A CLI coding assistant. It is targeted towards mundane tasks such as writing commit messages, generating docstrings etc.

You can install the package using below command. Make sure you have Python and pip installed on your system.

    - pip install sarathi

• To use this package, you need to set up some environment variables. The steps are mentioned below.

  • The default setting of the package is to use OpenAI services which requires an API key. To get the key, you need to sign up for an account on the OpenAI website. Once you have your API key, you can set it in your environment variables as mentioned below

      export OPENAI_API_KEY=keyvalue
    

  • In case you do not want to use OpenAI services, this package should work with any endpoint which accepts requests in OpenAI schema format. For example you can use it local LLM model endpoints like Ollama by setting below environment variables

      export OPENAI_API_KEY=ollama
      export OPENAI_ENDPOINT_URL=https://localhost:11434/v1/chat/completions
      export OPENAI_MODEL_NAME=codellama:7b
    

Sarathi provides a convenient commands to generate commit messages for git commits locally. Below are the steps you want to follow

• Stage the files you want to commit

• Run sarathi git autocommit.

  • this command will automatically analyze your staged changes
  • generate a commit message via OPEN AI, show the generated message to you,
  • if you confirm, will commit your changes to the repository with the generated message.

• Run sarathi git gencommit.

  • this command will automatically analyze your staged changes,
  • generate a commit message via OPEN AI, and commit the changes automatically.
  • It will then run git commit --amend for you to edit the generated commit message.

You can generate docstrings for your python code using commands such as below

• Run sarathi docstrgen -f src/sarathi/code/codetasks.py. This command analyzes the methods in the file provided in the argument, and generates docstrings for functions.
• Run sarathi docstrgen -d src/sarathi/. This command analyzes the methods in all files present in the directory provided in the argument, and generates docstrings for function.

- https://dev.to/taikedz/ive-parked-my-side-projects-3o62
- https://github.com/lightningorb/autocommit