commit-message-format

commit-message-format is a cursor rule for Cursor from paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules. It costs 0 tokens per session (147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A commit-message format for recording code changes. It defines change types such as fixes, features, tests, documentation, and refactoring, with optional scope and details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing Git commit messages for fixes, features, builds, tests, documentation, refactoring, and other project changes.
Why use it?
It makes the purpose of each Git commit clear and consistent. That helps people scan project history and understand what a change affects.

Cursor rule for Cursor

Written for Cursor: a Cursor rule (.mdc).

Good fit Use it when writing Git commit messages for fixes, features, builds, tests…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add rules/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/commit-message-format
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 147 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00147
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00073
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 3d ago against content hash 719c523aa8f3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-message-format 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 3d ago.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

1/framework_rules/rules/elixir-engineer-guidelines-cursorrules-prompt-file/commit-message-format.mdc · 22 lines

What it actually says


description: Applies commit message standards to all files in the project. globs: */

  • Use the following commit message format: [optional scope]:

    [optional body]

    [optional footer(s)]

    Where:

    type: One of the following: fix, feat, build, chore, ci, docs, perf, refactor, revert, style, test

    scope (optional): A noun describing a section of the codebase (e.g., fluxcd, deployment).

    description: A brief summary of the change in present tense.

    body (optional): A more detailed explanation of the change.

    footer (optional): One or more footers in the specified format.

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. 3d ago First seen · 22 lines · 147 tokens per session scan A 719c523aa8f3

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commit-message-format is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules (27 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 147 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 2026-09-03.