Sprout 🌱

Sprout is a simple and lightweight CLI tool with LLM tools integration to help you with boring tasks and git flow around them.

You can ask in natural language show me all the bugs created in past three weeks that are about emails and sprout will show you the list of issues that match your query, after selecting the issue you want to work on, Sprout will create a new branch based on task data and checkout to it. Later, when you finish your work, you can commit your changes and Sprout will summarize the changes and create commit for you.

Sprout was designed with Local first approach, so it doesn't store any data in the cloud or communicate with any external services. You can run own LLM (like Ollama) and use it with Sprout to have full control over your data. Nevertheless, it supports also OpenAi apis if you want to use them.

Sprout is highly customizable, you can change the way it interacts with Jira, LLMs, Git, and how it renders tasks.

Since LLMs are not perfect, Sprout is designed to be interactive, so you can always correct the generated data (Human in the loop).

Installation

First, to have access to sprout cli everywhere, you need to install it globally:

npm install -g @dawiidio/sprout

Simple configuration

In your project directory, you need to initialize sprout:

sprout init

This will create sprout.config.ts and .sprout.env files in your project directory

example sprout.config.ts file looks like this:

import { 
    SproutConfigFunction, 
    JiraCli,
    Ollama,
    GitCli,
    GenericTaskRenderer,
    OpenAi,
} from '@dawiidio/sprout';

export const getConfig: SproutConfigFunction = async () => {
    return {
        projectCli: new JiraCli(),
        llmCli: {
            code: new Ollama('dolphincoder:15b-starcoder2-q5_K_M'),
            text: new OpenAi({}, {
                model: 'gpt-4',
                max_tokens: 100,
            }),
        },
        vcsCli: new GitCli(),
        taskRenderer: new GenericTaskRenderer(),
    }
}

You can leave it as it is, or customize it to your needs. If don't have Ollama, or OpenAi api key, you can change them in the config.

in sprout.env file you can set environment variables for your project, for example:

JIRA_API_KEY=jira-api-key
JIRA_EMAIL=[email protected]
JIRA_DEFAULT_PROJECT_KEY=ABC
JIRA_URL=https://your-domain.atlassian.net
OPENAI_API_KEY=sk-api-key

Usage

As you can see, Sprout is very simple in use, it consists of only two major commands:

open command

Open command is used to fetch tasks from the project management tool (like Jira), you will be asked to provide a query in natural language, which later will be translated into platform specific query language (like JQL for Jira). You can always correct the generated query if it's not perfect, or you can provide your own query, you can in loop improve the query until you get the desired results.

After selecting the task you want to work on, Sprout will create a new branch based on task data, and checkout to it.

When you run sprout open (or sprout o) command, you will be asked to select the action you want to perform:

? Select action
❯ 🌱 Create new query
  ♥️ Select from favourites

While creating new query, you can save it as favourite, so you can reuse it later and skip generation process.

This is example data flow for open command:

? Select action 🌱 Create new query
? Describe what issues you want to work on: show me all the issues created in past three weeks
✔ Query generated!
? Current query: created >= startOfDay(-21) AND created < startOfDay() AND project = "MYP" Ok
✔ Tasks fetched!
? Select issue 2) 10002  create animation for posts view (Reporter: [email protected], Priority: Medium)
? Select change type: fix
✔ Branch name generated
? Branch name looks okay? [click tab to edit] fix/MYP-10002_create_animation_for_posts_view
✔ Branch created

commit command

Commit command is used to commit your changes, you will be asked to provide a change type and commit message, if you didn't disable in the config file useLlmToSummarizeChanges option in the vcsCli, Sprout will try to summarize the changes using LLM, and you can always correct the generated message.

GitCli has by default enabled also addBeforeCommit and pushAfterCommit options, so Sprout will add all changes before commit and push them to your repo after commit.

Advanced configuration

If you want to customize Sprout even more, you can create your own classes that implement ProjectCli, LlmCli, VcsCli, TaskRenderer interfaces and use them in the config.

