commit-message

A guide for writing Git commit messages, the permanent summaries attached to saved changes in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps draft messages for new commits, amended commits, and squashed commits, including a concise subject, behavior summary, and relevant follow-up references.
Why use it?
It keeps commit history useful by focusing on user-visible behavior, avoiding lengthy process explanations, and preserving pointers to related changes or issues.

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/lee-w/maigo/commit-message
Any agent
npx skills add Lee-W/maigo --skill commit-message
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Lee-W/maigo

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,133 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 $0.00080 $0.02133
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.01066
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00427
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00213

Measured 2d ago against content hash c0a08702b729, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-message 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.

skills/commit-message/SKILL.md · 125 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 125 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Commit Message

Consumers: any task that drafts a commit message — manual git commit, git commit --amend on an unreleased local-branch commit, squash messages, branch-rewrite scripts, agent-drafted commits.

Why this skill exists

Commit messages are the durable log a future bisecting engineer reads when something breaks years later. The reviewer reads the PR description; the future maintainer reads the commit log. They serve different audiences, and the failure mode of drafting agents is to conflate them.

Common failures:

  • Body explains "why the problem existed" or "what alternatives we considered" — that is PR-description content (motivation + discussion), not durable log.
  • Subject is internal-perspective ("Initialize Dag bundles in CLI get_dag function") instead of user-impact ("Fix airflow dags test command failure without serialized Dags").
  • Body forgets to leave forward pointers (newsfragment filename, related PR #, tracking issue URL) — the next reader has to do a network round-trip to recover them.
  • Body bloats to 5+ lines that duplicate the PR ## Why paragraph. git log becomes harder to scan, not easier.

This skill encodes the short, durable style. It pairs with github-title-description: the PR body carries motivation and test plan; the commit body carries durable facts + pointers.

Inputs

  1. Staged / proposed diffgit diff --staged, or the contents of the impending change if not yet staged.
  2. Existing commit context (when amending)git log <base>..HEAD --pretty=format:'%h %s%n%b' --no-merges. Match the existing subject style on amend; do not change the framing just because a polish round happened.
  3. Repo commit-style detection — does the repo enforce Conventional Commits?
    • pyproject.toml has [tool.commitizen] → Conventional Commits expected.
    • .cz.toml / .cz.json / cz.yaml → Conventional Commits expected.
    • commitlint.config.js / .commitlintrc* → usually Conventional Commits.
    • Repo has a documented convention that explicitly bans/avoids Conventional Commits (e.g. apache/airflow's AGENTS.md bans CC-style prefixes on commit subjects and enforces it via a commit-msg prek hook check-no-conventional-commit-message) → follow that repo convention; stay freeform / plain-imperative there.
    • None of the above (no CC tooling signal, no documented ban) → default to Conventional Commits (<type>(<scope>): <description>). This is the maigo user's personal drafting preference for their own repos when the repo itself has no opinion either way.

Read the full file on GitHub · 125 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. 2d ago First seen · 125 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A c0a08702b729

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-message is a skill published in the GitHub repository Lee-W/maigo (14 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 2,133 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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