How do you configure commit message customization for Dependabot pull requests?

The commit-message option lets you control the prefix and formatting of commit messages Dependabot generates — useful for teams following a specific commit convention (like Conventional Commits) that tooling elsewhere in their pipeline (changelog generators, semantic release tools) depends on.

updates:
  - package-ecosystem: "npm"
    directory: "/"
    schedule:
      interval: "weekly"
    commit-message:
      prefix: "chore"
      prefix-development: "chore(dev-deps)"
      include: "scope"

The prefix option sets the commit message prefix for production dependency updates, while prefix-development allows a different prefix specifically for development dependencies — letting teams distinguish between the two categories in their commit history and changelog output, rather than all Dependabot commits looking identical regardless of dependency type.

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