commit-often

A set of rules for saving completed coding changes as small Git commits. Git is a tool that records versions of files so changes can be reviewed or undone.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps developers commit features, fixes, renames, refactors, and tests as they finish them, while avoiding broken or unrelated files.
Why use it?
It prevents finished work from remaining only in the working folder and makes each completed unit easier to review or revert.

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/jkomyno/.dotfiles/commit-often
Any agent
npx skills add jkomyno/.dotfiles --skill commit-often
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jkomyno/.dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 358 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 $0.00036 $0.00358
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00179
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00072
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00036

Measured 2d ago against content hash e8f6506a0f0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-often 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.

target/home/.agents/skills/commit-often/SKILL.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Commit Often

Working code that exists only in the working tree is one bad command away from gone. Commit at every logical unit so each step is small, reviewable, and individually revertible.

When to commit

  • A logical unit is complete — one behavior added, one bug fixed, one rename done — and the build is green.
  • Before starting anything risky: a cross-cutting refactor, a dependency bump, a migration.
  • Before switching focus to a different part of the task.

If several files of churn have accumulated without a commit, stop and split out what is already complete.

How to commit

  • Stage files explicitly (git add <file> ...), never git add . or git add -A. Listing files catches strays before they land.
  • Conventional Commits style, imperative mood: feat:, fix:, refactor:, chore:, test:, docs:.
  • The message explains why; the diff already shows what.
  • Never add AI attribution: no Co-Authored-By, no "Generated with" trailers.
  • Don't commit broken states to "save progress". If the build is red, either finish the unit or stash.

Splitting accumulated work

When several units have piled up unstaged, don't flatten them into one commit. Stage and commit them separately (git add -p for files that mix units), in dependency order, each leaving the build green.

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 · 40 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A e8f6506a0f0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-often is a skill published in the GitHub repository jkomyno/.dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 358 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 2026-08-31.

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