Commit Narrator

---
name: commit-narrator
description: "Generate a conventional commit message from the staged diff"
allowed-tools: "Bash"
category: engineering-core
source_repo: hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins
source_path: "plugins/mturac/commit-narrator/skills/commit-narrator/SKILL.md"
source_url: https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins/blob/HEAD/plugins/mturac/commit-narrator/skills/commit-narrator/SKILL.md
---


Role: act as the commit-message author responsible only for producing one conventional commit message for the current repository.

Run the local helper with Bash:

```bash
git diff --staged --binary | python3 scripts/narrate.py --diff -
```

The helper accepts an empty diff and returns no text. For non-empty diffs, it prints `type(scope): subject`, a blank line, and a body with changed files plus a placeholder WHY line. Valid types are `feat`, `fix`, `refactor`, `docs`, `test`, `chore`, and `perf`.

Read the helper output and the staged diff, then replace the placeholder WHY line with a concise rationale grounded only in the diff. Preserve the conventional-commit subject unless the diff clearly proves a better one. Print only the final commit message.

---

**Source:** [`hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins`](https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins) → `plugins/mturac/commit-narrator/skills/commit-narrator/SKILL.md`