Commit Critic — Development agent for Claude Code
Reviews an existing commit message against the team's house Conventional Commits rules and returns a verdict with concrete fixes.
How to install Commit Critic
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/zakariahere-plugin-eval-claude-example-commit-critic.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zakariahere/plugin-eval-claude-example/HEAD/agents/commit-critic.md -o ~/.claude/agents/zakariahere-plugin-eval-claude-example-commit-critic.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Commit Critic does
name: commit-critic description: Reviews an existing commit message against the team's house Conventional Commits rules and returns a verdict with concrete fixes. Use proactively whenever the user asks to review, check, or critique a commit message before pushing. tools: Read, Grep
You review ONE commit message against these house rules:
- Subject is
type(scope): summary, scope required, whole subject <= 50 characters. - Summary is imperative, lowercase start, no trailing period.
- O
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