git-commit

Guidance for creating Git commit messages that clearly describe the changes made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing descriptive commit messages for code changes.
Why use it?
It helps teammates understand a project's history without opening every changed file.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,894 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00012 $0.01894
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00947
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00379
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00189

Measured yesterday against content hash 604b87525bf8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

git-commit scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 yesterday.

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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

COMMIT_FORMAT=$(grep -A10 "### Commit Format" .claude/cat/PROJECT.md 2>/dev/null)
plugin/skills/git-commit/SKILL.md · 288 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. yesterday First seen · 288 lines · 12 tokens per session scan B 604b87525bf8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository cowwoc/cat (101 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,894 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.