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Commit Message Guidelines

Format Requirements

• Use Conventional Commit Messages
• All changes MUST be in imperative mood

Types

Types MUST be one of the following:

• feat — A new feature
• fix — A bug fix
• refactor — A code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
• perf — A code change that improves performance
• style — Changes that do not affect the meaning of the code
• test — Adding missing tests or correcting existing tests
• docs — Documentation only changes (excluding: *.instructions.md, *.prompt.md, *.agent.md, as these are prompt artifacts)
• build — Changes that affect the build system or external dependencies
• ops — Changes to operational components
• chore — Other changes that do not modify src or test files

Scopes

Scopes MUST be one of the following:

• append — Multi-file CSV concatenation
• cli — CLI argument definitions
• columns — Column listing
• data — Value enum and typed parsers
• derive — Derived column expressions
• expr — Expression evaluation
• filter — Row-level filter parsing
• frequency — Frequency counts
• index — B-tree index operations
• install — Self-install
• io — Reader/writer I/O utilities
• join — CSV join operations
• process — Process subcommand
• rows — Row-level parsing
• schema — Schema model and inference
• stats — Summary statistics
• table — ASCII table rendering
• verify — Schema verification
• docs — Documentation
• tests — Test fixtures and integration tests
• bench — Benchmarks
• ci — CI/CD configuration
• harness — Agent harness artifacts

Description

• Description MUST be short and LESS THAN 100 bytes

Body (Optional)

For larger changes only:

• Body starts with a blank line
• Contains a summarized bulleted list (0-5 items)
• MUST be LESS THAN 300 bytes

Footer

• Footer MUST start with a blank line
• Must include an emoji that represents the change
• Must end with - Generated by Copilot

Example

feat(cli): add new authentication flow

- implement OAuth2 token exchange
- add refresh token rotation
- update configuration schema

🔒 - Generated by Copilot

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