git-commit

git-commit is a skill for Claude Code from kolodkin/devpowers. It costs 52 tokens per session (935 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for creating a Git commit from changes that are already staged. Git is the version-control system used to record changes to code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you need to inspect staged changes, choose a project-appropriate commit message, and create the commit safely.
Why use it?
It prevents accidental staging of extra files and handles changes made by pre-commit checks while preserving the original staged file list.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the devpowers plugin — 12 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

Good fit Use it when you need to inspect staged changes, choose a project-appropriate commit message, and create the commit safely.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kolodkin/devpowers/git-commit
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 1 MCP server.

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Per session 52 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 935 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 $0.00052 $0.00935
Opus 5.5 $0.00021 $0.00374
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00093

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 119180447841, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-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 1mo 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-commit/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Commit Skill

Create a git commit with the user's staged changes using the project's commit type convention, and handle pre-commit hook modifications safely.

Invocation Format

/git-commit [optional commit message]

Examples:

/git-commit
/git-commit fix login redirect loop
/git-commit add user profile endpoint

Step 1 — Inspect Staged Changes

Run these in parallel:

git diff --staged --name-only
git diff --staged

Use --name-only output as the authoritative list of originally staged files — you will need it verbatim if a pre-commit hook modifies files. Use the full staged diff to draft the commit message.

If the output of --name-only is empty, stop and tell the user nothing is staged — do NOT run git add on their behalf.

If git status reveals a mid-rebase, mid-merge, mid-cherry-pick, or detached HEAD, stop and surface that to the user before committing.

Step 2 — Determine the Commit Message

If the user supplied a message in the invocation:

  • If it already has a recognized type prefix (e.g. feature:, bugfix:), use it verbatim.
  • If it's a bare phrase, prepend the most appropriate type based on the staged diff (see types below).
  • Preserve any multi-line body the user provided.

Otherwise, analyze the staged diff and draft a message using this project's type convention:

  • feature: — new features
  • bugfix: — bug fixes
  • refactor: — code refactoring
  • cleanup: — code cleanup

Multiple types can be combined when appropriate, e.g. [feature, cleanup]: description.

Message structure:

<type>: <short description>

<optional longer description>

Keep the subject line concise (target 50 chars, hard wrap at 72) and focus the body on the "why".

Step 3 — Get User Approval

Show the proposed message to the user and wait for approval before committing. Let them edit it. Skip this step only if the user supplied a complete message (subject + body, or an explicit "commit as-is" instruction).

Step 4 — Create the Commit

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 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. 1mo ago First seen · 111 lines · 52 tokens per session scan A 119180447841

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git-commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository kolodkin/devpowers (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 52 tokens to every session and 935 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.