standup

Generate a standup report from your recent git activity. Five shell gatherers (yesterday's commits, today's commits, current branch, uncommitted changes, recently active branches) feed a prompt that returns the three classic standup fields: yesterday, today, blockers.

The kcup

name = "standup"
description = "Generate a standup report from recent git activity"

[[gather]]
id = "yesterday_commits"
shell = "git log --since='yesterday.midnight' --until='today.midnight' --author=\"$(git config user.email)\" --pretty=format:'%h %s' --all"

[[gather]]
id = "today_commits"
shell = "git log --since='today.midnight' --author=\"$(git config user.email)\" --pretty=format:'%h %s' --all"

[[gather]]
id = "current_branch"
shell = "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"

[[gather]]
id = "status"
shell = "git status --short"

[[gather]]
id = "recent_branches"
shell = "git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --count=5 --format='%(refname:short) %(committerdate:relative)' refs/heads/"

[prompt]
system = """
You generate concise standup reports from git activity. Be factual and specific — reference actual commit messages and files. Do not invent work that isn't evidenced in the data. If yesterday had no commits, say so. Keep each field to 1-3 short sentences.
"""
user = """
Yesterday's commits (by me):
{{yesterday_commits}}

Today's commits so far (by me):
{{today_commits}}

Current branch: {{current_branch}}

Uncommitted changes:
{{status}}

Recently active branches:
{{recent_branches}}

Generate a standup report.
"""

[output]
schema = { yesterday = "string", today = "string", blockers = "string" }

How it breaks down

Gatherers

[[gather]]
id = "yesterday_commits"
shell = "git log --since='yesterday.midnight' --until='today.midnight' --author=\"$(git config user.email)\" --pretty=format:'%h %s' --all"

--all picks up commits across every branch (so work-in-progress branches you never merged still show up). --author="$(git config user.email)" filters to your own commits using whatever email your local git is configured with — no hardcoding. Note the escaped double quotes around the $(...) so the variable expansion survives into the shell.

[[gather]]
id = "today_commits"
shell = "git log --since='today.midnight' --author=\"$(git config user.email)\" --pretty=format:'%h %s' --all"

Same pattern, narrowed to today.

[[gather]]
id = "current_branch"
shell = "git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD"

[[gather]]
id = "status"
shell = "git status --short"

[[gather]]
id = "recent_branches"
shell = "git for-each-ref --sort=-committerdate --count=5 --format='%(refname:short) %(committerdate:relative)' refs/heads/"

current_branch and status together describe what you're sitting on right now — useful for the "today / blockers" framing. recent_branches lists the five most recently touched branches so the model can spot context-switches you might want to mention.

Prompt + schema

[prompt]
system = """
You generate concise standup reports from git activity. Be factual and specific — reference actual commit messages and files. Do not invent work that isn't evidenced in the data. If yesterday had no commits, say so. Keep each field to 1-3 short sentences.
"""

[output]
schema = { yesterday = "string", today = "string", blockers = "string" }

The system message is doing real work here: it explicitly forbids hallucination ("Do not invent work that isn't evidenced in the data") and constrains length (1–3 short sentences per field). Without those constraints the model tends to pad.

Run it

developerpod standup

Sample output

▶ brewing with Anthropic (claude-sonnet-4-6) — key from ANTHROPIC_API_KEY
▶ loading examples/standup.kcup.toml
▶ pod standup — Generate a standup report from recent git activity (5 gatherers)
▣ standup
  blockers: None — current branch is clean and pushed; no uncommitted work in flight.
  today:    Started on the docs site scaffold (mdBook + GitHub Actions deploy).
  yesterday: Shipped 0.2.0 to crates.io. Auto-detect rewrite landed (9 providers,
             53 env var names) and per-provider default models refreshed to
             current April 2026 IDs.

Variations to try

• Add merged PRs: gh pr list --author @me --state merged --limit 5 --json title,mergedAt — feed it as a sixth gatherer if you have gh installed.
• Cross-repo: replace the git log calls with a script that loops over a list of repo paths.
• Slack-ready: change the system message to "format the result as a single Slack-ready message under 200 words" and collapse the schema to { message = "string" }.