Workflow Commit

Commit changes with a signing handoff

Sandboxed agents cannot reach the signing key (YubiKey, GPG agent, OS keychain), so a commit made inside the sandbox either fails to sign or lands unsigned. This skill keeps history clean by handing the real commit off to the user through a commit.sh script they run outside the sandbox. Which path you take depends on whether you are in a git worktree.

1. Detect: worktree or main checkout

git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null || exit 1   # bail if not in a repo
[ "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)" = "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)" ] && echo main || echo worktree

When --git-dir and --git-common-dir differ you are in a linked worktree (agents commonly run on an agent/ branch); when they are equal you are in the main checkout. The two cases take different paths in step 3.

2. Write Conventional Commit messages

Group the working-tree changes into one or more logical commits, each with a Conventional Commit subject:

type(scope): summary

type is one of feat, fix, docs, chore, refactor, test, ci, build, perf, style. Signal a breaking change with ! after the type (feat!:) or a BREAKING CHANGE: footer. Keep one cohesive concern per commit and the subject in the imperative mood.

3a. Inside a worktree — commit, then re-sign

Commit normally at sensible stopping points; these land unsigned on the worktree branch. Then write a commit.sh at the worktree root whose only job is to re-sign the range you authored this session using the user's signing setup:

• Pick ` as the parent of your first commit this session — HEAD~` for a known count, or

$(git merge-base HEAD ) when the count is dynamic.

• The script re-signs every commit in ..HEAD, for example by rebasing the range and amending

each commit with the repository's configured signing command.

See [reference.md](reference.md) for a complete worktree commit.sh.

3b. Main checkout — do not commit, generate commit.sh

Do not run git commit. Instead write a commit.sh at the repo root containing the exact git add and git commit invocations you would have run — one git commit per logical commit, with the real messages and any trailers — for the user to run outside the sandbox where signing works.

See [reference.md](reference.md) for a complete main-checkout commit.sh.

4. The commit.sh contract (both paths)

Every commit.sh you write:

• starts with #!/usr/bin/env sh followed by set -eu;
• overwrites any prior commit.sh — the file is the current batch, not history;
• is created executable (chmod +x commit.sh) so the user runs it as ./commit.sh;
• ends with rm -- "$0" so it deletes itself after a successful run. Under set -eu a failed

git commit or re-sign aborts before the rm, leaving the script in place to fix and rerun.

Never add entries to the repository .gitignore while committing — ignore rules belong in the user's global ignore file, not the repo. When the script is written, tell the user it is ready and that they should run ./commit.sh outside the sandbox.

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: bitwise-media-group
• Source: bitwise-media-group/skills
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.