Feature Request: Allow custom rules for Generate Commit Message

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Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

Describe the request

Add customizable commit message rules to “Generate Commit Message”

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Hey, thanks for the feature request. It’s clear what you want, for Generate Commit Message to follow custom rules like format, conventions, and language.

This same request has been around for a while in a separate thread. I’ll merge your topic into it so votes and discussion stay in one place: Commit Message Generation Custom Prompt. I can’t share an ETA yet, but it’s on our radar.

For now, a temporary workaround is to use a .cursorrules file in the repo root. It’s currently picked up when generating commit messages, based on reports from this thread: How to generate git commit message in a specific format. AGENTS.md and global User Rules aren’t applied for this yet, so put your formatting instructions in .cursorrules.

Let me know if it worked.