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brew install cocogitto

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Conventional Commits toolbox

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Commands and aliases

cog

history

Project history and usage

Cocogitto is a Rust CLI and GitOps toolbox for Conventional Commits and Semantic Versioning. It packages commit-message creation, commit-history checking, changelog generation, version bumping, hooks, and CI integrations into the `cog` command.

Project history

The GitHub repository was created in September 2020, and crates.io shows the `cocogitto` crate created later that month. The project README describes it as the Conventional Commits toolbox.

Early changelog entries in 2020 show rapid construction of core features: commit creation, verification, logs, changelog generation, bumping, hooks, and the move to `cog.toml` configuration. Later releases expanded CI/CD, Docker, monorepo workflows, signing support, and generated configuration reference docs.

Adoption history

Cocogitto is distributed through Cargo and several OS package managers. crates.io lists more than 200 thousand downloads, while the input records packaging in Homebrew, apk, Debian, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, Scoop, and zypper.

The official docs also advertise installation through Cargo, Arch Linux, NixOS, Void Linux, Homebrew, and Chocolatey, showing that the project deliberately supports both Rust-native and OS package-manager installation paths.

How it is used

The main binary is `cog`. Users can run `cog commit` to create Conventional Commit messages, `cog check` to validate history, `cog changelog` to generate changelogs, and `cog bump` to derive semantic versions from commit history.

Configuration lives in a repository-root `cog.toml`. The official config reference describes settings for version generation, changelog handling, commit conventions, hooks, and monorepo support.

Why package nerds care

Cocogitto is a package-nerd tool about packages: it automates the release metadata loop around commits, changelogs, SemVer, tags, and CI. It is especially interesting for repos that want release automation without adopting a large hosted release platform.

Its distribution story is also typical of modern Rust CLIs: a Cargo crate is the canonical package, but downstream OS packages make the same single binary available to non-Rust users.

Timeline

2020: Repository created and first rapid series of 0.x changelog releases published.
2020: `cog.toml` configuration name introduced in the 0.32.1 era.
2021: 1.0.0 released.
2023: 6.0.0 adds Docker image support and other release-flow changes.
2024: 6.2.0 migrates docs to VitePress and expands configuration docs.
2026: 7.0.0 adds monorepo dependency resolver work and package updates.

Related projects

Conventional Commits and SemVer are the standards Cocogitto is built around.
cocogitto-action and cocogitto-bot are related GitHub integrations linked from the official docs.
Adjacent changelog/release tools include git-cliff, release-plz, semantic-release, and commitlint.

Sources

security posture

Risk level: green

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals.

Risk classifier

green risk · low confidence · appliance

Why

narrow executable package without higher-risk signals

Signals

metadata:no-higher-risk-signals

Install behavior

No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

local files

Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.

Configuration files

Config paths the tool may read or write during local use.

Unix: cog.toml

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`cog`	executable	indexed executable	Discovered from the local executable index.

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-08-03

manager version7.0.0

manager updated2026-06-22

local dataunknown

upstreamnot available

latest detectednot detected

okNo freshness warnings were generated.

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	brew:cocogitto
Version	7.0.0
Package manager	Homebrew
Homepage	https://docs.cocogitto.io/
Repository	https://github.com/cocogitto/cocogitto
Last updated	2026-06-22T14:03:03-07:00
Pulse	updated
Bottle	not recorded
Service	none declared

package graph

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source trail

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Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub.

combined/cocogitto.yml

Used sources

Geiger risk classifier
Nucleus package database
curated configuration and credential file locations
curated package history
pkgdb category and tag curation

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