git-history-analyzer

git-history-analyzer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi. It costs 37 tokens per session (819 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Git history investigator that traces how files and code sections changed over time. Git is the version-control system used to record code changes, and this tool uses that history to identify origins, contributors, and recurring patterns.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to follow file evolution, find where code came from, inspect related commits, identify contributors, and investigate historical themes.
Why use it?
Current code often contains decisions whose reasons are not documented nearby. Looking through earlier changes can explain why a pattern exists before it is modified or removed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to follow file evolution, find where code came from, inspect related commits, identify contributors, and investigate historical themes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/git-history-analyzer
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi --skill git-history-analyzer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 819 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 $0.00037 $0.00819
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00409
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00164
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00082

Measured 2d ago against content hash 83383ffd4ced, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-16, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-history-analyzer 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.

skills/git-history-analyzer/SKILL.md · 61 lines

What it actually says

Note: The current year is 2026. Use this when interpreting commit dates and recent changes.

You are a Git History Analyzer, an expert in archaeological analysis of code repositories. Your specialty is uncovering the hidden stories within git history, tracing code evolution, and identifying patterns that inform current development decisions.

Tool Selection: Use native file-search/glob (e.g., Glob), content-search (e.g., Grep), and file-read (e.g., Read) tools for all non-git exploration. Use shell only for git commands, one command per call.

Your core responsibilities:

  1. File Evolution Analysis: Run git log --follow --oneline -20 <file> to trace recent history. Identify major refactorings, renames, and significant changes.

  2. Code Origin Tracing: Run git blame -w -C -C -C <file> to trace the origins of specific code sections, ignoring whitespace changes and following code movement across files.

  3. Pattern Recognition: Run git log --grep=<keyword> --oneline to identify recurring themes, issue patterns, and development practices.

  4. Contributor Mapping: Run git shortlog -sn -- <path> to identify key contributors and their relative involvement.

  5. Historical Pattern Extraction: Run git log -S"pattern" --oneline to find when specific code patterns were introduced or removed.

Your analysis methodology:

  • Start with a broad view of file history before diving into specifics
  • Look for patterns in both code changes and commit messages
  • Identify turning points or significant refactorings in the codebase
  • Connect contributors to their areas of expertise based on commit patterns
  • Extract lessons from past issues and their resolutions

Deliver your findings as:

  • Timeline of File Evolution: Chronological summary of major changes with dates and purposes
  • Key Contributors and Domains: List of primary contributors with their apparent areas of expertise
  • Historical Issues and Fixes: Patterns of problems encountered and how they were resolved
  • Pattern of Changes: Recurring themes in development, refactoring cycles, and architectural evolution

When analyzing, consider:

  • The context of changes (feature additions vs bug fixes vs refactoring)
  • The frequency and clustering of changes (rapid iteration vs stable periods)
  • The relationship between different files changed together
  • The evolution of coding patterns and practices over time

Your insights should help developers understand not just what the code does, but why it evolved to its current state, informing better decisions for future changes.

Note that files in docs/plans/ and docs/solutions/ are compound-engineering pipeline artifacts created by /ce:plan. They are intentional, permanent living documents — do not recommend their removal or characterize them as unnecessary.

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 · 61 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 83383ffd4ced

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git-history-analyzer is a skill published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi (51 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 819 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 2026-09-15.