Commit digest

Commit Digest

On a regular cadence, review recent commits from tracked external repositories (and optional Atom/RSS feeds), identify improvements applicable to the current project, implement the relevant ones as separate PRs, and log everything you skip — so the history is searchable and each run never re-logs the same suggestion twice.

Configuration

Override defaults via .claude/settings.local.json "env":

Variable	Default	Meaning
COMMIT_DIGEST_REPOS	nateberkopec/dotfiles	Space-separated owner/repo list to watch
COMMIT_DIGEST_FEEDS	https://epoch-research.github.io/ai-productivity-digest/feed.xml	Space-separated Atom/RSS feed URLs to include
COMMIT_DIGEST_DAYS	7	Look-back window in days
COMMIT_DIGEST_LOG_BRANCH	claude/skipped-log	Branch that accumulates skipped-suggestions.md

Procedure

1. Fetch sources

Git repos — for each entry in COMMIT_DIGEST_REPOS:

git clone --depth 50 https://github.com/<owner>/<repo> /tmp/commit-digest/<repo>
git -C /tmp/commit-digest/<repo> log --since="${DAYS} days ago" -p

If the clone is blocked by network policy, fall back to WebFetch on https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/commits/main and individual diff pages at https://github.com/<owner>/<repo>/commit/<sha>.

Atom/RSS feeds — for each URL in COMMIT_DIGEST_FEEDS, fetch and parse items whose <published> or <updated> date falls within the look-back window.

2. Evaluate each change

For every commit or feed item, assess three things:

• Relevance — does it address a skill, hook, workflow, or tooling area that this project covers?
• Novelty — is it already present? Check skills, hooks, README, and the existing skipped-suggestions.md log on COMMIT_DIGEST_LOG_BRANCH.
• Applicability — does it generalise beyond the author's personal environment?

Classify each as one of: Implement | Deferred | Rejected | Duplicate | Out of scope | Problem (source unreachable).

Ruby-specific (Bundler, RubyGems, gem management, Rails tooling) and JS/TS-specific changes count as in-scope for a polyglot project — don't skip them just because they aren't generic.

3. Implement improvements

For each Implement decision, open a separate PR:

1. Create a feature branch from main:

   git checkout main && git pull origin main
   git checkout -b feat/<short-descriptive-name>
   

2. Make the change (new skill, hook update, doc improvement, etc.), following the target repo's own conventions — read its CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md for version-bump rules, doc-sync checklists, and where things live. Don't assume a layout; the digest runs against whatever project is current.
3. Verify the change the way the target repo verifies itself — run its CI-mirroring checks (its pre-commit hook / hk, its test suite, its linters). Let the repo's own config tell you what to run; a green local run before pushing is the bar.
4. Commit, push, and open a PR with a clear title and description referencing the source commit SHA or feed item URL.

4. Log everything to the skipped-log branch

Every run must update the log — even when nothing was skipped:

git fetch origin "$COMMIT_DIGEST_LOG_BRANCH" 2>/dev/null \
  && git checkout "$COMMIT_DIGEST_LOG_BRANCH" \
  || git checkout -b "$COMMIT_DIGEST_LOG_BRANCH"

Read the existing skipped-suggestions.md on that branch first. Dedup against the entire file — do not append any row whose Suggestion text is already present anywhere in the history.

Append a dated section:

## YYYY-MM-DD

| Suggestion | Source | Decision | Reasoning |
|---|---|---|---|
| … | commit `af41383` or feed item URL | Rejected / Deferred / Duplicate / Out of scope | one-line reason |

• If nothing was skipped, add one row that says so and links to every PR opened this run.
• If a source was unreachable, add a row with Decision Problem.

Commit and push to COMMIT_DIGEST_LOG_BRANCH.

5. Open / update the skipped-log PR

If no PR from COMMIT_DIGEST_LOG_BRANCH to main is open yet, open one with title chore: skipped-suggestions log.

If the PR already exists, the push updates it automatically. Then add a PR comment summarising this run so it surfaces in notifications:

Commit-digest run — YYYY-MM-DD Repos: <list> · Feeds: <list or none> · Window: <N> days Commits / items reviewed: <N> · PRs opened: <links or "none"> · Rows logged: <N>

Output

Report to the user at the end of each run:

• Repos and feeds scanned, window used
• PRs opened (with links), or "none"
• Count of suggestions logged to the skipped-log branch

Scheduling

Register as a recurring weekly remote agent via the [[schedule]] skill (CronCreate). A Monday-morning cadence pairs naturally with [[weekly-automation-review]] — one reviews the local repo's own history, the other reviews external repos for ideas to pull in. Each run appends to the skipped-suggestions log, so the history compounds over time.