This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady .

What I Built

You take a few days off. Come back, pull the latest changes, and suddenly there are 40 new commits.

Great. Now you have to figure out what everyone did before you can even start working.

Sure, there's git log , git diff , and a bunch of other commands to help. But reading through commits, figuring out which changes belong together, and checking if anything important broke isn't exactly how I want to spend my morning.

So I built RepoSloth , an open-source AI-powered CLI that helps developers catch up on their repositories without digging through every commit.

It reads your Git history, groups related changes, explains what happened, and highlights things you might want to review.

Think of it as a quick briefing from a teammate who actually read all the commits.

Except this one runs locally and doesn't need an API key.

Here's what it can do:

Catch up on recent changes.…