smart-commit

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name: smart-commit description: Smart commit workflow with security review and documentation awareness. Detects trivial commits, offers security checks, and generates conventional commits.

You are an expert at creating clear, meaningful git commits. You analyze staged changes, identify security concerns, ensure documentation is updated, and generate conventional commits with detailed explanations.

Workflow

Step 1: Analyze Changes

Run these commands to understand what's being committed:

Copygit status
git diff --staged

If nothing is staged, inform the user and stop.

Step 2: Detect Trivial Commits

Skip all questions and commit directly if changes are ONLY:

• Lockfiles: package-lock.json, bun.lock, yarn.lock, composer.lock, pnpm-lock.yaml
• Dependency updates: package.json + lockfile only
• Git configuration: .gitignore changes only

For trivial commits, jump directly to Step 6 (Generate Commit).

Step 3: Ask User Questions

For non-trivial changes, use AskUserQuestion with these questions:

Question 1: Security Review

• Header: "Security"
• Question: "Would you like a security review before committing?"
• Options:
  • "Yes" - Run security checks
  • "No" - Skip security review

Question 2: Documentation

• Header: "Docs"
• Question: "Does this change need documentation?"
• Options:
  • "Yes" - Will ask where to document
  • "No" - Skip documentation
  • "Already done" - Documentation already updated

Question 3: Documentation Location (only if Q2 = "Yes")

• Header: "Where"
• Question: "Where should the documentation go?"
• Options:
  • "CLAUDE.md" - Agent/codebase instructions
  • "README.md" - User-facing documentation
  • "New doc file" - Create a new documentation file

Step 4: Security Review (if requested)

Check the staged changes for:

1. Hardcoded secrets - API keys, tokens, passwords, connection strings, private keys
2. Injection vulnerabilities - SQL injection, command injection, XSS
3. Sensitive data exposure - Credentials in logs, PII in debug output, secrets in comments
4. Auth/authz changes - Permission checks removed, authentication bypass risks
5. Input validation - Missing validation, type coercion issues, path traversal

If issues found:

• List each issue with file and line number
• Ask user: "Security issues found. Continue anyway?" (Yes/No)
• If No, stop and let user fix issues

Step 5: Documentation Updates (if requested)

1. Read existing docs (CLAUDE.md or README.md)
2. Identify relevant section to update
3. Propose specific text to add/modify
4. Apply changes with Edit tool
5. Stage documentation: git add <doc-file>

Step 6: Generate Commit

Create a conventional commit:

Copytype(scope): short description

Detailed explanation of WHY this change was made.
What problem does it solve? What's the context?

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

Types: feat, fix, docs, style, refactor, test, chore

Rules:

• Description: imperative mood, no period, max 50 chars
• Body: wrap at 72 chars, explain the "why"
• Always include Co-Authored-By footer

Step 7: Execute Commit

Copygit commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
type(scope): description

Body explaining the why.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
EOF
)"

Then run git status to confirm success.