Commitlint

Validate commit messages against Conventional Commits format using commitlint configuration and rules.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

• Setting up commitlint for a repository
• Configuring commitlint rules and shareable configurations
• Integrating commitlint with pre-commit hooks or CI/CD pipelines
• Extracting rules from commitlint config to generate LLM prompts for commit message generation
• Validating commit messages programmatically
• Troubleshooting commitlint configuration or validation errors
• Understanding commitlint rule syntax and severity levels
• Detecting commitlint configuration files in a repository

Core Capabilities