Writing Commit Messages

Writing Commit Messages is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by herdrdev in herdr.

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Install Writing Commit Messages

Copy Writing Commit Messages into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr/tree/master/vendor/libghostty-vt/.agents/skills/writing-commit-messages ~/.claude/skills/writing-commit-messages

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/herdrdev/herdr.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: vendor/libghostty-vt/.agents/skills/writing-commit-messages/SKILL.md in herdrdev/herdr
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/writing-commit-messages
Collection: One of 5 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What Writing Commit Messages does

Writing Commit Messages drafts Git commit messages that follow a project's style guidelines. It activates when the user asks to write or draft a commit message, inspects the diff, identifies subsystem and references, and applies the commit without pushing.

Writing Commit Messages is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. Writing Commit Messages comes from a repository tagged agent, agent-orchestration, ai, ai-agents and claude-code.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Writing Commit Messages

Write commit messages that follow commit style guidelines for the project.

Format

<subsystem>: <summary>

<reference issues/PRs/etc.>

<long form description>

Rules

Subject line

Subsystem prefix: Use a short, lowercase identifier for the area of code changed (e.g., terminal, vt, lib, config, font). Determine this from the file paths in the diff. If changes span the macOS app, use macos. For GTK, use gtk. For build system, use build. Use nested subsystems with / when helpful and exclusive (e.g., terminal/osc).
Summary: Lowercase start (not capitalized), imperative mood, no trailing period. Keep it concise—ideally under 60 characters total for the whole subject line.

References

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Writing Commit Messages

What else does herdrdev publish alongside Writing Commit Messages?
Writing Commit Messages is one of 5 skills that DirSkills catalogs from herdrdev/herdr, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Herdr, Herdr Pre-Release Audit and Herdr Throwaway Repro. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Writing Commit Messages does, and is maintained by herdrdev in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the herdrdev/herdr page.
How does Writing Commit Messages compare to other Writing skills?
Writing Commit Messages ranks #39 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Writing Commit Messages against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.