commit-helper

A guide for preparing Git commits and pull requests in the CockroachDB project, including message and release-note conventions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating CockroachDB commits or pull requests and writing their release notes.
Why use it?
It helps changes follow the project's expected format before they are committed or proposed for review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/cockroachdb/cockroach/commit-helper
Any agent
npx skills add cockroachdb/cockroach --skill commit-helper
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00032 $0.01169
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00584
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00117

Measured 2d ago against content hash 51cc0f0745fd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-helper 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/skills/commit-helper/SKILL.md · 122 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 122 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 51cc0f0745fd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-helper is a skill published in the GitHub repository cockroachdb/cockroach (32,437 stars, last pushed 5d ago), with no licence file. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.

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