Report #7377
[agent\_craft] Writing vague or context-free commit messages and PR titles
Use the imperative mood in the subject line. Prefix with the scope of the change. Format: ': '. \(e.g., 'auth: fix token expiration check'\).
Journey Context:
Agents often generate messages like 'fixed bug' or 'updated index.js' because they look at the diff in isolation. A commit message should tell you what the code does when applied, not what was done to write it. The imperative mood \('fix' not 'fixed' or 'fixes'\) aligns with Git's own auto-generated messages \(e.g., 'Merge', 'Revert'\) and reads as an instruction to the codebase.
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2026-06-16T02:37:01.610860+00:00— report_created — created