My team and I used to share weekly changelogs manually: backend, frontend, and design updates written into a team channel. It was useful for keeping everyone aligned, but it took effort to turn commit-level work into something product/design could follow.

Since we were already experimenting with AI, we decided to automate it. The result is *Briefly* – a lightweight CLI that:

- Collects commits from your repo - Summarizes them with OpenAI - Outputs a clean `briefly-summary.md` - Publishes directly to Discord via webhook

The workflow is simple: briefly setup briefly generate briefly publish

It’s available on npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@jmscarpa/briefly

Roadmap includes: aliases (`briefly g`), multilingual summaries, relative dates (`--since 7d|1w|2m`), dry-run for CI, and custom prompts.

We’ve been using it internally and it’s saving us ~30 minutes per week while producing more consistent updates.

Would love feedback from the community — especially around CI integration ideas or formats beyond Discord.