commit-unstaged

A workflow for reviewing uncommitted code changes, selecting specific files, and creating a Git commit. Git is a tool for tracking changes to code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want to inspect current changes and commit a focused set of files with a suitable message.
Why use it?
It helps avoid committing unrelated files or sensitive configuration by checking and staging the intended changes explicitly.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the git-commits plugin — 2 skills shipped together

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/jtsternberg/claude-plugins/commit-unstaged
Any agent
npx skills add jtsternberg/claude-plugins --skill commit-unstaged
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jtsternberg/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install git-commits, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 350 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 $0.00028 $0.00350
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00175
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 3d ago against content hash 462449f482dd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-unstaged 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 3d 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.

plugins/git-commits/skills/commit-unstaged/SKILL.md · 28 lines

What it actually says

Commit Unstaged Changes

Use this skill only when the user explicitly asks to stage and commit their current changes.

Arguments provided: $ARGUMENTS

Codex: if the invocation text above is not populated, use a commit message supplied after the skill name or in the current request. If none is available, infer the message from the diff.

Workflow

  1. Inspect the repository state with git status, git diff, and git diff --cached.
  2. Identify the files that belong in this commit. Do not use git add -A or git add .; stage each intended file by explicit path.
  3. Stop if the intended files include secrets or private configuration (for example .env, credential files, tokens, or private keys). Do not stage them.
  4. Review the staged diff. If it contains unrelated changes, unstage the unrelated paths or ask the user to split the work before committing.
  5. Respect a commit message supplied by the user. Otherwise, derive a concise conventional commit message from the staged diff and the repository's recent commit style (git log).
  6. Create the commit. Do not amend, use --no-verify, or push unless the user explicitly asks.
  7. Report the commit hash and the remaining git status state.

If there are no unstaged changes, say so and do not create an empty commit.

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 3d ago First seen · 28 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 462449f482dd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-unstaged is a skill published in the GitHub repository jtsternberg/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 350 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 2026-08-31.

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