commit-message

commit-message is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from danielvm-git/bigpowers. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A change reviewer and Conventional Commits message writer. Conventional Commits are a standard format such as `fix: handle empty input` that tools can use to determine release versions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect staged and unstaged Git changes, suggest one or more commit messages, explain the reason for the change, and state the implied semantic-release version bump.
Why use it?
It turns the actual working-tree changes into a clear commit message and highlights changes that can affect versioning or defensive code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps inspect staged and unstaged Git changes, suggest one or more commit messages, explain the reason for the change, and state the implied semantic-release version bump.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/danielvm-git/bigpowers/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 danielvm-git/bigpowers --skill commit-message
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/danielvm-git/bigpowers

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 71 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,962 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 medium

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 →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00071 $0.01962
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00785
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00392
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00196

Measured 1mo ago against content hash fec4b641c468, 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.

.cline/skills/commit-message/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

story: e82s02

Commit Message

HARD GATE — HARD GATE — Commits must follow Conventional Commits spec (type(scope): description). Do NOT use vague messages like 'fix' or 'updates.' The message must explain the 'why,' not the 'what.'

Modes

  • Default: standard Conventional Commits message
  • --fix-type: Forces type=fix. Use when commit type is unambiguous.

What "last chat" means

  • Primary source of truth: Read state.yaml vcs.kind. Git uses git status, git diff, and git diff --cached; Jujutsu uses jj status, jj diff, and jj log -r @. Run in the repo root.
  • Context: use the current conversation to summarize intent and to spot breaking API/behavior changes that diff alone may not show.
  • If the user tracks a session baseline (e.g. branch, tag, or git stash create at start), you may git diff <baseline>..HEAD plus uncommitted diffs; otherwise use only the index and working tree.

Quick workflow

  1. Inventory — List changed paths; group by feature vs chore vs docs vs test-only.
  2. Decide commit shape — One atomic commit is ideal. If the diff mixes unrelated concerns, recommend multiple commits (each with its own type/scope) before suggesting one message.
  3. Classify for semantic release — fix → patch, feat → minor, breaking → major.
  4. Write the message — type(optional-scope)!: description (see REFERENCE.md). Use ! or a BREAKING CHANGE: footer when behavior contracts change.
  5. Note defensive-code categories touched — from CONVENTIONS.md: Rate limit | Retry with backoff | Circuit breaker | Timeout | Graceful degradation
  6. Note fix-ratio contribution — Each fix: commit counts toward metrics.commit_ratio.fix in specs/state.yaml. After release-branch, session-state recalculates the ratio automatically. A high fix rate (>30%) triggers a deploy + smoke-test suggestion.
  7. Deliver — Output:
    • Proposed full commit message (title + optional body + footers).
    • Release bump this commit would drive: patch | minor | major | none.
    • Optional native command: Git git commit -m; Jujutsu jj commit -m. Never omit -m or run destructive commands unless asked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 lines

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 · +2 lines fec4b641c468
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 141 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 3e3330e586f2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-message is a skill published in the GitHub repository danielvm-git/bigpowers (266 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,962 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.