conventional-commit

Rules for writing Conventional Commits, a shared format such as `fix(api): handle timeout`, for describing code changes in commit messages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to compose or check commit messages before committing or pushing changes in the EndogenAI Workflows repository.
Why use it?
Consistent commit messages make changes easier to understand, review, and organize automatically.

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/endogenai/dogma/conventional-commit
Any agent
npx skills add EndogenAI/dogma --skill conventional-commit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/EndogenAI/dogma

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,134 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 $0.00094 $0.02134
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.01067
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00213

Measured yesterday against content hash a3268a5cfd17, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

conventional-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 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.

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.

.github/skills/conventional-commit/SKILL.md · 206 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 206 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conventional Commit

This skill enacts the Algorithms Before Tokens axiom from MANIFESTO.md by encoding commit message conventions as a reusable procedure, eliminating per-session re-prompting overhead. Commit discipline is governed by AGENTS.md § Commit Discipline and CONTRIBUTING.md § Commit Discipline. When this skill and those documents conflict, the primary documents take precedence.


1. Format

<type>(<scope>): <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]

Rules for the first line:

  • Imperative mood: "add", "fix", "update" — not "adds", "fixed", "updating"
  • Lowercase throughout (type, scope, description)
  • No period at the end of the description
  • Maximum 72 characters for the first line
  • Scope is in parentheses, not brackets

Valid: docs(guides): add session-management skill reference Invalid: Updated the docs. / DOCS: Updates guides / docs(guides): Added session-management skill reference.


2. Types

Type When to use Example for this repo
feat New capability, new agent, new script feat(agents): add executive-docs agent
fix Correction to existing content or code fix(scripts): handle missing .tmp dir in prune_scratchpad
docs Documentation only — no code or script change docs(guides): clarify encoding checkpoint format
chore Tooling, scripts, templates, config — no production logic chore(scripts): add scaffold_workplan.py for plan generation
test New or updated tests test(scripts): add coverage for validate_synthesis error cases
refactor Restructuring without content or behaviour change refactor(agents): extract session-mgmt handoff to skill
ci CI configuration, workflow files, pre-commit hooks ci: add validate_skill_files check to lint job
perf Performance improvement perf(scripts): cache URL validation results in fetch_source

Read the full file on GitHub · 206 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. yesterday First seen · 206 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A a3268a5cfd17

Subscribe to this mod's changes

conventional-commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository EndogenAI/dogma (2 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 2,134 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.