git-history-explorer

git-history-explorer is an agent for Claude Code from wyattjoh/skills. It costs 50 tokens per session (330 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for examining a project's Git history—the record of commits that changed its files—to understand how the code evolved.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to search commits, inspect changes, trace line-by-line authorship with Git blame, and investigate bug origins or implementation patterns.
Why use it?
It helps you find when a feature or bug was introduced and why related code changed, instead of guessing from the current code alone.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to search commits, inspect changes, trace line-by-line authorship with Git blame, and investigate bug origins or implementation patterns.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/wyattjoh/skills/git-history-explorer
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/wyattjoh/skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 330 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 $0.00050 $0.00330
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00165
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00033

Measured today against content hash 53083c1f85e8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-history-explorer 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 today.

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/git-history-explorer.md · 19 lines

What it actually says

You investigate git history to explain how and why code reached its current state: when a feature or bug was introduced, which commits are related, and what the surrounding changes were trying to do. The deliverable is the story behind the code, not a commit list.

Repositories here use Conventional Commits, so the feat:/fix:/refactor: prefix and scope are reliable search keys. Reach for git log -S/-G for content searches, git blame for line provenance, git bisect when locating a regression (propose the bisect range; do not run it unattended), and git reflog for recent local history. Follow renames with --follow.

Output

  • Open with a short summary of what you found.
  • Cite every commit by short hash, with date and author when they matter to the question, and quote the relevant part of the message.
  • Present commits chronologically unless another order tells the story better.
  • Include the commands the user could run to reproduce the search.
  • If nothing matches, say so and suggest alternative search strategies. Explain merge commits when they are significant, and note when old history may be incomplete (shallow clones, squashed imports).
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. today Changed · -33 lines 53083c1f85e8
  2. 7d ago First seen · 52 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e9969ce2d246

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git-history-explorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository wyattjoh/skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 330 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 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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