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Sabahattin Kalkan
Sabahattin Kalkan

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Stop switching to GitHub.com for standup — I built a CLI for that

#github #opensource #cli #productivity

Every morning it's the same routine.

Open GitHub. Filter by author. Scroll through commits. Switch repos. Try
to remember what you did yesterday. Piece together a standup from five
different tabs.

Or worse — you're juggling three different repos, two orgs, and a
contractor's fork, and the GitHub web UI has no idea you want to see all
of it at once.

I built gpulse to fix this.

What it does

gpulse is a CLI toolkit that brings the GitHub insights you actually need
into your terminal. Six focused commands, zero browser required.

npm install -g @sabahattinkalkan/gpulse
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_your_token_here
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gpulse standup

What did you actually do since yesterday?

gpulse standup           # last 24 hours, all repos
gpulse standup -d 3      # last 3 days
gpulse standup -u alice  # another user's activity
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Output:
Standup for @sabahattinkalkan
Since Mar 15, 2026 12:00 AM
Commits
a1b2c3d feat: add user authentication (org/app)
d4e5f6a fix: resolve memory leak in worker (org/api)
Pull Requests

42 Add OAuth2 support (org/app)

Reviews

41 Refactor database layer (org/api)

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Summary: 2 commits, 2 PRs, 1 review

This is what I actually read out at standup. Copy, paste, done.

gpulse health

Repo health score (A–F). Checks README, LICENSE, CI, stale issues.

gpulse health vercel/next.js
# Score: 90/100 (A)
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gpulse review

PR dashboard — review requests, assigned PRs, your open PRs.

gpulse review
# Review Requested (2)
#   #87 Add rate limiting middleware (org/api)
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gpulse changelog

Auto-generate changelog from git tags using Conventional Commits.

gpulse changelog -o CHANGELOG.md
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gpulse digest

Weekly repo digest — commits, issues, merged PRs, contributors.

gpulse digest -d 7
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Why terminal?

Context switching kills flow. gpulse keeps you in the terminal where
you're already working. Also useful in SSH sessions and CI scripts.

Setup 

npm install -g @sabahattinkalkan/gpulse
export GITHUB_TOKEN=ghp_...
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No config files. No YAML. Just the token and go.

Try it

MIT licensed. What would you add to a GitHub CLI toolkit? Drop it in the comments.

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