Tools: Free Intent-based Commits

Ghost is a CLI that flips the git workflow: instead of committing code, you commit prompts. An AI coding agent generates the artifacts; the commit captures both the intent and the output. Your git history becomes a chain of prompts + their results.

Supports claude, gemini, codex, and opencode — swap agents per-commit or set a default.

Every ghost commit answers: what did I want to happen here? Not what bytes changed. Each commit is reproducible from its prompt — if the code breaks, you have the exact instruction that generated it. The git log reads like a design document, not a diff summary.

Each of those is a ghost commit. Behind each message is an AI that turned words into working code, and a session ID that ties the output back to the generation.

Code is the artifact, intent is the source of truth.

When you read a traditional git log, you see what changed. With ghost, you see prompts — the human decision that triggered the change. A year from now when LLMs are more amazing you can replay the git log and generate a better version.

Every commit is reproducible. The prompt is preserved with some extra attributes about which model and agent was used. You can re-run any commit against a fresh checkout to see what Claude generates from the same instruction.

The log becomes a design document. Read ghost log top-to-bottom and you'll see the intent behind every architectural decision, not just the code that resulted from it.

Diffs show what the AI decided; messages show what you asked for. The two together give you full context: the goal and the implementation, inseparably linked.

The integration test spins up a temp git repo, runs a full ghost workflow including generating and compiling a C program, and verifies all metadata fields.

Source: HackerNews