Commit practices
Use when planning, reviewing, or writing git commits. Keep commits atomic and small, use English commit messages, describe concrete functionality, and follow Conventional Commits.From its SKILL.md
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Commit Practices
Use this skill when preparing a commit or deciding whether a change should be split.
- One commit, one coherent change that can be reviewed and tested on its own.
- Split unrelated fixes, refactors, docs, and tests unless the test or doc change belongs directly to the same behavior change.
- Keep commits small. If the subject needs "and", it is probably two commits.
- Write commit messages in English.
- Use the Conventional Commits format:
<type>[optional scope]: <description>. - Prefer clear types such as
feat,fix,docs,refactor,test,chore,build,ci,perf,style, andrevert. - Write the description as a concise statement of concrete functionality or behavior. Prefer
feat(auth): add session timeout warningoverwip,more updates,address feedback, orcontinue work. - Use an optional body when the why or the impact is not obvious from the subject alone.
- Mark breaking changes explicitly with
!after the type or scope, and describe them in aBREAKING CHANGE:footer when relevant. - Before committing, check
git diff --stagedand confirm the staged change matches a single sentence and the chosen type still fits that sentence.
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Gives 2 of the 12 instructions most pr commit review skills give in 271 tokens
Counted across 888 of the 1,342 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-07
- Use conventional commits formathere, and in 127 of 888, across 115 files
- Keep subject line under 72 charactersin 62 of 888, across 48 files
- Delete branches after mergein 51 of 888, across 38 files
- Use imperative mood in subject linein 51 of 888, across 42 files
- Use imperative mood in commit messagesin 44 of 888
- Verify directory is ignored before creating worktreein 43 of 888, across 12 files
- Generate a conventional commit messagein 43 of 888
- Add unignored worktree directories to gitignorein 42 of 888, across 10 files
- Make atomic commitsin 39 of 888, across 27 files
- Run tests before committingin 36 of 888, across 25 files
- Verify clean test baselinein 35 of 888, across 9 files
- Split unrelated changes into separate commitshere, and in 35 of 888, across 30 files
Said here and by no other author read
- describe concrete functionality in the subject
Grouped from the skills themselves: near-identical wordings counted once, and counted by distinct author, so one author publishing three of these counts once. Length counted with cl100k_base; the agent that loads this file may tokenize it differently.