wtf is cz-freecodecamp?

When multiple people work on the same codebase, their commit messages, the short notes describing what changed, tend to be inconsistent. Some people write detailed explanations, others jot down vague one-liners. This project, cz-freecodecamp, is a tool that helps standardize those messages for the freeCodeCamp codebase. The main benefit is straightforward: contributors get prompted with a series of questions that guide them toward writing properly formatted commit messages, reducing the back-and-forth where maintainers have to ask people to redo their submissions. Under the hood, this is an "adapter" for a tool called Commitizen. Commitizen replaces the normal git commit process with an interactive prompt, instead of typing a freeform message, you answer a few questions and the tool assembles a properly structured commit message for you. This adapter customizes those questions and the resulting format to match freeCodeCamp's specific conventions. Contributors run git cz instead of git commit, or use a built-in script, and the tool walks them through the process. The primary audience is anyone contributing code to freeCodeCamp's open-source repositories. If you're a volunteer developer submitting a bug fix or a new feature, this tool ensures your commit message follows the project's rules before it ever reaches a maintainer. It's essentially a guardrail, you fill in the blanks, and the tool formats everything correctly so your pull request is more likely to be accepted without revisions. This is a small, purpose-built project. It's not a general-purpose tool for arbitrary projects, it's tailored to freeCodeCamp's workflow and conventions. The README doesn't go into detail on exactly what format or question structure it enforces, you'd need to consult the main freeCodeCamp contributing guidelines for that. The tool is designed to be installed once on your machine and then used across freeCodeCamp's various repositories.