A tiny Go tool for generating conventional commits using Claude

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I know there are lots of these, but this one is my no-frills CLI tool for generating conventional commits from whatever is staged. It's super small, super fast, super fun.

git add .

commit

a (to accept, e to open Vim to edit, r to reject)

Conventional commits for everyone!

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Nice tool. To add a workflow to the 'lots of these', I usually use an aichat[^1] role. The prompt is stored in `~/.config/aichat/roles/gitcommit.md` and then I do this:

``` git diff --cached | aichat -m deepseek:deepseek-chat -r gitcommit | git commit --edit --file - ```

I like that your tool includes some previous commit messages... I'm not sure if that can be done with `aichat` but it seems like a great idea.

I'd be tempted to wrap individual commit messages in pseudo-xml <commit> tags, as Claude really likes those[^2] and the `%B` format doesn't really show the breaks between commit messages.

1: https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

2: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/prompt-...

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