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Skill1 starsChanged 13 days agoApache-2.0View on GitHub

Stage and commit work without pulling in unrelated changes. Use whenever committing, staging, amending, or moving changed files into a worktree, and when the user says "commit only what you changed".

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The file

We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent

7 rules. 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.

  • 0

    Common

    Most of the 168 edited versions we read keep these.

  • 5

    Distinctive

    This author's own choices. Worth a look.

  • 2

    Very specific

    Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.

  • Common
  • Distinctive
  • Very specific
  • could be automatic: a setting could enforce it
  1. Distinctive:

    Never git add -A, git add ., git add -u, or git commit -a.

    line 16
  2. Very specific:

    Never stage implementation-notes-*.md.

    line 24
  3. Distinctive:

    No file-by-file summary, no filenames, no implementation narration.

    line 33
  4. Distinctive:

    No separate "Why" section.

    line 34
  5. Very specific:

    No AI, agent, model, or provider attribution.

    line 36
  6. Distinctive:

    No employer name, personal name, or email.

    line 38
  7. Distinctive:

    No secrets, keys, tokens, or customer data in the diff.

    line 44

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 168 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

Keep what fits and drop the rest. Your version, ready for your agents.
Files
SKILL.md

Commit

The working tree usually contains work that is not yours. Staging is an explicit act.

Stage only your own edits

  1. git status --porcelain and git diff --stat first. Read the whole list.
  2. Identify the files you edited this session. If unsure which those are, say so and ask rather than guessing.
  3. Stage them by explicit path: git add path/a path/b.
  4. Never git add -A, git add ., git add -u, or git commit -a.
  5. git diff --cached before committing. If anything in it is not yours, unstage it.

Untracked files are not automatically yours and are not automatically disposable.

The same rule applies when moving work into a worktree: carry over the files you changed, not everything the tree shows as dirty.

Never stage implementation-notes-*.md. It is a local record, not part of the change.

Write the message

Conventional Commits: type(scope): intent. Types: feat, fix, refactor, test, docs, build, ci, chore, perf, revert.

  • Three sentences maximum, total.
  • Say why the change exists and what outcome it achieves.
  • No file-by-file summary, no filenames, no implementation narration.
  • No separate "Why" section.
  • No em dashes.
  • No AI, agent, model, or provider attribution. No Co-Authored-By, no session trailers, no session links. If a tool adds one, remove it before committing.
  • No employer name, personal name, or email.

Before the commit lands

  • The relevant tests were run and passed. Not "should pass".
  • The staged diff contains only intended changes.
  • No secrets, keys, tokens, or customer data in the diff.
  • Generated files in the diff are there on purpose.

Never without being asked

Amend, squash, rebase, reset --hard, force-push, or rewrite history. Each needs explicit approval naming what will be rewritten.

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