commit

A Git workflow for staging vault files and creating conventional commit messages in UK English. Git is a tool that records changes to files over time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to stage selected vault changes, commit them with a supplied or generated message, or amend the previous commit.
Why use it?
It helps you review exactly what will be saved and avoid committing secrets or unrelated files. It also keeps commit messages consistent and easy to understand.

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/davidroliverba/architectkb/commit
Any agent
npx skills add DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB --skill commit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 657 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00013 $0.00657
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00131
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00066

Measured 2d ago against content hash b257c78dbb8a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit 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/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Commit Vault Changes

Stage and commit changes to the vault with properly formatted UK English conventional commit messages.

Usage

/commit                    # Auto-detect changes and commit
/commit -m "message"       # Commit with a specific message
/commit --amend            # Amend the previous commit (use sparingly)

Workflow

1. Review Changes

git status
git diff --stat

2. Stage Changes

Stage specific files rather than using git add -A:

  • Never stage: .env, credentials, .secrets.baseline (unless updated by detect-secrets)
  • Use git add -u for modified/deleted files with Unicode filenames (avoids octal encoding issues)
  • Use git lfs track first for large binary files (PPTX, PDF >100MB)

3. Compose Commit Message

Follow these conventions:

  • UK English spelling (e.g., "organise", "summarise", "colour")
  • Imperative mood in subject line (e.g., "Add meeting note" not "Added meeting note")
  • Subject line under 72 characters
  • Body explains the "why" not the "what" (the diff shows the what)
  • Always include the co-author tag

4. Commit Format

<type>: <subject>

<optional body>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <[email protected]>

Types:

Type When to Use
Add New notes, skills, scripts, templates
Update Enhancements to existing notes or config
Fix Bug fixes, broken links, frontmatter errors
Refactor Restructuring without changing meaning
Archive Moving notes to Archive/
Remove Deleting deprecated content
Docs Documentation-only changes (CLAUDE.md, READMEs)

5. Pre-commit Checks

The vault has pre-commit hooks that may:

  • Run detect-secrets (may need .secrets.baseline update)
  • Check for large files (use git LFS for >100MB)
  • Fix trailing whitespace and EOF

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 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. 2d ago First seen · 87 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A b257c78dbb8a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository DavidROliverBA/ArchitectKB (50 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 657 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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