commit-message-guidelines

A set of rules for writing short conventional Git commit commands. Conventional commits use a standard type, such as fix or feat, and may include a scope describing the affected area.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing Git commits so each command follows the required lowercase format, optional scope, and 60-character limit.
Why use it?
It removes guesswork when naming commits and keeps the message consistent, brief, and ready to paste into a terminal.

Cursor rule

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/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules/commit-message-guidelines
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paulpham157/paul-s-cursor-rules
Per session 0 Nothing until a file matches its globs; then the whole rule loads.
When invoked 85 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 $0.00085
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00043
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00017
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00009

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8baa9ddfe53a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-message-guidelines 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 2d 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/astro-typescript-cursorrules-prompt-file/commit-message-guidelines.mdc · 8 lines

What it actually says

  • Always suggest a conventional commit with a type and optional scope in lowercase letters.
  • Keep the commit message concise and within 60 characters.
  • Ensure the commit message is ready to be pasted into the terminal without further editing.
  • Provide the full command to commit, not just the message.
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. 2d ago First seen · 8 lines · 85 tokens per session scan A 8baa9ddfe53a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-message-guidelines 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 85 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 2026-08-30.