summarize-changes-headless

summarize-changes-headless is a skill for Claude Code from davila7/claude-with-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (422 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Git tool that turns uncommitted code changes into a short, structured summary with separate sections for changes and risks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to summarize changes not yet committed to Git in automated scripts, CI pipelines, or command-line runs without an interactive user.
Why use it?
It removes the need to read and explain a diff manually. Its fixed format can be captured or processed by scripts and continuous integration (CI) systems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: dynamic context !`command`.

Good fit Use it to summarize changes not yet committed to Git in automated scripts, CI pipelines, or command-line runs without an interactive user.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/davila7/claude-with-skills/02-headless
About the project

Claude With Skills is a progressive course that teaches developers to create reusable, portable Agent Skills for Claude Code, from basic SKILL.md files to advanced automation and plugin packaging. It is intended for developers who want repeatable instructions and workflows instead of repeatedly pasting the same guidance. The catalogue contains the course's skills, agents, and instruction.

davila7/claude-with-skills · 12 stars · on GitHub · claude-with-skills.vercel.app

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 davila7/claude-with-skills --skill 02-headless
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/davila7/claude-with-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 422 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.
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 $0.00045 $0.00422
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00211
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00084
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00042

Measured 12d ago against content hash 05d37a97b287, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

summarize-changes-headless 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 12d 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.

src/content/docs/01-basic/exercises/solutions/02-headless/SKILL.md · 42 lines

What it actually says

Current changes

!git diff HEAD

Instructions

If the diff above is empty, output exactly: No uncommitted changes.

Otherwise, output the summary in the following format with no surrounding prose:

SUMMARY
- [bullet point describing the first logical change]
- [bullet point describing the second logical change]
[continue as needed, two to five bullets maximum]

RISKS
- [risk] or NONE

Rules for the SUMMARY section:

  • Each bullet describes a logical change, not a file change. If three files were modified to implement one feature, that is one bullet.
  • Use present tense: "Add validation for email field" not "Added" or "Adding".
  • Maximum 80 characters per bullet.

Rules for the RISKS section:

  • List only genuine risks: missing error handling, hardcoded credentials, removed tests, breaking API changes.
  • If there are no risks, write NONE on a single line.
  • Do not list stylistic observations as risks.

Output nothing else. No preamble, no "Here is the summary:", no closing remarks. The output must be parseable by a script that splits on the SUMMARY and RISKS headers.


Note: this skill is optimized for headless use with claude -p "/summarize-changes-headless". The concise, structured output can be captured with claude -p "/summarize-changes-headless" > summary.txt and processed by downstream tools. Compare this to the interactive summarize-changes skill, which produces more readable prose suited to an interactive session. In headless mode, conciseness and consistent structure matter more than readability, because there is no follow-up turn to ask for clarification or a reformatted response.

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. 12d ago First seen · 42 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 05d37a97b287

Subscribe to this mod's changes

summarize-changes-headless is a skill published in the GitHub repository davila7/claude-with-skills (12 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 422 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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