Commitarium

Commitarium came out of my own way of working. I had moved more and more toward what I think of as plain-language coding with review: describing a change, letting coding agents implement it, and reviewing each slice before it lands. The workflow around that was tedious, so I built a tool to make the process smoother, more structured, and easier to control.

It is a desktop app you download and run locally. Once Docker is set up, you authenticate Claude and Codex, import a Git repository, and create a work order. A lead agent clarifies the goal, plans the change, and implements it while an independent reviewer challenges both the plan and the code. Human approval gates can be placed wherever you want them, or bounded work can be allowed to progress further through the workflow automatically.

Everything runs locally inside Docker containers, with a built-in Forgejo instance keeping a durable audit trail of branches, pull requests, reviews, comments, and changes. Once the work has been approved, Commitarium can synchronize the result back into your local repository as a single clean commit. Publishing that commit to GitHub, GitLab, or another remote remains a separate, explicit action.

I designed the system and made the architecture decisions: a Go coordinator owns the workflow state machine and restart recovery, Tauri 2 provides the native desktop boundary around the React interface, and isolated worker containers run Claude Code and Codex. The agents never receive your upstream Git credentials or access to the host Docker socket; privileged host-side operations such as repository synchronization and remote publishing stay behind a narrow trusted boundary.

Commitarium itself was developed using the same philosophy it is designed to support. I used Claude Code and Codex as part of a controlled development workflow where changes were broken into small slices, reviewed, and accepted before being integrated.

Commitarium is open source under the Apache 2.0 license and is still in prerelease. It is functional and usable today, with installers available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, while installer signing and notarization, broader platform testing, and additional product polish are still in progress.