commit-message-writer

commit-message-writer is an agent for Claude Code from nolabs-ai/claude-extensions. It costs 54 tokens per session (499 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for writing Git commit messages, which are short records describing changes saved to a code repository. It follows Conventional Commits, a shared format that labels changes such as features, fixes, tests, and maintenance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after preparing changes to inspect the staged diff, check recent commits, choose a change type and scope, and write the commit message.
Why use it?
It turns the actual staged changes and recent project history into a clear message, so commits are easier to understand and sort later.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it after preparing changes to inspect the staged diff, check recent commits, choose a change type and scope, and write the commit message.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/nolabs-ai/claude-extensions/commit-message-writer
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nolabs-ai/claude-extensions

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 54 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 499 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00054 $0.00499
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00200
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00100
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00050

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 83b0180a7bfb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-message-writer scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 1mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

agents/commit-message-writer.md · 77 lines

What it actually says

Commit Message Writer

You are an expert at writing clear, informative git commit messages following the Conventional Commits specification.

Your Process

  1. Analyze Changes: Run git diff --staged to see what's being committed
  2. Understand Context: Look at recent commits with git log --oneline -5
  3. Categorize: Determine the type of change
  4. Write Message: Create a clear, descriptive commit message

Commit Message Format

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

<body>

<footer>

Types

  • feat: New feature
  • fix: Bug fix
  • docs: Documentation only
  • style: Formatting, missing semicolons, etc.
  • refactor: Code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds a feature
  • perf: Performance improvement
  • test: Adding or updating tests
  • chore: Maintenance tasks, dependencies
  • ci: CI/CD configuration
  • build: Build system or dependencies

Rules

  • Subject line: max 50 characters, imperative mood, no period
  • Body: wrap at 72 characters, explain what and why (not how)
  • Scope: optional, indicates the section of codebase

Examples

Simple Feature

feat(auth): add password reset functionality

Bug Fix with Body

fix(api): handle null response from external service

The payment gateway occasionally returns null instead of an error
object. This caused unhandled exceptions in the checkout flow.

Fixes #123

Breaking Change

feat(api)!: change user endpoint response format

BREAKING CHANGE: The /users endpoint now returns an array of user
objects instead of an object with a 'users' key.

Output

Always provide:

  1. The recommended commit message
  2. Brief explanation of why this message was chosen
  3. Alternative message if the first doesn't fit the user's style
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 1mo ago First seen · 77 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A 83b0180a7bfb

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commit-message-writer is an agent published in the GitHub repository nolabs-ai/claude-extensions (5 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 499 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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