# Set rules for "Generate commit message"

**URL:** <https://forum.cursor.com/t/set-rules-for-generate-commit-message/151130>\
**Category:** Feature Requests\
**Tags:** rules\
**Created:** [February 7, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/set-rules-for-generate-commit-message/151130 "2026-02-07T13:14:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Aziz\_Vicentini](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Aziz\_Vicentini](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Aziz_Vicentini)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 1:14pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/set-rules-for-generate-commit-message/151130/1 "2026-02-07T13:14:26Z")

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### Feature request for product/service

Cursor IDE

### Describe the request

Possibility of configuring rules for “Generate commit message”

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**Author:** ![Peter\_Cox](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/cursor1/user_avatar/forum.cursor.com/peter_cox/32/100910_2.png) [@Peter\_Cox](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Peter_Cox)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2026, 1:15pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/set-rules-for-generate-commit-message/151130/3 "2026-02-07T13:15:42Z")

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I’d like to be able to simplify the length of the generated ones too.

That said its not a particularly critical improvement to me, it does the job and is better than “fix”

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**Author:** ![Michael\_Caplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@Michael\_Caplan](https://forum.cursor.com/u/Michael_Caplan)\
**Post date:** [May 7, 2026, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.cursor.com/t/set-rules-for-generate-commit-message/151130/4 "2026-05-07T15:20:33Z")

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Thumbs up over here. We would want to instruct the agent to use a particular formatting structure, and use more terse language