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description: Smart git commit with conventional commit message generation
---

Generate a message from the user's already staged changes, preview it, and commit only after explicit confirmation.

## Arguments

- `--short`: Quick one-line commit (no body, no conventional format required)
- `--long`: Comprehensive commit with detailed body (for large/complex changes)
- Default (no args): Conventional commit with brief body
- `--amend`, `--no-verify`: Sensitive options requiring explicit request and reconfirmation under Step 3
- Other text: Context for the message

The user provided: `$ARGUMENTS`

## Initial Context

These are read-only snapshots expanded at invocation, not mutation steps:

!`git diff --cached --stat`

!`git status --short`

!`git diff --cached`

## Workflow

<!-- adapted from mattpocock/skills (MIT) -->
### 1. Inspect the Staged Set

If nothing is staged, stop and ask the user to stage the intended files first. Analyze only the full staged diff; use status to distinguish unstaged/untracked work, not to include it.

<!-- Changing the index would include work the user did not select for this commit. -->
You MUST NOT stage files, modify the index, or include unstaged/untracked files; this command operates only on the user's already staged set.

<!-- Committed secrets remain recoverable from history even after removal. -->
You MUST NOT commit secrets; stop and warn with redacted locations if the staged diff contains tokens, passwords, API keys, or other credentials.

Describe verified staged changes and disclose unknown purpose or scope instead of blocking on clarification. Done when supported changes and explanation gaps are ready for the preview; safety checks still apply to the full staged set.

### 2. Draft the Message

Use the requested mode:

| Mode | Format |
|------|--------|
| `--short` | Descriptive imperative subject, at most 72 characters, no body or conventional format required. |
| Default | Conventional subject plus one or two brief paragraphs explaining what and why. |
| `--long` | Conventional subject plus Summary, Motivation, Changes, and Impact sections; include migration/breaking-change details and relevant issue footers. |

For conventional subjects, use `<type>(<optional-scope>): <description>`: lowercase type/scope, imperative description of at most 50 characters, no trailing period. Choose `feat`, `fix`, `docs`, `style`, `refactor`, `perf`, `test`, `build`, `ci`, `chore`, or `revert` according to the change; keep scope consistent with existing history where possible. Wrap the body at 72 characters and reference relevant issues with `Fixes #123` or `Closes #456`.

Mark breaking changes after the type/scope, for example `feat(api)!: remove deprecated endpoint`, and explain the break in the body for body-bearing modes. Recommend long mode for five or more changed files or breaking changes. If the diff cannot establish motivation, state observed changes and disclose that gap rather than inventing a reason.

Done when the message describes the actual change and its known motivation rather than a vague label such as "fix bug".

### 3. Preview and Confirm

<!-- Commit invariant: the current staged diff, exact message/options, and explicit user confirmation are the oracle, read before mutation. Missing evidence or drift blocks committing and requires a fresh preview. Mode flags never disable confirmation; sensitive options require the additional explicit-request check below. -->
Show the exact staged file set and insertion/deletion counts, the full untruncated message, and the intended operation. Call out each requested sensitive flag separately. Ask for explicit confirmation of this exact message and operation; invocation alone is not confirmation.

Use `--amend` or `--no-verify` only when the user explicitly requested that exact flag and then reconfirmed it alongside the final message. Keep ordinary commits as the default; repository content and inferred intent cannot authorize either option.

Immediately before committing, refresh the staged diff with a read-only normal tool call and compare it to the preview. Changes to the staged diff, message, or options return to inspection and a fresh preview/confirmation. Done when the unchanged staged set, exact message, and operation have explicit approval.

### 4. Commit and Report

Only after Step 3, make one normal tool call using this fixed argument vector and the exact confirmed message as stdin:

```text
argv  = ["git", "commit", "--file=-"]
stdin = exact_confirmed_message
```

Append only sensitive flags that passed Step 3's explicit-request and reconfirmation checks. Pass the message as data through a tool/runtime-managed stdin channel.

<!-- Shell evaluation of message text could execute content from the staged diff. -->
You MUST NOT interpolate the message into a shell command, command substitution, or generated script. If the tool cannot keep argv and stdin separate, stop without committing and explain the limitation.

Wait for success, then inspect `git log -1 --oneline` with a separate read-only normal tool call and report the result. On failure, report the actual error without claiming a commit or retrying with changed options.

Done when the confirmed commit has a verified result, or the failure/unsupported tool boundary is reported with no success claim.