# commit-all

Creates a single Git commit for working tree changes with a generated message, verifies branch boundaries, and isolates session edits.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 1900 installs · ★ 6
- Author: sentimony
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/skills/skills/commit-all/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-24
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/commit-all

## What it does

The skill triggers on `/commit-all` or when requesting a commit without writing a message manually. It reviews modified files with `git status` and `git diff`, checks message styles across recent commits in `git log`, and drafts an imperative summary line under 72 characters. It creates exactly one commit per target repository. The skill never pushes changes to remote branches.

Branch safety stops accidental writes to production lines. Without the `--main true` flag, the skill halts and suggests branching off instead of touching the default branch directly. Passing `session-only` restricts the commit strictly to edits produced during the active conversation. To inspect the file list and planned commit title without committing, run `dry-run`.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill commit-all -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/commit-all/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/commit-all/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill commit-all -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/commit-all/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill commit-all -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/commit-all/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install sentimony/skills commit-all
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/commit-all/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill commit-all -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/sentimony/skills --path plugins/skills/skills/commit-all
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/commit-all/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add sentimony/skills --skill commit-all -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/sentimony/skills/tree/HEAD/plugins/skills/skills/commit-all/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- generate concise commit messages based on repository diffs
- prevent unconfirmed direct commits to main or master branches
- isolate and commit edits produced strictly during the current session
- preview planned staging lists and commit titles using dry-run

## Example prompts
- /commit-all
- /commit-all dry-run
- /commit-all session-only

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: commit-all
description: You MUST use this when the user asks to commit all current changes at once, via /commit-all or in words ("commit everything", "commit all changes"), without giving a commit message of their own.
metadata:
  version: "1.4.2"
license: MIT
argument-hint: "[dry-run] [--main true|false] [session-only]"
---

# Commit All

Collect every change on the current branch into one commit with a generated message.
No push, no history rewriting, and `--amend` only under the Amend rule below: the skill
produces exactly one commit per repository, on the branch the user is already on or on a
new branch the user chose in step 2, or stops to ask. The user's request is the approval:
on a feature branch a normal run analyzes the tree, shows the plan, and commits in the
same turn without asking again.

Only the user's request starts this skill, as `/commit-all` or the same request in words:
never activate it from a description of finished work, and never invoke it from another
skill. When the user supplies their own commit message, commit directly without this
skill.

Arguments:

- `/commit-all` commits; `/commit-all dry-run` prints the file list and the generated
  message for every repository in scope without committing.
- `--main true` commits to the default branch without the step 2 question; `--main false`
  (the default) asks. The flag lifts only the step 2 stop; the step 4 stop and an
  undeterminable scope still stop the run. One value covers every repository in scope.
- `session-only`, or the same limit in words in any language ("only this session's
  changes"), commits only what this session changed: the paths and hunks of its own edits
  and commands. Every other change stays uncommitted and is named in the progress update.
  When the session has nothing left to commit, end with "no session changes to commit"
  and the list of the other changed files, without a commit or a question.
- Actions after the commit in the arguments (push, pull request, merge, squash, branch
  deletion, switching to the default branch) are a separate request. Commit first, then
  hand them to `branch-finish` in the same turn; deploys go to the commands the project's
  instructions name. This skill runs none of them itself.

## Workflow

0. **Find the repositories in scope.** The current repository is always in scope. Add
   another repository only when you changed files in it during this conversation (paths
   from your own edits and commands) and it still has uncommitted changes; never scan
   for repositories the session did not touch. Read each repository's `AGENTS.md` and
   `CLAUDE.md` for rules that limit an agent's commits (for example, commits only in a
   release). With more than one repository, list each with its branch, its number of
   changed files, how many of them hold changes the session did not make, and any
   commit-limiting rule, then ask with three options (`AskUserQuestion` in Claude Code, a
   numbered list elsewhere): 1) commit in all N repositories; 2) commit only this
   session's changes in each; 3) commit in the current one only. A repository whose
   rules forbid the commit is left out of options 1 and 2 unless the user names it.
```
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