reword-commits

reword-commits is a skill for Claude Code from motlin/claude-code-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (693 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Git workflow for rewriting commit messages within a chosen range of history, changing both their subject and body to one line.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to reword every in-scope commit message according to the project's message rules, including commits that already look acceptable.
Why use it?
It standardizes unclear or inconsistent commit messages without changing the code or other commit details.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the git plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to reword every in-scope commit message according to the project's message rules, including commits that already look acceptable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/motlin/claude-code-plugins/reword-commits
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 motlin/claude-code-plugins --skill reword-commits
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/motlin/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 693 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 $0.00045 $0.00693
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00277
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00069

Measured 22d ago against content hash 07526c69d4c1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

reword-commits 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 22d 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.

plugins/git/skills/reword-commits/SKILL.md · 66 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 66 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reword Commits

Use the code:cli and git:git-workflow skills. The message format in git:git-workflow is the target.

Rewrite every commit message in scope. Don't triage, and don't skip commits whose subjects already look fine: every commit gets a fresh proposal.

Constraints

Use git history reword only: no interactive rebase, git commit --amend, git filter-branch, git filter-repo, or git replay. No branch switching, no force-pushing, and no changes to content, authors, dates, parents, or trees. Messages only.

Scope

By default, reword the current branch's commits that aren't on its upstream: <upstream>..HEAD, falling back to main..HEAD or master..HEAD. If none apply, ask which base to use via AskUserQuestion.

If the user asks for "all branches", collect each local branch's commits not on its upstream (or the main/master fallback). A commit shared across branches is rewritten once, since git history reword updates every branch that contains it.

Anything else the user wrote is extra guidance on top of git:git-workflow. If the set is empty, say so and stop.

Reading Each Commit

Read the full message, subject and body, for every commit. A body is itself a violation of the single-line rule.

git log --format='%H%n%B%n--END-COMMIT--' <range>
git show --no-patch --format=%B <sha>

If a message's intent is unclear, read the diff with git show <sha>.

Drafting and Confirming

For each commit, draft one line that distills the full prior message (subject and body) and applies the user's extra guidance. Show before/after for every commit, noting any body being collapsed:

<short-sha>  BEFORE: <current subject>  [+ N-line body]
             AFTER:  <proposed single-line message>

Then ask via AskUserQuestion:

  • "Apply all rewrites" (recommended)
  • "Apply a subset" (ask which SHAs)
  • "Regenerate proposals"
  • "Cancel"

Applying

Run git history reword <sha> for each approved commit, oldest first, with a GIT_EDITOR that overwrites the whole message file so the body is dropped too:

Read the full file on GitHub · 66 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. 22d ago Changed · -23 lines 07526c69d4c1
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 89 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A f759063ff687

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reword-commits is a skill published in the GitHub repository motlin/claude-code-plugins (20 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 693 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 2026-09-19.