Commit Sensei is a Telegram-based discipline and motivation bot designed to force one simple habit: write commits to your personal GitHub projects every single day.
No scrolling. No excuses. Just execution.
Commit Sensei solves a common developer problem:
- Starting personal projects and abandoning them
- Going days (or weeks) without commits
- Relying on motivation instead of systems
The bot only counts commits made to repositories you personally own.
- Collaborator commits → ignored
- Organization repos → ignored
- Only owner-level repositories count
This design intentionally pushes developers to grow their own portfolio, not someone else's.
- User joins the Telegram bot
- Connects their GitHub account
- Sets a daily commit target
Examples:- 7 commits/day → 49 commits/week
- 12 commits/day → 84 commits/week
- The bot tracks activity daily and weekly
Everything is automated. No manual input. No cheating.
If a user fails to reach the daily target:
- Missing commits are recorded as penalty
- Penalties are transferred to the next week
- Penalties are evenly distributed across 7 days
- Any remainder is added to Monday
- Daily target: 12 commits\
- Commits written today: 5\
- Missing commits: 7
Next week: - 7 ÷ 7 = +1 commit/day - New daily target: 13 commits/day
Penalties stack until fully repaid.
No mercy. No resets.
- Today's required commit count
- Includes penalties (if any)
- Commits written so far today
- Remaining commits to hit the target
- 4 hours left until day ends
- Praise if target is completed
- Warning if still behind
- Daily activity summary
- Success or failure confirmation
- Penalties calculated and stored
- Sent to:
- the user directly
- or a configured Telegram channel
- Total commits for the week
- Total penalties accumulated
- Motivation for next week
- System & database reset for the new cycle
- Only repository owner commits count
- Collaboration commits are ignored
- All 7 days matter
- Missing even one day triggers penalties
This is not a streak toy.
This is a commitment contract.
- Zero fake activity
- Pure GitHub data
- Real accountability
- Portfolio-driven growth
- Discipline over motivation
Commit Sensei moves you from: > "I'll code when I feel like it"
to
> "I must code today."
- Telegram Bot API
- GitHub REST & GraphQL APIs
- TypeScript
- Node.js / Bun
- Cron-based scheduler
- Custom penalty engine
- Streak tracking
- Public leaderboards
- Web dashboard
- Repo-level analytics
- AI-based commit quality insights
Commit Sensei is not a friendly reminder.
It is a daily enforcement system for developers who want real progress.
If you are serious about your personal projects ---
Commit Sensei will not let you disappear.