git-commit-standards

Rules for writing consistent Git commit messages. Git is a tool that records changes to code, and a commit message briefly describes one recorded change.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to check that commits use prefixes such as fix: or feat:, followed by a lowercase summary and a space, with the summary kept under the stated length.
Why use it?
A shared format makes project history easier to scan, search, and understand, while limiting message length keeps summaries concise.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/abderrahimghazali/cursor-rules/git-commit-standards
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/abderrahimghazali/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 411 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00411
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00205
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00082
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00041

Measured yesterday against content hash 428620d179ee, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-commit-standards scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.cursor/rules/git-commit-standards.mdc · 51 lines

What it actually says

Git Commit Standards

Ensures consistent Git commit messages.

actions:

  • type: enforce conditions:

    More precise regex to ensure prefix is followed by colon and space

    • pattern: "^(?!fix|feat|perf|docs|style|refactor|test|chore): " message: "Use a commit message prefix followed by colon and space (fix:, feat:, etc.)."

    Check for uppercase after the prefix

    • pattern: "^(fix|feat|perf|docs|style|refactor|test|chore): [A-Z]" message: "First word after prefix should be lowercase."

    More precise length check that excludes the prefix from the count

    • pattern: "^(fix|feat|perf|docs|style|refactor|test|chore): .{46,}" message: "Keep commit message content (excluding prefix) under 46 characters."

    Ensure there's a space after the colon

    • pattern: "^(fix|feat|perf|docs|style|refactor|test|chore):(?! )" message: "Include a space after the colon in prefix."
  • type: suggest message: | Recommended commit format:

    • "fix: resolved bug in user authentication"
    • "feat: added new search functionality"
    • "docs: updated installation guide"
    • "style: fixed button alignment"
    • "refactor: simplified login logic"
    • "test: added unit tests for auth"
    • "chore: updated dependencies"
    • "perf: optimized database queries"

metadata: priority: high version: 1.1

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 51 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 428620d179ee

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-commit-standards is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository abderrahimghazali/cursor-rules (2 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 411 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.