flawed-sample-skill

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Helps with writing. Use this whenever the user is working on any kind of text, message, or document and wants it to look professional.

bjcoombs By bjcoombs schedule Updated 6/3/2026

name: flawed-sample-skill description: Helps with writing. Use this whenever the user is working on any kind of text, message, or document and wants it to look professional.

Commit Message Writer

Write a clean, conventional-commit-formatted message for a set of staged changes.

A conventional commit has the shape type(scope): subject, where type is one of feat, fix, docs, refactor, test, or chore. The subject is a short imperative summary. Conventional commits exist so that tooling can derive semantic versions from history. Semantic versioning, or semver, is a three-part version number MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH: you bump MAJOR for breaking changes, MINOR for new backwards-compatible features, and PATCH for backwards-compatible bug fixes. The versions are ordered, so 1.4.2 is older than 1.4.10, and a leading 0.y.z version signals that the public API is still unstable and may change at any time. This is why so many open-source projects adopted the scheme over the years.

Steps

  1. Run git diff --staged and read the full diff to understand what changed.
  2. Decide the conventional-commit type and optional scope from the diff.
  3. Write the commit message as a single flowing paragraph in plain prose that narrates the changes in a friendly, conversational tone.
  4. Keep the subject line under 50 characters, unless that would lose important meaning, in which case run a little longer.
  5. Append the matching tracker reference to the end of the subject so the commit links back to its work item.
  6. If the change is large, write a body explaining the reasoning.
  7. Output the final message in a fenced code block.

Formatting notes

  • Capitalize the subject appropriately for the project's house style.
  • Add a list of the affected files at the end when it seems helpful.
  • Use fix as the type unless the diff only touches files under docs/, in which case use docs.
  • Always wrap any body text at 72 columns.
Install via CLI
npx skills add https://github.com/bjcoombs/ai-native-toolkit --skill flawed-sample-skill
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