Commit

Commit

Goals

• Produce commits that reflect actual code changes and session intent.
• Follow conventional-commit style (type prefix, ≤72-char subject, wrapped body).
• Include both summary and rationale in the body.

Steps

1. Inspect: git status, git diff, git diff --staged.
2. Stage intended changes: git add -A (after confirming scope).
3. Sanity-check newly added files. Skip build artifacts, logs, temp files. If anything looks accidentally staged, fix the index before committing.
4. Choose conventional type: feat(scope): ..., fix(scope): ..., refactor(scope): ..., chore(scope): ..., docs(scope): ..., test(scope): ....
5. Subject in imperative mood, ≤72 chars, no trailing period.
6. Body sections (wrapped at 72):
   • Summary — what changed
   • Rationale — why
   • Tests — what you ran (or "not run (reason)")
7. Use a heredoc with git commit -F so newlines are literal.

Template

<type>(<scope>): <short summary>

Summary:
- <what changed>

Rationale:
- <why>

Tests:
- <command or "not run (reason)">

Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Commands

git status
git diff --staged
git add -A
git commit -F /tmp/commit_message.md

Guardrails

• Don't commit if the staged diff disagrees with the message — fix one or the other.
• Don't run git commit --amend on commits already pushed to a shared branch.
• Don't git reset --hard without explicit confirmation.