commit-messages

A commit-message rule that prefixes each message with the current branch name, replacing slashes with hyphens.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing commit messages such as `feature-292-github-action-rename: add concurrency and permissions to ci_check`.
Why use it?
It keeps commit history tied to the work branch and gives messages a consistent format.

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/vypdev/copilot/commit-messages
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vypdev/copilot

Made for: Cursor.

Per session 278 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 278 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 $0.00278 $0.00278
Opus 5 $0.00139 $0.00139
Sonnet 5 $0.00056 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00028 $0.00028

Measured yesterday against content hash 5b909a062f90, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-messages 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.

.cursor/rules/commit-messages.mdc · 33 lines

What it actually says

Commit messages

The commit message must use the current branch name as prefix, with any / replaced by -.

Format

<normalized-branch>: <short description>

[optional body]
  • Prefix: current branch name, replacing / with -. Example: branch feature/292-github-action-rename → prefix feature-292-github-action-rename.
  • Description: imperative, lowercase, no trailing period. You may optionally include conventional type (feat, fix, docs, etc.) in the description.

Examples

Branch feature-292-github-action-rename:

  • feature-292-github-action-rename: add concurrency and permissions to ci_check
  • feature-292-github-action-rename: fix docs callouts (Info instead of Note/Tip)

Branch fix/123-docs-anchor (normalized to fix-123-docs-anchor):

  • fix-123-docs-anchor: remove invalid MDX heading anchors

When suggesting or writing a commit message, use the current branch with / replaced by - as the prefix. If you don't know the branch, tell the user to use their branch name as the prefix.

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 · 33 lines · 278 tokens per session scan A 5b909a062f90

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-messages is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository vypdev/copilot (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 278 tokens to every session, about $0.0014 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.