Skills

Skill 7 of 27

Commit

Use for every request to commit changes or draft a commit message.

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Install

$ npx skills add getsentry/skills --skill commit

$ npx skills add getsentry/skills

» /plugin marketplace add getsentry/skills

The first command installs just this skill, by the name in its SKILL.md; the second installs the whole repository.

Sentry Commit Messages

Before Committing

git branch --show-current

If the branch is main or master, create a feature branch unless the user explicitly requested a direct commit. Re-check the branch and stop if it is still main or master.

Commit one coherent, independently reviewable change at a time.

Message Rules

Use:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

<optional body>

<optional footer>

Scope is optional. Add ! before : for a breaking change.
Write the subject in imperative, present tense; capitalize it, omit the trailing period, and keep it at 70 characters or fewer.
Keep every line under 100 characters.
Use the body only when useful. Explain what changed and why, including previous behavior or motivation when it helps.
Never include customer or organization names, user emails, support ticket contents, secrets, or PII. Describe the technical symptom instead.

Allowed types: feat, fix, ref, perf, docs, test, build, ci, chore, style, meta, license, and revert.

Use ref for refactoring without behavior changes, style for formatting without logic changes, and meta for repository metadata.

Footers

Fixes <issue> closes an issue when merged.
Refs <issue> links an issue without closing it.
For breaking changes, add BREAKING CHANGE: <impact>.

Creating the Commit

Use separate -m arguments for paragraphs and footers. Never put literal \n sequences in a commit message or open an interactive editor.

git commit -m "fix(api): Handle null response in user endpoint" \
  -m "Return 404 when the user API finds a deleted account." \
  -m "Fixes SENTRY-5678"

About this skill

Trigger

Use for every request to commit changes or draft a commit message. Creates Sentry-style conventional commits with issue references.

The verbatim description from this skill’s front matter — the string an agent matches on to decide whether to load it.

Colophon for this issue

Colophon

How this issue was made

Source

github.com/getsentry/skills, branch main, last pushed 21 September 2026.

Licence

Apache-2.0 — the text of every skill is reproduced unmodified, frontmatter included, under the upstream licence.

Discovery

27 skills found by walking the repository tree for SKILL.md, not by matching a directory convention. One layout observed: skills/*/SKILL.md.

Issue colours

Resolved from a deterministic hash of the owner name. Two accent tones are generated per issue and each is proven against its own ground before it ships: a single accent that passes AA on both light and dark paper is arithmetically impossible.

Heading repairs

1 repair applied to this skill so the document has one h1 and no skipped levels:

Shifted “5 headings” from h1 to h2 so the skill title is the only h1.

Spec compliance

Every skill satisfies the Agent Skills specification’s frontmatter rules.

Images

Images inside a skill come from the upstream repository. Where the author gave no alternative text we mark the image decorative rather than inventing a description — a plausible caption we made up is worse than none for the reader who depends on it.

Marketplace

A plugin manifest is published at .claude-plugin/marketplace.json by Sentry, declaring 1 plugin. It is read for editorial metadata only — never as the skill index, which is always the repository tree.

Signal

Install counts come from skills.sh. They measure downloads, not quality, and an unranked repository is not an unread one.

Agent surfaces

The whole issue is available as one markdown document at /getsentry/skills.md, and each skill at its own .md URL.

Publication

Set by Skills Docs from the source repository. Body text is Literata at the reader’s chosen size and measure; code is Geist Mono. Nothing on this page was written by us except this paragraph.

Sentry Commit Messages

git branch --show-current

If the branch is main or master, create a feature branch unless the user explicitly requested a direct commit. Re-check the branch and stop if it is still main or master.

Commit one coherent, independently reviewable change at a time.

Use:

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

<optional body>

<optional footer>

Scope is optional. Add ! before : for a breaking change.

Write the subject in imperative, present tense; capitalize it, omit the trailing period, and keep it at 70 characters or fewer.

Keep every line under 100 characters.

Use the body only when useful. Explain what changed and why, including previous behavior or motivation when it helps.

Never include customer or organization names, user emails, support ticket contents, secrets, or PII. Describe the technical symptom instead.

Allowed types: feat, fix, ref, perf, docs, test, build, ci, chore, style, meta, license, and revert.

Use ref for refactoring without behavior changes, style for formatting without logic changes, and meta for repository metadata.

Fixes <issue> closes an issue when merged.

Refs <issue> links an issue without closing it.

For breaking changes, add BREAKING CHANGE: <impact>.

Use separate -m arguments for paragraphs and footers. Never put literal \n sequences in a commit message or open an interactive editor.

git commit -m "fix(api): Handle null response in user endpoint" \
  -m "Return 404 when the user API finds a deleted account." \
  -m "Fixes SENTRY-5678"