Ape commit

Skill arpitbbhayani/ape-skills/ape-commit

Skills for apes like us, so we can do our jobs better and make our lives easier.

Install

npx -y skills add arpitbbhayani/ape-skills --skill ape-commit

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One thing to look at

21 stars21 stars. Stars are a popularity signal and not a quality one, but at this level it is likely that nobody has read this closely except its author, and you would be relying on your own review.

What its author says it does

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Defines how to write and format git commit messages. Use this skill whenever the user asks you to write, draft, suggest, or format a git commit message, summarize changes into a commit, or help stage and describe code changes. Trigger even for casual requests like "write me a commit for this" or "what should my commit say".

SKILL.md

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Commit Message Style

Format

<short summary line>

- <change>
- <change>
- <change>

Rules

Summary line (first line)

One line only
Short and crisp -- aim for under 72 characters
Use the imperative mood: "Add feature" not "Added feature" or "Adds feature"
No trailing period
Describe what the commit does, not how

Blank line

Always one blank line between the summary and the bullet list
Never omit this blank line

Bullet points

Each bullet describes a single, specific change
Short and crisp -- one line per bullet
Start each bullet with a verb in the imperative mood (Add, Fix, Remove, Update, Rename, Move, Extract, etc.)
No trailing periods
No fluff or filler words

Never include

Co-author lines (no Co-authored-by: trailer)
Generated by Claude or any AI attribution
Redundant context already obvious from the diff

Examples

Good:

Add user authentication middleware

- Add JWT validation to protected routes
- Return 401 on missing or expired token
- Extract auth logic into separate middleware file
- Add unit tests for token validation

Fix null pointer crash on empty cart checkout

- Guard against null items array before totalling
- Add early return when cart has no items
- Log warning when checkout attempted on empty cart

Bad (do not do this):

Updated some stuff and fixed a few things that were broken and also added
some new features to the codebase

- I made some changes to the auth file because it was crashing
- Also fixed the cart thing
- Co-authored-by: Claude <[email protected]>