history

history is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lis186/SourceAtlas. It costs 18 tokens per session (2,441 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool for studying a repository’s Git history, including which files change often, which files change together, and who has worked on them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find code hotspots, hidden file relationships, contributor coverage, and risk areas for planning maintenance or refactoring.
Why use it?
It reveals areas that may be risky, tightly connected, or dependent on knowledge held by only a few contributors.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sourceatlas plugin — 14 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/lis186/sourceatlas/history
Any agent
npx skills add lis186/SourceAtlas --skill history
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lis186/SourceAtlas

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sourceatlas, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 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 history

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lis186/sourceatlas/history.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lis186/sourceatlas/history)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lis186/sourceatlas/history"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lis186/sourceatlas/history.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,441 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 $0.00018 $0.02441
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.01221
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00488
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00244

Measured 4d ago against content hash c43bf096d7c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

history 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 4d 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.

plugin/commands/history/SKILL.md · 326 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 326 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

SourceAtlas: Smart Temporal Analysis (Git History)

Constitution: ANALYSIS_CONSTITUTION.md v1.0

Context

Analysis Scope: $ARGUMENTS (default: entire repository) Goal: Extract actionable insights from git history Time Limit: 5-10 minutes Prerequisite: code-maat (will ask permission to install if missing)

Quick Start

  1. Check cache (skip if --force flag present)
  2. Check code-maat installation (install if needed with permission)
  3. Generate git log (last 12 months, code-maat compatible)
  4. Run analyses: Hotspots, Coupling, Contributors
  5. Risk assessment combining all dimensions
  6. Generate report following output-template.md
  7. Verify output using verification-guide.md
  8. Auto-save to .sourceatlas/history.md

Your Task

You are analyzing git commit history to understand:

  1. Hotspots - Files changed most frequently (likely complex/risky)
  2. Temporal Coupling - Files that change together (hidden dependencies)
  3. Recent Contributors - Who has knowledge of which areas (bus factor)
  4. Risk Areas - Aggregate assessment for prioritization

What You'll Discover

Analysis Type Insight Business Value
Hotspots Complexity indicators Refactoring priorities, technical debt
Coupling Hidden dependencies Architecture review targets
Contributors Knowledge distribution Bus factor risks, training needs
Risk Aggregate assessment Resource allocation decisions

Core Workflow

Execute these steps in order. See workflow.md for complete details.

Step 0: Check Prerequisites (30 seconds)

Purpose: Ensure code-maat is installed and Java is available.

Check code-maat:

if [ -f "$HOME/.sourceatlas/bin/code-maat-1.0.4-standalone.jar" ]; then
  export CODEMAAT_JAR="$HOME/.sourceatlas/bin/code-maat-1.0.4-standalone.jar"
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 326 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. 4d ago First seen · 326 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A c43bf096d7c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

history is a skill published in the GitHub repository lis186/SourceAtlas (48 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 2,441 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 2026-08-30.

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