{"repo":"berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits","free":true,"listed":false,"github":"https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits","clone":"git clone https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits.git","description":"An open standard for capturing the WHY in git history","language":null,"stars":146,"topics":["agentic-ai","ai-git","ai-github-actions","autonomous-agents","claude-code","claude-skills","data-structures","git","opencode","opencode-skills"],"license":"MIT","category":"ai-agents","readme_excerpt":"Contextual Commits Conventional Commits standardised WHAT changed. Contextual Commits add WHY. A convention for embedding decision traces in git commit bodies. Every commit carries not just the code change, but the intent and reasoning that shaped it — structured as typed action lines that any tool can parse and any agent can query. No new tools. No infrastructure. Just better commits. --- Standard AI commit: This restates what the diff already shows. Zero signal added. Contextual commit: The subject line tells you what . The body tells you why . --- Motivation AI coding tools are everywhere. Trust in their output isn't. The gap is context. Every AI coding session produces three outputs: 1. Code changes — committed to git. Preserved. 2. Decisions — which approach was chosen, what was rejected, what constraints were found. Lost. 3. Understanding — deeper comprehension of how the system works and why. Lost. Two-thirds of every session's value evaporates when the conversation window closes. Commit history is the one context source every AI coding tool can access out of the box — yet the standard AI-generated commit body restates what the diff shows. What agents can't get from the diff is why an approach was chosen, what constraints shaped it, or what was tried and rejected. Git tracks branches, diffs, and history. The one thing it doesn't track is reasoning. The commit body has always been available for this. The context that disappears The agent proposes an approach you already","default_branch":null,"files":null,"tree":[],"storefront":"/r/berserkdisruptors","claimed":false,"request_supported":{"post":"https://gitbuyer.com/r/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits/request-supported","requests":0},"note":"indexed from public GitHub; nothing is for sale on this page. Clone it from GitHub. Paid listings live at /search."}