diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 88c8ab7c..05c8e495 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
 
       - name: Build and test the `mcl` command
-        run: nix develop -c sh -c "dub test --root packages/mcl -- -e 'fetchJson|(coda\.)|nix.run|nix.build'"
+        run: nix develop -c sh -c "dub test --root packages/mcl --compiler ldc2 -- -e 'fetchJson|(coda\.)|nix.run|nix.build'"
 
   ci:
     uses: ./.github/workflows/reusable-flake-checks-ci-matrix.yml
diff --git a/packages/mcl/dub.sdl b/packages/mcl/dub.sdl
index 011a343f..72702f88 100644
--- a/packages/mcl/dub.sdl
+++ b/packages/mcl/dub.sdl
@@ -15,8 +15,6 @@ buildType "unittest-debug" {
 }
 
 dflags "-preview=in"
-dflags "-preview=shortenedMethods"
-dflags "-defaultlib=libphobos2.so" platform="dmd"
 lflags "-fuse-ld=gold" platform="dmd"
 dflags "-mcpu=generic" platform="ldc"
 dflags "-mcpu=baseline" platform="dmd"
diff --git a/packages/mcl/src/main.d b/packages/mcl/src/main.d
index b6a12789..8b841d14 100644
--- a/packages/mcl/src/main.d
+++ b/packages/mcl/src/main.d
@@ -16,7 +16,8 @@ alias supportedCommands = imported!`std.traits`.AliasSeq!(
     cmds.shard_matrix,
     cmds.host_info,
     cmds.ci,
-    cmds.machine_create
+    cmds.machine_create,
+    cmds.dev_commit
 );
 
