Header Patterns — Action Verbs & Effort Groupings

Status: Scaffold — to be filled with catalog of observed patterns from Lossless repos.

Action Verb Catalog

Primary actions:

• feat — New feature, new capability
• fix — Bug fix, correction
• doc — Documentation changes
• refactor — Code restructure without behavior change
• style — Formatting, whitespace
• test — Adding/updating tests
• chore — Maintenance, deps, tooling

Lossless-specific actions:

• skill — Skill file changes (lossless-skills repo)
• changelog — Changelog entry added/updated
• submodule — Submodule pointer update

TBD: When to use each, edge cases, combining actions.

Effort Grouping Patterns

TBD: Catalog of effort grouping styles from real commits:

• Package/site names (theme-system, reach-edu-hub)
• File names (mode-switcher, theme.css)
• System names (frontend, api, content-pipeline)
• Concern names (auth, seo, og-images)

Combining Patterns

TBD: When to use multiple effort groupings, when to chain actions, examples of complex headers.