commit-all

---
name: commit-all
description: User-invoked via /commit-all only. Gathers the working tree into a single commit on the current branch, no push.
license: MIT
---

# Commit All

Collect every change on the current branch into one commit with a generated message.
No push, no `--amend`, no new branches, no history rewriting: the skill produces exactly
one commit on the branch the user is already on, or stops to ask.

Only the user triggers this skill: 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 without committing.

## Workflow

1. **Survey the tree.** Run `git status --short`, `git diff`, `git diff --staged`, and
   `git log --oneline -10` for the branch's message conventions. A clean tree ends the
   run with "no changes to commit" and nothing else.
2. **Check the branch.** On `main` or `master`, stop and ask whether to commit there or
   create a branch first; never commit to a default branch silently.
3. **Separate the session's changes from pre-existing ones.** Compare the tree against
   the `git status` from the start of the conversation. Without that snapshot, ask
   whether to commit everything. By default `commit-all` means all changes on the
   branch; when part of the tree is clearly another topic, say so in one sentence and
   let the user decide.
4. **Screen untracked files.** Skip anything `.gitignore` should have covered, one-off
   scripts, and files that may hold secrets; ask about them instead of staging blindly.
5. **Generate the message.** One imperative summary line up to ~72 characters. Reuse a
   prefix convention (`feat(scope):`, `fix:`) only when `git log` shows one; never
   impose your own. Add a body only when the diff spans several unrelated groups: 2-4
   short bullets, one per group, no per-file listing. Write the message in English. No
   co-author or agent attribution unless the repository's conventions require it.
6. **Show before committing.** When the tree holds changes the session did not make,
   print the file list and the generated message and wait for confirmation. In
   `dry-run` mode, stop here always.
7. **Commit.** One commit on the current branch. Afterwards show `git log -1 --stat`
   (or a short excerpt). Do not push.

## Mechanics

- Pass the message via `git commit -F -` with a heredoc, never `-m` with escaping.
- Argument order matters: `git commit -F - -- <paths>`; putting `-F` after the pathspec
  breaks.
- zsh does not word-split an unquoted variable, so `git diff -- $PATHS` silently matches
  nothing; keep path lists in a file or a shell array.
- For a partial commit use `git commit -F - -- <paths>` so already-staged index entries
  (renames in particular) survive untouched.
- Never pass `--no-verify`; a failing pre-commit hook is a result to report, not an
  obstacle.
- Force push and history rewriting are out of scope for this skill under any wording.

## Amend

When the previous commit was made by this same session and is not pushed, offer
`--amend` in one sentence; run it only after the user agrees. Never offer it for a
pushed or foreign commit.