 int main(string[] args)
diff --git a/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/commands/dev_commit.d b/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/commands/dev_commit.d
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38b37c12
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/commands/dev_commit.d
@@ -0,0 +1,285 @@
+module mcl.commands.dev_commit;
+
+import std.algorithm : any, cache, canFind, filter, find, map, sort, startsWith, uniq;
+import std.array : appender, array, assocArray, front, join, replace, split;
+import std.conv : to;
+import std.file : dirEntries, exists, readText, SpanMode;
+import std.json : JSONOptions, parseJSON;
+import std.parallelism : parallel, taskPool;
+import std.path : globMatch, stripExtension;
+import std.process : ProcessPipes, wait;
+import std.regex : ctRegex, match, Regex, regex, replaceAll, replaceFirst;
+import std.stdio : writeln;
+import std.string : indexOf, startsWith, strip;
+import std.typecons : tuple;
+import mcl.utils.env : parseEnv, optional;
+import mcl.utils.process : execute;
+import mcl.utils.path : rootDir;
+import mcl.utils.log : prompt;
+import mcl.utils.json : fromJSON;
+
+string[] modifiedFiles = [];
+static const enum CommitType
+{
+    feat,
+    fix,
+    refactor,
+    ci,
+    docs,
+    style,
+    config,
+    build,
+    chore,
+    perf,
+    test
+}
+
+struct Config
+{
+    struct Exclude
+    {
+        string[] startsWith = [];
+        string[] contains = [".gitkeep"];
+        string[] equals = [
+            "src", "packages", "pkg", "pkgs", "apps", "libs", "modules",
+            "services", ".git"
+        ];
+    }
+
+    struct Scope
+    {
+        string[string] replaceAll = [
+            "(src|packages|pkg|pkgs|apps|libs|modules|services)/": "",
+            "mcl/mcl/": "mcl/",
+            "mcl/commands/": "mcl/",
+            "(docs.*/)?(pages/)?docs/": "docs/"
+        ];
+        string[string] replaceFirst = [
+            "^docs/": "",
+            "^nix/": "",
+            "/(default|main|index|start|app|init|__init__|entry|package)$": ""
+        ];
+    }
+
+    struct Type
+    {
+        CommitType[string] equals = [
+            ".gitignore": CommitType.config,
+        ];
+        CommitType[string] contains;
+        CommitType[string] startsWith = [
+            "docs": CommitType.docs,
+            ".github/": CommitType.ci,
+            ".gitlab/": CommitType.ci,
+
+        ];
+    }
+
+    Exclude exclude;
+    Scope _scope;
+    Type type;
+}
+
+static Config config;
+
+void initGitDiff()
+{
+    auto status = execute("git diff --name-only --cached", false).split("\n")
+        .map!(a => a.strip)
+        .cache
+        .filter!((a) {
+            if (config.exclude.equals.canFind(a))
+                return false;
+            else if (config.exclude.contains.any!(c => a.indexOf(c) != -1))
+                return false;
+            else if (config.exclude.startsWith.any!(c => a.startsWith(c)))
+                return false;
+            else
+                return true;
+        })
+        .array;
+    if (status.length)
+    {
+        modifiedFiles = status
+            .map!(a => stripExtension(a.strip)).array;
+        writeln("Modified files (staged): ");
+        writeln(status.map!(f => "> " ~ f).array.join("\n"));
+        writeln("\n");
+    }
+}
+
+CommitType guessType()
+{
+    if (modifiedFiles.length)
+    {
+        foreach (string file; modifiedFiles)
+        {
+            auto contains = config.type.contains.keys.find!(k => file.indexOf(k) != -1);
+            auto startsWith = config.type.startsWith.keys.find!(k => file.startsWith(k));
+
+            if (config.type.equals.keys.canFind(file))
+            {
+                return config.type.equals[file];
+            }
+            else if (contains.length)
+            {
+                return config.type.contains[contains.front];
+            }
+            else if (startsWith.length)
+            {
+                return config.type.startsWith[startsWith.front];
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    return CommitType.feat;
+}
+
+string[] guessScope()
+{
+
+    Regex!char[string] replaceAllRegexes = config._scope.replaceAll.keys.map!(
+        key => tuple(key, regex(key, "g"))).assocArray;
+    Regex!char[string] replaceFirstRegexes = config._scope.replaceFirst.keys.map!(
+        key => tuple(key, regex(key, "g"))).assocArray;
+
+    auto files = modifiedFiles
+        .map!((a) {
+            foreach (i, value; config._scope.replaceAll)
+            {
+                a = a.replaceAll(replaceAllRegexes[i], value);
+            }
+            foreach (i, value; config._scope.replaceFirst)
+            {
+                a = a.replaceFirst(replaceFirstRegexes[i], value);
+            }
+            return a;
+        }
+        )
+        .array
+        .sort
+        .uniq
+        .array;
+    return files;
+}
+
+static immutable auto botRegex = ctRegex!(`(\[bot\]|dependabot|actions-bot)`);
+
+string[] getAuthors()
+{
+    auto authors = execute("git log --format='%aN' | sort -u", false).split("\n");
+    return authors
+        .filter!(a => !match(a, botRegex))
+        .map!(a => a.strip)
+        .array ~ [""];
+}
+
+struct CommitParams
+{
+    CommitType type;
+    string _scope;
+    string shortDescription;
+    string description;
+    bool isBreaking;
+    string breaking;
+    bool isIssue;
+    int issue;
+    string[] coAuthors;
+}
+
+string createCommitMessage(CommitParams params)
+{
+    auto strBuilder = appender!string;
+    strBuilder.put(params.type.to!string);
+    strBuilder.put("(");
+    strBuilder.put(params._scope);
+    strBuilder.put("): ");
+    strBuilder.put(params.shortDescription);
+    if (params.description.length)
+    {
+        strBuilder.put("\n\n");
+        strBuilder.put(params.description);
+    }
+    if (params.isBreaking)
+    {
+        strBuilder.put("\n\nBREAKING CHANGE:");
+        strBuilder.put(params.breaking);
+
+    }
+    if (params.isIssue)
+    {
+        strBuilder.put("\n\nCloses #");
+        strBuilder.put(params.issue.to!string);
+    }
+    if (params.coAuthors.length)
+    {
+        strBuilder.put("\n\nCo-authored-by: ");
+        strBuilder.put(params.coAuthors.join(", "));
+    }
+    return strBuilder.toString();
+}
+
+CommitParams promptCommitParams(bool automatic)
+{
+    CommitParams commitParams;
+    commitParams.type = automatic ? guessType
+        : prompt!CommitType("Commit type (suggestion: " ~ guessType.to!string ~ ")");
+    auto scopeSuggestion = guessScope;
+    commitParams._scope = automatic ? scopeSuggestion.front
+        : prompt!string(
+            "Scope (suggestion: " ~ scopeSuggestion.join(", ") ~ ")");
+    commitParams.shortDescription = automatic ? "" : prompt!string("Short Description");
+    commitParams.description = automatic ? "" : prompt!string("Description");
+    commitParams.isBreaking = automatic ? false : prompt!bool("Breaking change");
+    commitParams.breaking = commitParams.isBreaking ? prompt!string("Breaking change description")
+        : "";
+    commitParams.isIssue = automatic ? false : prompt!bool(
+        "Does this commit relate to an existing issue");
+    if (commitParams.isIssue)
+    {
+        commitParams.issue = prompt!int("Issue number");
+    }
+    commitParams.coAuthors = automatic ? [] : prompt!string(
+        "Co-authors (comma separated)", getAuthors).split(",").map!(a => a.strip)
+        .cache
+        .filter!(a => a != "")
+        .array;
+    return commitParams;
+}
+
+export void dev_commit()
+{
+    Params params = parseEnv!Params;
+
+    string mclFile = rootDir ~ "/.mcl.json";
+    if (mclFile.exists)
+        config = parseJSON(readText(mclFile), JSONOptions.none).fromJSON!Config;
+
+    initGitDiff();
+
+    CommitParams commitParams = promptCommitParams(params.automatic);
+
+    writeln();
+    string commitMessage = createCommitMessage(commitParams);
+    writeln(commitMessage);
+    writeln();
+
+    bool commit = prompt!bool("Commit?");
+    if (commit)
+    {
+        auto pipes = execute!ProcessPipes("git commit -F -", false);
+        pipes.stdin.writeln(commitMessage);
+        pipes.stdin.flush();
+        pipes.stdin.close();
+        writeln(pipes.stdout.byLineCopy.array.join("\n"));
+        writeln(pipes.stderr.byLineCopy.array.join("\n"));
+        wait(pipes.pid);
+    }
+}
+
+struct Params
+{
+    @optional() bool automatic = false;
+    void setup()
+    {
+    }
+}
diff --git a/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/commands/package.d b/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/commands/package.d
index a02a3201..aec9db86 100644
--- a/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/commands/package.d
+++ b/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/commands/package.d
@@ -7,3 +7,4 @@ public import mcl.commands.shard_matrix : shard_matrix;
 public import mcl.commands.ci : ci;
 public import mcl.commands.host_info : host_info;
 public import mcl.commands.machine_create : machine_create;
+public import mcl.commands.dev_commit : dev_commit;
diff --git a/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/utils/log.d b/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/utils/log.d
index de27d93d..5af2d835 100644
--- a/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/utils/log.d
+++ b/packages/mcl/src/src/mcl/utils/log.d
@@ -1,8 +1,25 @@
 module mcl.utils.log;
 
