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A Python based CLI and GitHub Action to use Open AI or Azure Open AI models to review contents of pull requests.

How to install CLI

First, install the package via pip:

pip install gpt-review

GPT API credentials

You will need to provide an OpenAI API key to use this CLI tool. In order of precedence, it will check the following methods:

  1. Presence of a context file at azure.yaml or wherever CONTEXT_FILE points to. See azure.yaml.template for an example.

  2. AZURE_OPENAI_API_URL and AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY to connect to an Azure OpenAI API:

    export AZURE_OPENAI_API=<your azure api url>
    export AZURE_OPENAI_API_KEY=<your azure key>
  3. OPENAI_API_KEY for direct use of the OpenAI API

    export OPENAI_API_KEY=<your openai key>
  4. AZURE_KEY_VAULT_URL to use Azure Key Vault. Put secrets for the url at azure-open-ai and the API Key azure-openai-key, then run:

    export AZURE_KEY_VAULT_URL=https://<keyvault_name>.vault.azure.net/
    az login

Main Commands

To show help information about available commands and their usage, run:

gpt --help

To display the current version of this CLI tool, run:

gpt --version

Here are the main commands for using this CLI tool:

1. Ask a Question

To submit a question to GPT and receive an answer, use the following format:

gpt ask "What is the capital of France?"

You can customize your request using various options like maximum tokens (--max-tokens), temperature (--temperature), top-p value (--top-p), frequency penalty (--frequency-penalty), presence penalty (--presence-penalty), etc.

Ask a Question about a File

To submit a question to GPT with a file and receive an answer, use the following format:

gpt ask --files WordDocument.docx "Summarize the contents of this document."

2. Review a PR

To review a PR, use the following format:

gpt github review \
    --access-token $GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN \
    --pull-request $PULL_REQUEST_NUMBER \
    --repository $REPOSITORY_NAME

3. Generate a git commit message with GPT

To generate a git commit message with GPT after having added the files, use the following format:

git add .

gpt git commit

For more detailed information on each command and its options, run:

gpt COMMAND --help

Replace COMMAND with one of the main commands listed above (e.g., 'ask').

Developer Setup

To install the package in development mode, with additional packages for testing, run the following command:

pip install -e .[test]