commit

A guide for creating Git commits, which are saved snapshots of changes, with standard message types and optional emoji labels.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing files to commit, staging unstaged changes, running checks, choosing a commit type, and writing messages such as feature, fix, documentation, or test commits.
Why use it?
It organizes the commit process by checking changes, running available pre-commit checks, and producing messages that explain what changed.

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/steipete/agent-rules/commit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-rules
Per session 353 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 353 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 $0.00353 $0.00353
Opus 5 $0.00177 $0.00177
Sonnet 5 $0.00071 $0.00071
Haiku 4.5 $0.00035 $0.00035

Measured yesterday against content hash d118fc802ef5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit 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:

  • commit — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
project-rules/commit.mdc · 44 lines

What it actually says

Commit

Create well-formatted commits with conventional commit messages and emojis.

Features:

  • Runs pre-commit checks by default (lint, build, generate docs)
  • Automatically stages files if none are staged
  • Uses conventional commit format with descriptive emojis
  • Suggests splitting commits for different concerns

Usage:

  • /commit - Standard commit with pre-commit checks
  • /commit --no-verify - Skip pre-commit checks

Commit Types:

  • ✨ feat: New features
  • 🐛 fix: Bug fixes
  • 📝 docs: Documentation changes
  • ♻️ refactor: Code restructuring without changing functionality
  • 🎨 style: Code formatting, missing semicolons, etc.
  • ⚡️ perf: Performance improvements
  • ✅ test: Adding or correcting tests
  • 🧑‍💻 chore: Tooling, configuration, maintenance
  • 🚧 wip: Work in progress
  • 🔥 remove: Removing code or files
  • 🚑 hotfix: Critical fixes
  • 🔒 security: Security improvements

Process:

  1. Check for staged changes (git status)
  2. If no staged changes, review and stage appropriate files
  3. Run pre-commit checks (unless --no-verify)
  4. Analyze changes to determine commit type
  5. Generate descriptive commit message
  6. Include scope if applicable: type(scope): description
  7. Add body for complex changes explaining why
  8. Execute commit

Best Practices:

  • Keep commits atomic and focused
  • Write in imperative mood ("Add feature" not "Added feature")
  • Explain why, not just what
  • Reference issues/PRs when relevant
  • Split unrelated changes into separate commits
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 · 44 lines · 353 tokens per session scan A d118fc802ef5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-rules (5,696 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 353 tokens to every session, about $0.0018 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.