winget install --id=var-gg.gitwink -e gitwink is a tray-resident, read-only Git glance tool. It shows a unified timeline of recent commit activity across all of your local Git repositories, so you can wink at what changed, where, and by whom, without opening a heavyweight editor. Built for the AI-agent era, when code changes land across many repositories at once.
> Tray-resident, read-only git glance for the AI-agent era.
Status: v0.4 — usable. Cold-start friendly tray app.
gitwink lives in your system tray. Click it to glance at recent commit activity across all your local repos. It is not a git client — it cannot commit, push, merge, or modify anything. Read-only by design.
Windows — Microsoft Store:
Get gitwink on the Microsoft Store →
Or via WinGet:
winget install gitwink
The Store build is signed by Microsoft during certification, so no SmartScreen prompt appears. The Store also owns updates — gitwink's in-app updater stays out of the way for this channel.
Windows — Scoop:
scoop bucket add var-gg https://github.com/var-gg/scoop-bucket
scoop install gitwink
Update later with scoop update gitwink. Scoop installs the build by
extraction, so the SmartScreen prompt never appears.
Or download directly:
.exe (NSIS installer) or .msi.dmg (universal)Direct downloads are unsigned for now, so Windows SmartScreen / macOS Gatekeeper will warn on first launch — the release notes have the bypass steps. Prefer to build it yourself? See Development.
Different install channels carry their own trust path:
.exe / .msi) — currently unsigned. gitwink
participates in the SignPath Foundation free
code-signing program for open-source software (see the
Code signing policy); the SignPath
certificate will sign these artefacts once approved.I used to live in VS Code with GitLens pinned. The branch graph, heat-mapped blame, the lens annotations — that was my git workflow. Then 2025 happened. With Cursor, Claude Code, and Codex doing the actual editing, the editor itself became optional. The only thing dragging me back was GitLens.
That felt wasteful — booting an entire IDE just to peek at commit history. The agent runs the git commands now; I only need to sanity-check the result, occasionally, when something looks off. gitwink is the smallest possible tool for that loop — a tray icon that expands into a glance, hands the commit off as AI context, and gets out of the way.
No commit. No push. No merge. If I need git surgery, I tell the agent.
The 0.5-second confirm loop:
agent commits → tray click → inline expand → "Copy as AI context"
→ paste into Claude/Codex
→ "did the agent do this right?"
Ctrl+Shift+G (Windows) / Cmd+Shift+G (macOS) to
summon or dismiss the panel from anywhere. Change it by editing
panel_hotkey in settings.json (right-click the tray icon →
"Open settings file…") to any Tauri shortcut spec, e.g.
"Alt+Space", "Ctrl+Alt+Backquote". Restart gitwink to apply.source, Documents,
Projects, Code, Dev, repos, Desktop, every non-system drive on
Windows / ~/Projects, ~/Code, ~/Documents, ~/Developer on macOS).
Results cached in SQLite at %APPDATA%\gg.var.gitwink\cache.db.● commit · ◆ merge · ★ tagged. Branch label
badges for commits that aren't on the currently checked-out branch.+/− line counts, bin + size for
binaries, GitLens-style filename emphasis.c key or button — produces a markdown block
with the commit, file list, and (if small enough) full diff, ready
to paste into Claude / Codex / Cursor.For the "wait, did the agent actually do that?" moments. Click any commit and a separate window opens — full file sidebar, side-by-side diff with synchronised scroll, inline image preview for binary assets, and a singleton that remembers position, size, and maximised state.
Tauri 2 · Rust · React + TypeScript · git2 · SQLite · custom SVG DAG
drawer · no telemetry, no phone-home — the only network access is an
opt-out check for updates.
pnpm install
pnpm tauri dev
Requires: Node 20+, Rust stable (msvc toolchain on Windows), Visual C++ Build Tools (Windows) or Xcode CLT (macOS).