git

Git rules for writing commit messages in the Conventional Commits format, such as `fix(scope): correct problem`. They also define how to inspect changes, commit files, and push only when asked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when preparing a commit: inspect status and diffs, write a valid type and description, stage the intended files, commit with the required format, and verify the final status.
Why use it?
They make commit history predictable and avoid copying inconsistent or outdated styles from existing commits. The workflow also reduces the chance of committing the wrong files or pushing without permission.

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/igorkasyanchuk/active_storage_validations/git
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/igorkasyanchuk/active_storage_validations

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 1,341 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 1,341 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.01341 $0.01341
Opus 5 $0.00671 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00268 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00134 $0.00134

Measured yesterday against content hash f23c15be585c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git 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.mdc · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git — Commit Messages

When creating a commit, follow this rule — not ad-hoc styles from git log history.

Commit workflow

When the user asks to commit (or commit and push):

  1. Message format — use this file only. Do not run git log or infer style from existing commits (many are merge commits or legacy types).
  2. Inspect changes — in parallel: git status, git diff (and git diff --staged if needed).
  3. Draft — write subject (+ optional body) per the rules below; validate against Validations.
  4. Commit — stage relevant files, commit via HEREDOC, then git status to confirm.
  5. Push — only when explicitly requested.

Format: Conventional Commits

<type>(<scope>): <brief description>
Part Rule
<type> Required. One of: feat, fix, docs, style, refactor, test, chore, perf, build, ci
<scope> Optional. Area affected — see Scope glossary
<description> Required. Imperative mood, lowercase start, ≤ 72 characters, no trailing punctuation

Subject line rules

  • Imperative mood — write as a command: add, fix, remove, update — not added, fixes, removing
  • Length — keep the subject ≤ 72 characters (Git and GitHub truncate longer lines)
  • No trailing punctuation — no period, exclamation mark, etc.

Examples

feat(matchers): add #except_on option for Rails :except_on
fix(content_type): reject spoofed mime types without file magic
refactor(attachable): drop obsolete download_chunk Rails version check
test(validators): cover size equal_to boundary
docs(readme): document form_builder accept inference
chore(deps): bump marcel to 1.0
ci(gemfiles): pin sqlite3 >= 2.9 for Ruby 4.0

Validations

Before committing, verify the subject line:

  1. Pattern^(feat|fix|docs|style|refactor|test|chore|perf|build|ci)(\(.+\))?: .+$
  2. Imperative, ≤ 72 chars, no trailing punctuation
  3. Optional body — blank line, then paragraphs with more context

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 lines

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 · 126 lines · 1,341 tokens per session scan A f23c15be585c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository igorkasyanchuk/active_storage_validations (1,191 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,341 tokens to every session, about $0.0067 per session on Opus 5. 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 2026-08-30.