scribe

scribe is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kimmingul/xllm. It costs 90 tokens per session (731 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A helper for writing Git-related text, such as commit messages, pull request descriptions, release notes, and changelog entries. It gathers the relevant Git information and asks an inexpensive available model to draft the wording.

In plain words
What is it for?
Drafting text for commits, pull requests, releases, and changelog entries from diffs and commit history.
Why use it?
It keeps routine writing out of the main coding conversation and can use a free local model first. Git actions such as pushing and tagging remain manual commands.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the xllm plugin — 7 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/kimmingul/xllm/scribe
Any agent
npx skills add kimmingul/xllm --skill scribe
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kimmingul/xllm

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install xllm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for scribe

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kimmingul/xllm/scribe.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/kimmingul/xllm/scribe)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/kimmingul/xllm/scribe"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/kimmingul/xllm/scribe.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 90 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 731 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 $0.00090 $0.00731
Opus 5 $0.00045 $0.00365
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00146
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00073

Measured 3d ago against content hash 719f7b85cd6b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

scribe 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.

skills/scribe/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

scribe — Cheap-prose lane for git chores (xllm)

Split of labor: deterministic collectors gather the diff/log (no LLM), the cheapest healthy advisor writes only the prose, and you execute the git command. push/tag are pure mechanics — no model call at all.

Resolve the script

Claude Code: "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/xllm-scribe.js". Other hosts: <plugin-root>/scripts/xllm-scribe.js (two directories above this SKILL.md).

Run (Bash tool)

node <xllm-scribe.js> commit                      # staged diff → commit message
node <xllm-scribe.js> pr --base main              # commits+diffstat → PR title/body
node <xllm-scribe.js> release --from v0.5.0       # log range → release notes
node <xllm-scribe.js> notes --from v0.5.0         # log range → changelog entry
# all accept --provider <spec> to override routing

Message arrives on stdout (diagnostics on stderr), so:

MSG=$(node <xllm-scribe.js> commit) && git commit -m "$MSG"

Contract

  • Routing: scribe role — local-first (free), release/notes auto-escalate to a cloud model when one is healthy (narrative needs judgment). Pin per project: --set-role scribe ollama:qwen3.6:latest@low.
  • Output is validated deterministically (Conventional Commits format, subject ≤72 chars, no fences, no invented facts instruction) with one corrective retry; exit 3 means validation failed — show the raw text to the user for review instead of using it blindly.
  • Privacy: the diff goes only to the routed advisor and is never persisted by xllm (no artifact) — the git object itself is the record. For sensitive repos keep scribe on local models.
  • Show the generated message to the user (or apply directly if they asked you to commit), then run the git command yourself. xllm never runs git.
  • Advisors stay read-only throughout — this lane generates text, nothing else.

When NOT to use

  • push / tag creation → pure git commands; no model needed at all.
  • Release strategy, breaking-change judgment, "should we ship" → that is analysis, not scribing; use ask/review roles with a strong model.
  • If no advisor is healthy: on Claude Code, spawn a host-native cheap-model subagent instead (Agent tool with model: haiku — pass it the same collector output and template contract); otherwise write the prose yourself. Never block the user on a missing advisor.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 3d ago First seen · 65 lines · 90 tokens per session scan A 719f7b85cd6b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

scribe is a skill published in the GitHub repository kimmingul/xllm (2 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 90 tokens to every session and 731 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.

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