Gen Commit Message — Git skill for Claude Code
Use when user has staged changes and asks for a commit message, says "what should the commit message be", or types /gen-commit-message.
How to install Gen Commit Message
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/michelbr84-claudemaxpower-gen-commit-message.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michelbr84/ClaudeMaxPower/HEAD/.claude/commands/gen-commit-message.md -o ~/.claude/commands/michelbr84-claudemaxpower-gen-commit-message.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Gen Commit Message does
description: Use when user has staged changes and asks for a commit message, says "what should the commit message be", or types /gen-commit-message. Reads `git diff --staged` and proposes a Conventional Commits message (feat/fix/docs/refactor/test/chore). allowed-tools: Bash, Read
Read `skills/gen-commit-message.md` in this repository and execute its workflow verbatim. Parse any arguments the user passed below and bind them to the skill's declared arguments before running.
User argumen
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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