preview-commit-message

A guide for drafting a commit message from staged Git changes without creating the commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Inspecting staged changes and presenting a proposed commit message.
Why use it?
It helps describe the changes that are ready to commit while leaving the final commit action to the user.

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/noahlz/claude-plugins/preview-commit-message
Any agent
npx skills add noahlz/claude-plugins --skill preview-commit-message
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/noahlz/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 650 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 $0.00031 $0.00650
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00325
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00130
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00065

Measured 2d ago against content hash a53909d0bd47, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

preview-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.

plugins/dev-workflow/skills/preview-commit-message/SKILL.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Use this skill to draft a commit message from staged changes without actually committing.

MANDATORY only activate this skill when the user invokes it directly (/preview-commit-message) OR prompts you to draft a message. Examples:

  • "write a commit message"
  • "draft a commit message"
  • "preview a commit message"
  • "prepare a commit message"

Follow the workflow steps EXACTLY.


Skill Workflow Checklist

Use this copyable checklist to ensure you follow ALL steps of this skill workflow:

- [ ] 0. Pre-flight check
- [ ] 1. Stage and analyze changes
- [ ] 2. Generate commit message
- [ ] 3. Display proposed message

Skill Context

SKILL_BASE_DIR: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}

Workflow Rules & Guardrails

MANDATORY: FOLLOW THESE RULES FOR THE ENTIRE WORKFLOW.

A. Delegation Protocol

When you see DELEGATE_TO: [file]:

STOP -> Use Read tool on the reference file path Execute its instructions exactly (bash commands, parsing, etc.) Return to SKILL.md only after completing reference file instructions

IMPORTANT: Reference files contain Bash tool commands - use them exactly as written - never improvise commands.

B. Narration Control

SILENCE PROTOCOL Only narrate steps with a STEP_DESCRIPTION field. Execute all other steps and tool calls silently - no explanatory text.


Skill Workflow Instructions

0. Pre-Flight Check

HALT if TRUE: Already ran git status/diff/log in parallel OR drafted commit message OR executing system git workflow. STOP skill immediately. CONTINUE if TRUE: No git commands executed yet. Continue.

1. Stage and Analyze Changes

DELEGATE_TO: ../../references/stage_and_analyze.md

READ FILE AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS, THEN RETURN HERE

2. Generate Commit Message

DELEGATE_TO: ../../references/message_guidelines.md

READ FILE AND FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS, THEN RETURN HERE

Extract COMMIT_SUBJECT and COMMIT_BODY per the reference file instructions. Do NOT display the commit message here. It will be displayed in Step 3. Proceed to Step 3.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 2d ago First seen · 99 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A a53909d0bd47

Subscribe to this mod's changes

preview-commit-message is a skill published in the GitHub repository noahlz/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 650 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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