You end up with a lot of small dumb commits, and you have to do so manually between nearly every LLM interaction.

I do this but i certainly see the appeal of something better

no, you don't 'have to do so manually'. all agents can run 'git commit' for you. if you end up with too many commits for your taste; squash on merge, or before push; `git reset --soft HEAD~3; git commit -m "Squashed 3 commits"`