standupgen

A standup written from memory drifts toward whatever felt biggest, and quietly drops the small fixes that actually shipped. standupgen takes the opposite approach: you hand it the activity records — git commits and pull request activity — and it drafts the standup from exactly those records, nothing added and nothing embellished. The result is factual, local, and yours to edit before you paste it anywhere.

The rendered standup is short Markdown with up to three sections:

• Done — every commit you supplied, in the order you supplied them, each shown with the first 7 characters of its hash, followed by the merged pull requests sorted by number.

• In progress — pull requests whose state is opened or updated, sorted by number, each tagged with its state.

• Closed without merging — pull requests whose state is closed, sorted by number.

A section with nothing in it is left out entirely. When there is no activity at all, the standup is just the heading and "No recorded activity.". Alongside the text, the result carries counts — commits, merged, in progress, closed — so the numbers and the prose always agree.

An optional author filter narrows the standup to one person: only commits and pull requests whose own author field is present and matches exactly are included, and the counts are taken over that filtered set. Records without an author never survive the filter. The heading label defaults to "Yesterday" and can be set with date_label.

Malformed input — a list that is not an array, an entry that is not an object, a missing, empty, or non-string hash, subject, or title, a pull request number that is missing, not an integer, below 1, or duplicated, a state outside opened / updated / merged / closed, an empty author or date label — is a validation error naming the offending path (for example pull_requests[1].number must be an integer >= 1), and no partial standup is produced. The computation is pure and local: no network, no configuration, and no repository is read — only the records you pass in.

CLI

npx @reneturcios/standupgen generate --input args.json
npx @reneturcios/standupgen --version

args.json contains the full arguments object:

{
  "date_label": "Yesterday",
  "commits": [
    { "hash": "a1b2c3d4e5", "subject": "Fix retry backoff", "author": "rene" },
    { "hash": "f6e7d8c9b0", "subject": "Add export button", "author": "rene" }
  ],
  "pull_requests": [
    { "number": 42, "title": "Retry backoff", "state": "merged", "author": "rene" },
    { "number": 43, "title": "Dark mode", "state": "opened", "author": "rene" },
    { "number": 40, "title": "Old experiment", "state": "closed", "author": "rene" }
  ]
}

commits and pull_requests are both optional and default to empty. The output object is printed as JSON:

{
  "standup": "## Standup — Yesterday\n\n### Done\n- Fix retry backoff (a1b2c3d)\n- Add export button (f6e7d8c)\n- Merged #42: Retry backoff\n\n### In progress\n- #43: Dark mode (opened)\n\n### Closed without merging\n- #40: Old experiment",
  "counts": { "commits": 2, "merged": 1, "in_progress": 1, "closed": 1 }
}

Rendered, the standup reads:

Related MCP server: standup-mcp

Standup — Yesterday

Done

• Fix retry backoff (a1b2c3d)

• Add export button (f6e7d8c)

• Merged #42: Retry backoff

In progress

• #43: Dark mode (opened)

Closed without merging

• #40: Old experiment

Exit codes: 0 on success, 1 on a runtime error (including an unreadable or invalid input file, or invalid input), 2 on a usage error.

MCP server

npx -y @reneturcios/standupgen mcp

MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "standupgen": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "@reneturcios/standupgen", "mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Tools

• generate_standup — Draft a factual standup from git commits and pull request activity.

  • commits (array, optional, default []) — commits as {hash, subject, author?} objects; hash is rendered as its first 7 characters

  • pull_requests (array, optional, default []) — pull requests as {number, title, state, author?} objects; number is a positive integer unique across the set and state is one of opened, updated, merged, closed

  • author (string, optional) — when given, only this author's commits and pull requests are included (exact match); records without an author are excluded

  • date_label (string, optional, default "Yesterday") — label for the standup heading

  Returns {standup, counts} where counts is {commits, merged, in_progress, closed} over the filtered sets.

Docker

docker run -i ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/standupgen
docker run --rm -v "$PWD:/w" ghcr.io/cloudcorprecords/standupgen generate --input /w/args.json

Development

npm install
npm run build   # tsc -> dist/
npm test        # tsx --test test/*.test.ts (pure local, no network)
npm run dev     # run the CLI from source

License

MIT — Copyright (c) 2026 Rene Turcios