-T prompt(T)(string message, T[] options = [], string input = "unfilled")
+template MaybeArray(T)
 {
-    import std.stdio : write, writeln, readln;
+    static if (is(immutable(T) == immutable(char[])))
+    {
+        alias MaybeArray = T[];
+    }
+    else static if (is(T == U[], U))
+    {
+        alias MaybeArray = T;
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        alias MaybeArray = T[];
+    }
+
+}
+
+T prompt(T)(string message, MaybeArray!T options = [], string input = "unfilled")
+{
+    import std.stdio : write, writeln, readln, stdin;
     import std.string : strip;
     import std.algorithm : canFind, map;
     import std.conv : to;
@@ -30,7 +47,7 @@ T prompt(T)(string message, T[] options = [], string input = "unfilled")
     {
         input = readln().strip();
     }
-    if (options.length && !options.canFind(input.to!T))
+    if (options.length && !(options.to!(string[])).canFind(input))
     {
         writeln("Invalid input.");
         return prompt!T(message, options);
diff --git a/shells/default.nix b/shells/default.nix
index dd0031bd..e4f1cb63 100644
--- a/shells/default.nix
+++ b/shells/default.nix
@@ -41,11 +41,13 @@
             ]
             ++ pkgs.lib.optionals (pkgs.stdenv.system == "x86_64-linux") [
               inputs'.dlang-nix.packages.dmd
+              inputs'.dlang-nix.packages."ldc-binary-1_38_0"
             ];
 
           shellHook =
             ''
               export REPO_ROOT="$PWD"
+              export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:${pkgs.curl.out}/lib"
               figlet -t "Metacraft Nixos Modules"
             ''
             + config.pre-commit.installationScript;