Git Commit Guidelines

Related Skills: See standalone-commits for making each commit reviewable and auditable and for ordering multi-file changes into dependency-ordered waves. See pull-request for PR titles, descriptions, changelog entries, issue references, and merge guidance.

Use This For

Use this skill to inspect diffs, split commits, stage specific files, write commit messages, and manage branches.

If the task asks for a PR title, PR body, changelog entry, issue link, username verification, CODEOWNERS note, or merge strategy, use pull-request.

When to Apply This Skill

Use this pattern when you need to:

• Write commit messages that follow conventional commit rules.
• Check whether a staged commit is reviewable as a standalone unit.
• Decide commit type/scope formatting and breaking-change notation.
• Create or switch branches.
• Review commit text for anti-patterns like AI/tool attribution.