• ProjectCli - is responsible for fetching tasks from the project management tool (like Jira)
• LlmCli - is responsible for communicating with LLMs
• VcsCli - is responsible for communicating with version control system (Git), creating branches, commits, etc.
• TaskRenderer - is responsible for rendering tasks fetched by ProjectCli in the console

Implementations configuration

apiKey: string; email: string; url: string; defaultProjectKey: string; filters: FilterField[]; fields: TaskField[];

JiraCli

Default values for JiraCli noted in uppercase are taken from .sprout.env file.

name	type	default value	required	description
apiKey	string	JIRA_API_KEY	✅	Jira API key
email	string	JIRA_EMAIL	✅	your email address that you use in Jira
url	bool	JIRA_URL	✅	url to your jira
defaultProjectKey	string	JIRA_DEFAULT_PROJECT_KEY	✅	project key
filters	FilterField[]	[]	❌	Available filters to use when translating natural language query to Jql
fields	TaskField[]	[]	❌	Available fields on fetched from Jira issues

GitCli

name	type	default value	required	description
mainBranchName	string	main	❌	main (master) branch name
addBeforeCommit	bool	bool	❌	if true, adds edited files before commit
updateMainBeforeCheckout	bool	true	❌	if true, updates main branch name before checkout when creating new branch
pushAfterCommit	bool	true	❌	if true, push changes after commit
useLlmToSummarizeChanges	bool	true	❌	if true, sends git diff to llm to summarize changes

OpenAi

name	type	default value	required	description
modelOptions	ChatCompletionCreateParamsNonStreaming	null	✅	OpenAi model options (see openai npm package to learn more)
clientOptions	AzureClientOptions	{}	❌	OpenAi client options (see openai npm package to learn more). Api key will be automatically added from .sprout.env

Ollama

name	type	default value	required	description
model	string	null	✅	Ollama model name
modelOptions	ChatCompletionCreateParamsNonStreaming	{}	❌	Ollama options, for more see ollama npm package

Customizing Sprout

I will try to explain more, for now you must check the source code to see how it works in details. In general, I tried to create Sprout in a way that it's easy to extend and customize. If you want to customize something, you can just extend after the default implementation and override the methods you want to change. For example, if you want to change the Prompt that Sprout sends to create branch name, you want to override getBranchNamePrompt method in GitCli class.

import { 
    GitCli,
    Prompt,
    GenericTask,
    // ... 
} from '@dawiidio/sprout';

interface MyPromptVariables {
    task: string;
    branchNamingRules: string;
    changeType: ChangeType;
}

// Sprout uses Mustache to render prompts, so you can use variables in the prompt
class MyPrompt extends Prompt<MyPromptVariables> {
    readonly type = 'text'; // determines which llm will be used to generate the prompt. There are two prompt types: 'text' and 'code'
    readonly prompt = `
Your job is to create a branch name based on provided data.
The task data is represented by the following JSON object:
{{ task }}
The change type is: {{ changeType }}.
The branch naming rules are:
{{ branchNamingRules }}

Description part should be always in lower case.
Branch name should not be longer than 100 characters.
You need to propose a branch name that will be used to create a new branch. Return only the branch name, no more text or explanation.
 `;
}

export class MyGitCli extends GitCli {
    getBranchNamePrompt(task: GenericTask, changeType: ChangeType): IssueToBranchNamePrompt {
        return new MyPrompt({
            task: JSON.stringify(task, null, 2),
            branchNamingRules: '...',
            changeType,
        });
    }
}

export const getConfig: SproutConfigFunction = async () => {
    return {
        // ...
        vcsCli: new MyGitCli(),
        // ...
    }
}

Supported tools and services

List of currently supported tools and services, and the ones that are planned to be supported in the future.

Project management tools:

• Jira
• Trello
• GitHub issues
• Gitlab issues
• Bitbucket issues
• Monday

LLMs:

• Ollama
• OpenAi
• Claude

Version control systems:

• Git
• Mercurial
• SVN
• Perforce

Known issues

when you use OpenAi api, you can get an error like this:

openai/_shims/node-types.d.ts(4,21): error TS1479: The current file is a CommonJS module whose imports will produce 'require' calls; however, the referenced file is an ECMAScript module and cannot be imported with 'require'. Consider writing a dynamic 'import("node-fetch")' call instead.

I'll try to fix it in the future (or you can try ;)), but for now, you can just ignore it, config will compile anyway.