# Commit message generation hints

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/commit-message-generation-hints/39208>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Created:** [January 5, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/commit-message-generation-hints/39208 "2025-01-05T04:07:24Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![ByteAtATime](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/byteatatime/32/18556_2.png) [@ByteAtATime](https://forum.cursor.com/u/ByteAtATime)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2025, 4:07am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/commit-message-generation-hints/39208/1 "2025-01-05T04:07:24Z")

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I think it would be useful to be able to give the commit message generator a “hint”, to give it some context. For example, maybe it thinks that the main part of this commit is that I added some tests. However, I might write in the commit box, “feat: add pagination for products”, so that the AI knows that it shouldn’t focus on the tests, but rather on the new pagination feature.

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**Author:** ![danperks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/danperks/32/19087_2.png) [@danperks](https://forum.cursor.com/u/danperks)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/commit-message-generation-hints/39208/2 "2025-01-08T14:52:00Z")

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This is a cool idea. A lot of the time people have preferences about the way that commit messages are written. So giving some way of prompting it would be quite useful!

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**Author:** ![SimonB97](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/simonb97/32/12239_2.png) [@SimonB97](https://forum.cursor.com/u/SimonB97)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/commit-message-generation-hints/39208/3 "2025-03-07T12:37:22Z")

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Second this!

To add, i think it would be useful to have this feature directly in the commit field, not hidden or less accessible in a vs-code/cursor setting.

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**Author:** ![richmarlatt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/richmarlatt/32/33667_2.png) [@richmarlatt](https://forum.cursor.com/u/richmarlatt)\
**Post date:** [March 7, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/commit-message-generation-hints/39208/4 "2025-03-07T15:06:20Z")

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I would be great if we could include our commit message preferences in our .cursorrules.

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**Author:** ![system](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/system/32/99069_2.png) [@system](https://forum.cursor.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2026, 10:32am UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/commit-message-generation-hints/39208/5 "2026-06-18T10:32:00Z")

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