meat

meat is an open-source Go tool from boldsoftware. You point it at a commit or git-style range and a model abridges the patch into a reading diff: the important conceptual changes kept, the filler dropped. Huge diffs are split at file and hunk boundaries, abridged chunk by chunk, then merged so one multi-megabyte agent commit still becomes a single reviewable document.

Agents now ship large commits full of correct-but-boring churn. Founders still have to review critical systems, but style, imports, and nil checks waste the pass. meat compresses the diff to algorithm and architecture choices so human review time goes where it actually matters.

Install with go install meat.dev/cmd/meat@latest, then run meat on the latest commit or pass git-looking selectors for the range you care about. It is slow on big patches, so the authors recommend wiring an agent to pre-process commits in your devtools. Output is a shorter diff meant for reading, not for applying.

Not another coding agent and not a linter. It assumes models already write decent code and solves the human bottleneck: what is worth reading when the agent just changed half the tree.

• Public demo available

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