Committing Changes Skill for Claude

Git commit conventions and workflow for Bitwarden repositories. Use when committing code, writing commit messages, or preparing changes for commit. Triggered by "commit", "git commit", "commit message", "prepare commit", "stage changes".

7k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

ships runnable scripts

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

129

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/bitwarden/ai-plugins --skill committing-changes

What comes with it

25 794 bytes besides the instruction

evals/README.md

evals/baseline.json

evals/behavior-baseline.json

evals/behavior-eval.json

evals/run_real_eval.py

evals/trigger-eval.json

The instruction itself

7 sections, as written by the author

Git Commit Conventions

Branch Check

Resolve the repository's default branch from the remote rather than assuming main. If the current branch is the default, ask for a branch name before staging or committing. Offer to suggest one and confirm before switching. If the default branch cannot be resolved, say so and confirm the current branch is intended before staging.

Commit Message Format

[PM-XXXXX] <type>: <imperative summary>

<optional body explaining why, not what>

Rules

Ticket prefix: Always include [PM-XXXXX] matching the Jira ticket
Type keyword: Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/references/change-type-labels.md for the full table of conventional commit types and their CI label mappings. If the type cannot be confidently determined, ask the user.

Examples

[PM-12345] feat: Add biometric unlock timeout configuration

Users reported confusion about when biometric prompts appear.
This adds a configurable timeout setting to the security preferences.

Ambiguous cases — choosing between similar types:

# Refactor that also fixes a bug? Use the primary intent:
[PM-12345] fix: Resolve null pointer in vault sync retry logic

# Test-only change:
[PM-12345] test: Add unit tests for biometric timeout edge cases

Followup Commits

Only the first commit on a branch needs the full format (ticket prefix, type keyword, body). Subsequent commits can use a short, descriptive summary with no prefix or body required.

Update error handling in login flow

Pre-Commit Quality Gate

Before staging, run the perform-preflight skill for the full quality gate checklist (tests, lint, security, architecture). Consult the repo's CLAUDE.md for platform-specific build and lint commands.

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How to use it

Copy the folder

Take bitwarden/committing-changes from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.