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Git Commit Conventions — Git skill for Claude Code

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Commit message format and git workflow conventions.

How to install Git Commit Conventions

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/mkober-muxcode-git-commit-conventions/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mkober-muxcode-git-commit-conventions && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkober/muxcode/HEAD/skills/git-commit-conventions.md -o ~/.claude/skills/mkober-muxcode-git-commit-conventions/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Git Commit Conventions does

name: git-commit-conventions description: Commit message format and git workflow conventions roles: [commit, edit] tags: [git, commit]

Commit message format

Keep the subject line under 72 characters
Use imperative mood ("Add feature" not "Added feature")
Separate subject from body with a blank line
Wrap body at 72 characters
Use body to explain what and why, not how
Jira key prefix: if the branch name starts with a Jira key (e.g. PBP1-456-add-validation), prepend i

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