Can "Generate Commit Message" Support Custom Rules?

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

We’d like to add custom rules or a fixed format to Generate Commit Message, for example:

  • Use Chinese only for the message

  • Limit the message length

  • Other similar constraints

We’d really like to see support for these options, because generating a commit message with a single click is very convenient and we don’t have to open the chat and paste a lot of context there.

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Hey there!

You can use a .cursorrules file to define rules that will apply to your commit messages. The AI-generated commit message feature (the sparkle button in the SCM input box) does not include user-defined rules unless they are defined in a .cursorrules file.

Other rules don’t currently affect the commit message, and we have a bug filed for that!

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You can use a .cursorrules file to define rules that will apply to your commit messages.

Wouldn’t this result in the rule being sent to all agents on every turn? Seems excessive just to control the behavior of a commit message button.