I have dedicated checkpoint and commit skills. Checkpoint has it run my review skill, then run my commit skill. The commit skill just asks it to suggest commit messages for my review. Having these skills in place has resulted in claude preferring to use the commit skill instead of committing on its own, and suggesting commit messages to me before actually doing the commit.
Who likes writing commit messages? In the abstract, perfectly spherical developer mindset, I'd spend hours writing the best commit message to go with the most elegant and perfect, beautiful code that I'm comitting, but the real world with meetings and life demands is greasier and grimer than that. Letting the LLM start off with the commit messages for me to edit with additional details has been a boon to productivity. Staring at an empty $EDITOR my brain goes blank, but with a framework of what's going on, I find the details for me to add flow more easily.
