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You can use `hg commit --interactive` to use the the commit itself as the staging area. And I'd argue that's a better model because:

- It limits the amount of time changes are stored in an intermediate state, making it much less likely to interfere with other operations, like pulling and switching branches.

- You can use the same commands (and mental model) to manage the "staging area" and other commits.

- The history of staging and unstaging becomes actual history and can be recovered and shared.

> […] did I miss the git index.

Perhaps:

* https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/GitConcepts#Git.27s_stagi...

The index is an anti-feature in my opinion. People commit in chunks with no guarantees that these commits that are valid all together are valid individually.