Commit Check

Everything you need for commit-check

• Free & Powerful

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  A fully open-source solution for validating commits, branches, and more — simple, reliable, and community-driven.

• Zero Configuration

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  Works right out of the box with smart defaults. Power users can easily customize rules to fit their team’s workflow.

• Works Everywhere

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  GitHub Actions, pre-commit hooks, command line, or MCP server — integrate Commit Check anywhere your code lives.

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Used by developers and organizations worldwide in their production workflows.

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Quick Start

GitHub ActionsPre-commitCommand LineMCP Server

Add Commit Check Action to your workflow in seconds:

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v5
    with:
      ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}  # Checkout PR HEAD commit
      fetch-depth: 0  # Required for merge-base checks
  - uses: commit-check/commit-check-action@v2
    env:
      GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} # Needed for PR comments
    with:
      message: true
      branch: true
      author-name: true
      author-email: true
      job-summary: true
      pr-comments: ${{ github.event_name == 'pull_request' }}

Add Commit Check to your .pre-commit-config.yaml:

repos:
  repo: https://github.com/commit-check/commit-check
  rev: <tag or revision>
  hooks:
  -   id: check-message
  -   id: check-branch
  -   id: check-author-name
  -   id: check-author-email

Install and run locally:

pip install commit-check

# Validate message from STDIN
echo "feat: new feature" | commit-check -m

# Validate message from file
commit-check -m commit_message.txt

# Validate the latest git commit message
commit-check -m

# And more...

Add to your AI coding agent's MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "commit-check": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": ["commit-check-mcp"]
    }
  }
}

Then your agent can validate commit messages, branch names, author info, and more with structured results.

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