs:
  relgen:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      pull-requests: write
      issues: write
    steps:
      - name: Checkout Repo
        uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: zlalvani/relgen-action@v1
        with:
          github-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          llm-key: ${{ secrets.OPENAI_API_KEY }} # or ANTHROPIC_API_KEY or DEEPSEEK_API_KEY
          llm-provider: openai # or anthropic or deepseek
          llm-model: gpt-4o-mini # or claude-3-sonnet-20240229 or deepseek-chat etc

For more documentation on the github action, please see its README.

Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a pull request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Make your changes
4. Add a changeset to document your changes:

   pnpm changeset

   This will prompt you to:
   • Select which packages you've modified
   • Choose a semver bump type (major/minor/patch)
   • Provide a description of your changes
5. Commit your changes and changeset:

   git add .
   git commit -m 'feat: Add some amazing feature'

6. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
7. Open a PR

The changeset will be automatically used to update the package version and changelog when your PR is merged.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Support

If you have any questions or need help, please:

• Open an issue
• Start a GitHub Discussion