What it does

Uses Conventional Commits with type, scope, and an imperative subject under 50 characters

Skips the body when the diff speaks for itself; adds one for reasoning, breaking changes, or issue refs

Strips noise like "This commit does", first person, file name repetition, and AI attribution

Generates the message only and never runs git

How to install

Run the command below in your terminal. Pick the agents you use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, and more) and it installs into the right folder.

npx skills add https://github.com/juliusbrussee/caveman --skill caveman-commit

To install manually, download the caveman-commit skill folder from the GitHub repository and copy it into your agent's skills folder, such as ~/.claude/skills/ or .cursor/skills/.
Ask your agent for a related task and the skill is used automatically.

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