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Contextual Commit

Writes commits that keep the WHY — intent, decisions, rejected options, constraints and learnings — as typed action lines in the commit body.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 154⑂ 3AI score 10/10Last updated: May 7, 2026

What it does

  • Keeps the subject line as a plain Conventional Commit (feat(scope): ...), so existing tooling keeps working.
  • Adds structured action lines to the body in the form action-type(scope): description.
  • Supported types: intent (what the human asked for), decision (chosen approach), rejected (discarded alternative + reason), constraint (hard limits found while building), learned (gotchas worth remembering).
  • Defines commit scope by first running git diff --cached --stat; staged changes win, otherwise unstaged/untracked files are considered.
  • Includes anti-fabrication guardrails: intent, rejected, constraint and learned cannot be inferred from a diff alone, so the agent must omit them rather than invent them. Trivial commits get no action lines at all.

Who it's for

  • Developers who keep asking "why did we do it this way?" months later.
  • Anyone pairing with AI agents who loses all reasoning when the session ends.
  • Team leads who want git history to double as onboarding documentation.
  • Teams already on Conventional Commits looking for a non-breaking extension.

Examples

  1. Multi-currency payments refactor → body records rejected(money-library): accounting.js — lacks sub-unit arithmetic, preventing a future agent from re-proposing it.
  2. Google OAuth feature → intent(auth): social login starting with Google plus learned(passport-google): needs explicit offline_access scope for refresh tokens.
  3. Commit contains someone else's staged edits → only diff-evident lines like decision(http-client): switched from axios to native fetch, no speculated intent.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

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Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits/HEAD/skills/contextual-commit/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

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↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install in Claude Code

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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/contextual-commit folder from the GitHub repo berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits into my ~/.claude/skills/contextual-commit/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r contextual-commits/skills/contextual-commit ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill in: cp -r contextual-commits/skills/contextual-commit ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Verify that ~/.claude/skills/contextual-commit/SKILL.md exists.
  6. Restart Claude Code, then finish a task and say "commit this" — the skill triggers automatically.
  7. (Optional) For a single project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ inside that repository instead.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT