git-workflow

Commit message formatting ensures team consistency and readability. This skill automates validation of custom formats—enforcing terse, single-line, lowercase present-tense messages without emojis or attribution—eliminating manual corrections and standardizing every commit to your preferences.

Pre-commit hook failures that auto-modify files are common workflow interruptions. This skill provides a deterministic single-retry protocol: it detects the failure, guides you through the amend process with authorship verification, and resolves the commit without repeated manual intervention.

Yes. This skill automatically validates and formats commit messages against your defined standards in real time, catching violations before they reach the repository and eliminating the need to amend commits manually after the fact.

Staging strategy affects how pre-commit hooks behave and whether retry logic applies. This skill provides guidance on atomic versus bulk staging decisions, ensuring you stage files correctly to minimize hook failures and keep your commit workflow deterministic.

Pre-commit hooks that modify files or encounter linting errors interrupt commits. This skill automates recovery with a one-time retry logic: it detects the failure type, applies the appropriate fix, verifies authorship, and completes the commit without manual rework.