commit-changes

A command guide for staging every project change and creating one detailed Git commit, where Git records a set of file changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you are ready to commit work. It covers checking the current changes, reviewing recent commit style, staging files, and writing a summary and explanation for the commit.
Why use it?
It removes the need to decide which files to stage or how to structure the commit message. It also reminds you to inspect the changes and avoid committing secrets such as passwords or tokens.

Command for Claude Code

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/stephengpope/thepopebot/commit-changes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stephengpope/thepopebot

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 9 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 340 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00009 $0.00340
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00170
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00068
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00034

Measured 2d ago against content hash 57d648a91f06, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-changes 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 2d 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.

.claude/commands/commit-changes.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Create a git commit for all current changes. Follow these steps exactly:

Step 1 — Gather context

Run these in parallel:

  • git status (never use -uall)
  • git diff and git diff --cached to see all staged and unstaged changes
  • git log --oneline -5 to see recent commit message style

Step 2 — Stage everything

Run git add -A to stage ALL changes (tracked, untracked, deleted). Do NOT selectively stage files — always commit everything together. This overrides any default guidance about selective staging.

Step 3 — Write the commit message

Analyze ALL the changes and write a commit message that:

  • Has a short summary line (under 72 chars) with a conventional prefix (fix:, feat:, refactor:, chore:, docs:, etc.)
  • Leaves a blank line after the summary
  • Includes a body that explains WHAT changed and WHY, grouped by area if there are multiple changes
  • Is detailed but not excessive — hit the sweet spot between "fixed stuff" and a novel

Do NOT commit files that look like secrets (.env, credentials, tokens).

Step 4 — Commit

Use a HEREDOC for the message:

git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
summary line here

Body here.
EOF
)"

Step 5 — Verify

Run git status to confirm the commit succeeded.

If there are $ARGUMENTS, use them as additional context for the commit message.

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. 2d ago First seen · 45 lines · 9 tokens per session scan A 57d648a91f06

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-changes is a command published in the GitHub repository stephengpope/thepopebot (1,854 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 9 tokens to every session and 340 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.