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Conventional-commit message formatting for Cursor

By awesome-cursorrules community (curated by PatrickJS) · last verified 2026-09-06
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What it does
Cursor Project Rules for writing conventional commit messages: type prefixes, scope, and message structure.
Install
Cursor
mkdir -p .cursor/rules
curl -o .cursor/rules/git-conventional-commit-messages.mdc https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/main/rules/git-conventional-commit-messages.mdc

Per the repo's own instructions: create a .cursor/rules/ directory in your project, then copy the .mdc file into it. Cursor auto-attaches the rule based on the globs in its frontmatter.

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