manual_slop/conductor/directives/verbose_commit_message_ban/v1.md

verbose_commit_message_ban — v1

Why this iteration: Lifted verbatim from AGENTS.md §"Process Anti-Patterns" #7 (lines 170-173). This is the baseline encoding — the symptom-rule-pair style currently in production. Future variants will test alternative encodings (rule-only, tabular) against this baseline.

Source: AGENTS.md:170-173

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7. The Verbose-Commit-Message Pattern (kill it)

Symptom: Your commit message is 50 lines. It contains the root cause analysis, the alternatives you considered, the side effects you considered, the cross-references, the "what this doesn't fix", the "what to verify", and a personal essay. The commit message is longer than the diff it describes.

Rule: A commit message is a 1-3 sentence summary. The body is for non-obvious "why" details, not for re-stating what the diff shows. If your commit message is longer than 15 lines, you are writing a report, not a commit message. Save the report for docs/reports/.