conventional-commits

A set of commit-message rules based on Conventional Commits, a format that makes a project's change history easier for people and software tools to read.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when naming commits, choosing an optional code-area scope, describing breaking changes and linking commits to issues.
Why use it?
It keeps commits consistent and records whether a change adds a feature, fixes a bug or breaks compatibility, helping with changelogs and versioning.

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/virtuslab-open-source/strapi-plugin-mcp/conventional-commits
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VirtusLab-Open-Source/strapi-plugin-mcp

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 10 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 420 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 $0.00010 $0.00420
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00210
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00042

Measured 2d ago against content hash d869d14f84c7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conventional-commits 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.

.cursor/rules/conventional-commits.mdc · 47 lines

What it actually says

Conventional Commits

Goal

  • Keep commit history readable and automatable; enable changelog generation and semantic versioning.

Format

  • Header: type(scope)!: subject
    • type: feat, fix, docs, refactor, test, chore, build, ci, perf, style, revert
    • scope (optional): admin, server, common, services, content-types, strapi-info, controllers, routes, tooling, repo
    • ! (optional): breaking change indicator
    • subject: imperative, lower case, no trailing period; ≤ 72 chars
  • Body (optional): why the change is made; context and implications
  • Footer (optional): BREAKING CHANGE: description, and issue references like Closes #123

Rules

  • Use present tense, imperative mood in subjects (e.g., "add", "fix", "remove").
  • Keep one logical change per commit when possible.
  • Prefer scoping to the most specific area touched.
  • Mark breaking changes either with ! in the header or a BREAKING CHANGE: footer.

Examples

feat(server): add service-methods tool returning method metadata

fix(content-types): include components in content-type listing

refactor(common)!: unify McpToolDefinitionBuilder args order

docs(admin): document HomePage and translations flow

test(services): add coverage for services.tool

chore(repo): bump dependencies and regenerate lockfile

Anti-patterns

  • Bad: update stuff (no type/scope)
  • Bad: fix (missing subject)
  • Bad: feat: Added New Feature. (past tense, capitalized, trailing period)
  • Bad: Giant commits with unrelated changes; split into smaller logical 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. 2d ago First seen · 47 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A d869d14f84c7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

conventional-commits is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository VirtusLab-Open-Source/strapi-plugin-mcp (3 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 420 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 2026-08-31.