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Write Commit Message

Drafts a Conventional Commits message in English imperative mood for staged changes. Use when the user says "commit", "commit this" or "write the commit message".

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File contents

Read git diff --staged before writing anything. The message describes what is staged, nothing else.

Format

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

<body>
  • type: feat, fix, refactor, test, docs, ci, build, perf or chore. Append ! for a breaking change: feat!: ….
  • scope: optional, the area touched, e.g. validator or ci.
  • subject: English, imperative mood (add, not added), lowercase start, no trailing period, at most 72 characters including type and scope.
  • body: optional. Explain why, not what the diff already shows. Wrap at 72 characters.

One commit, one change

When the staged diff holds unrelated changes, propose how to split it before writing a message.

Examples

feat(api): add dashboard delete endpoints
fix(ci): pin action versions
feat!: relicense from MIT to GPL-3.0-or-later

64x-lunicorn/skills/tree/main/skills/engineering/write-commit-message commit 11452e4969

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