commit

Guidelines for writing commit messages and pull-request descriptions and for preparing clean commits.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them when committing changes, opening or updating a pull request, selecting files to stage, writing release notes, or pushing an explicitly requested branch.
Why use it?
They help keep commits focused and readable while preventing secrets, local files, and unrelated changes from entering shared history.

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/kodingdev/meridian/commit
Any agent
npx skills add KodingDev/meridian --skill commit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KodingDev/meridian

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 978 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 $0.00978
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00489
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00098

Measured yesterday against content hash 471f1863e3d0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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.

skills/commit/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.

Commit

Invariants

  • Never commit secrets, environment files, local Meridian artifacts, or unintended generated/binary files.
  • Never force-push or rewrite shared history without explicit authorization.

Commit flow

  1. Inspect git status, staged and unstaged diffs, and recent commit style.
  2. Identify the files belonging to the requested change. Ask only when staged scope is materially ambiguous; otherwise stage the intended files narrowly.
  3. Exclude local-only or unrelated files without reverting their contents.
  4. Draft the message per the conventions below.
  5. Commit without a redundant approval prompt.
  6. If push was explicitly requested, push to the current tracking branch. Ask before choosing a remote or branch that cannot be inferred, and before any destructive recovery from rejection.
  7. Move the Status line of any spec or sketch this work delivers to SHIPPED <sha>.

Both artifacts

They are read by an engineer who was not there: months later, holding the diff, with no memory of the work.

Every sentence stands alone. Describe what the code does and why it does it, in terms a reader holding only the diff can follow. "As discussed", "after the rebase", "addressed the review comment", "still failing from before" all fail that test: they point at a session the reader never saw. Circumstantial detail belongs in conversation instead.

Repository convention outranks this skill. Read recent merged commits and pull requests, and use the pull request template when one exists: its subject grammar, its sectioning, its label and issue-linking practice. Introduce no section the repository does not already use.

Commit messages

  • Subject in the repository's convention, imperative mood, one line, no trailing period.
  • A body when the change needs a reason: why it exists, what behavior changed. Self-evident changes take no body.
  • One commit is one coherent change.

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. yesterday First seen · 65 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 471f1863e3d0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository KodingDev/meridian (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 978 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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