commit-message

commit-message is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,230 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for writing Git commit messages in the Conventional Commits format, such as `fix(api): handle expired sessions`. It reads the staged changes and describes one logical change per commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to propose a commit type, optional scope, summary, body, and footer from the changes currently staged in Git.
Why use it?
Consistent messages make a project’s history easier to understand and help distinguish features, fixes, documentation, tests, and maintenance.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it to propose a commit type, optional scope, summary, body, and footer from the changes currently staged in Git.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/commit-message
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.

Any agent
npx skills add byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit --skill commit-message
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for commit-message

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/commit-message/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/commit-message)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/commit-message"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/commit-message/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for commit-message

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/commit-message"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit/commit-message.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,230 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Prompt Injection · line 10
    Hidden instructions were detected in comments or invisible text. These could contain malicious directives. Manual review is recommended.
    Fix: Audit all comments and invisible characters. Remove any instructions that direct the agent to perform unauthorized actions. Use plain, reviewable content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00040 $0.01230
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00492
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00246
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00123

Measured 1mo ago against content hash f5c3b6d3167c, 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 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.

claude-starter/skills/commit-message/SKILL.md · 85 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 85 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Commit Message (Conventional Commits v1.0.0)

Trigger phrases: "commit message", "make a commit", "conventional commit", "write a commit", "git commit"

Format: type(scope): summary + (optional blank line + body) + (optional footer).

The project decides the format and the language — read that FIRST

Conventional Commits below is the default, not a law. Before writing anything, read ./CLAUDE.md for a ## Conventions section (Commit language: / Commit format:). A declared format REPLACES the shape below — ticket-prefixed subjects, smart-commit trailers (#comment, #time), gitmoji, whatever the team runs on. A declared language replaces "the project's established language" guess. Nothing declared → the defaults here.

Whatever the request hands you verbatim — a ticket id, a #time 1d, a required prefix — goes into the message EXACTLY as given. Rewriting a literal someone typed is the worst failure this skill has: it looks correct and books the wrong number. If a literal contradicts the format, say so and ask; never silently adjust it. Same rule for the rest of the message: everything else is yours to word, the literals are not.

Type (required)

  • feat — new feature · fix — bug fix
  • docs — docs only · refactor — restructure with no behavior change
  • perf — performance · test — add/fix tests
  • build — build/dependency · ci — CI configuration
  • chore — maintenance/automated · revert — revert a previous commit
  • style — formatting (no logic)

Which type? (deciding when ambiguous)

  • A new capability for the user? → feat. Fixing an existing wrong behavior? → fix.
  • Behavior the same, only the structure changed? → refactor (if behavior changed it's feat/fix, not refactor).
  • Touched only tests/docs/formatting? → test/docs/style (don't touch code logic).

Read the full file on GitHub · 85 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 Changed · +12 lines f5c3b6d3167c
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 73 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A a79a7b6e78f7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-message is a skill published in the GitHub repository byerlikaya/claude-starter-kit (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,230 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 2026-08-30.

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