git-squash

A Git workflow for combining several commits into fewer commits, with one consistent commit message. A commit is a saved change in a Git project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean up a task branch before sharing or merging it by turning a series of small commits into a smaller set of commits.
Why use it?
It avoids using Git’s interactive rebase command directly and keeps a backup and recovery approach for the squash operation.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,267 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 $0.00025 $0.03267
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.01633
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00653
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00327

Measured 2d ago against content hash 465bdfa6e107, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

git-squash 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 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

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

SQUASH_POLICY=$(grep -A10 "### Squash Policy" .claude/cat/PROJECT.md 2>/dev/null | grep "Strategy:" | sed 's/.*Strategy:\s*//' | head -1)
plugin/skills/git-squash/SKILL.md · 399 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 · 399 lines · 25 tokens per session scan B 465bdfa6e107

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-squash is a skill published in the GitHub repository cowwoc/cat (101 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 3,267 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.