git-code-prep

A preparation checklist for getting code changes ready for a Git commit. A commit is a saved set of changes in a project's history.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review modified files, plan commits, update changelogs or project documentation, run initial checks, and stage files.
Why use it?
It helps identify what changed, possible breaking changes, affected dependencies, needed documentation, and the right way to split and describe commits before saving them.

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/oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts/git-code-prep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 2,351 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 $0.02351
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.01175
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00470
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00235

Measured yesterday against content hash 439dbd59da60, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-code-prep 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/prompts/git/git-code-prep.mdc · 298 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 298 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Code Preparation Guide

This prompt handles the preparation phase of git workflow - analyzing changes, updating documentation, and planning commits before actual commit execution.

🎯 PREPARATION OBJECTIVES:

  1. ANALYZE code changes and determine commit strategy
  2. UPDATE documentation including changelogs and project docs
  3. PLAN commit structure and messaging strategy
  4. RUN initial quality checks and precommit hooks
  5. STAGE appropriate files for commit execution

📋 PREPARATION PROCESS:

STEP 1: Change Analysis & Assessment

Comprehensive Change Review:
  • Analyze scope of changes - Review all modified, added, and deleted files
  • Categorize changes by type - Features, bug fixes, refactoring, documentation, etc.
  • Identify breaking changes - API modifications, interface changes, deprecated features
  • Assess user impact - How changes affect functionality and user experience
  • Determine version impact - Major, minor, or patch version bump needed
Change Impact Assessment:
  • Files modified - List all changed files with brief description of changes
  • Dependencies affected - External packages, internal modules, configuration files
  • Database implications - Schema changes, migration requirements, data impact
  • API surface changes - New endpoints, modified responses, deprecated routes
  • Performance implications - Bundle size impact, runtime performance changes

STEP 2: Commit Strategy Planning

Commit Structure Decision:
  • Single commit criteria - Small, cohesive changes related to single concern
  • Multiple commit criteria - Mixed change types, large features, independent fixes
  • Logical grouping - Group related changes into coherent commit units
  • Dependency ordering - Plan commit sequence to maintain working state
Commit Planning Matrix:
Commit 1: [Type] - [Brief description]
  ├── Files: [list of files]
  ├── Scope: [what this commit covers]
  └── Message: [planned commit message]

Commit 2: [Type] - [Brief description]  
  ├── Files: [list of files]
  ├── Scope: [what this commit covers]
  └── Message: [planned commit message]

Read the full file on GitHub · 298 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 · 298 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 439dbd59da60

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-code-prep is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository oakensoul/nextjs-cursor-prompts (4 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 2,351 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.