git-commit-workflow

A workflow for checking code before committing it to Git, a tool for recording project changes. It uses conventional commits, a standard format for describing those changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to run tests, type checks, and builds before creating a commit, and to stop the commit when validation fails.
Why use it?
It prevents commits when tests, TypeScript checks, or the build fail, reducing the chance of recording broken code.

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/squirrelogic/cursor-rules/git-commit-workflow
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/squirrelogic/cursor-rules

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 939 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 $0.00012 $0.00939
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00094

Measured yesterday against content hash 49e946a3c629, 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-workflow 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.cursor/rules/git-commit-workflow.mdc · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Commit Workflow Rule

Description

This rule defines the complete workflow for validating changes, running tests, and creating commits. It ensures that all changes are properly tested and validated before being committed using the conventional commits format.

Rule Type

workflow

Rule Format

{
  "type": "workflow",
  "name": "git_commit_workflow",
  "description": "Validates changes and creates conventional commits",
  "filters": [
    {
      "type": "event",
      "pattern": "pre_commit"
    }
  ],
  "steps": [
    {
      "action": "validate",
      "description": "Run tests and type checks",
      "requirements": [
        "All tests MUST pass",
        "TypeScript compilation MUST succeed",
        "Build process MUST complete successfully"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "execute",
      "description": "Validate and commit changes",
      "script": {
        "steps": [
          {
            "name": "run_tests",
            "command": "npm test",
            "on_failure": "abort"
          },
          {
            "name": "type_check",
            "command": "npm run type-check",
            "on_failure": "abort"
          },
          {
            "name": "build",
            "command": "npm run build",
            "on_failure": "abort"
          },
          {
            "name": "check_changes",
            "command": "git status --porcelain",
            "store_output": "CHANGED_FILES"
          },
          {
            "name": "stage_changes",
            "command": "git add ."
          },
          {
            "name": "create_commit",
            "use_rule": "conventional-commits"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Workflow Steps

  1. Run Tests

    • Execute the test suite using npm test
    • Abort if any tests fail
    • Ensure all new features have corresponding tests
  2. Type Checking

    • Run TypeScript type checking
    • Verify no type errors exist
    • Abort if type checking fails
  3. Build Process

    • Run the build process
    • Ensure the project builds successfully
    • Abort if build fails

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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 · 160 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 49e946a3c629

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-commit-workflow is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository squirrelogic/cursor-rules (20 stars, last pushed 1y ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 939 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.