git-commit-format

git-commit-format is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openshift-eng/ai-helpers. It costs 20 tokens per session (888 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of rules for writing commit messages in the Conventional Commits format, such as `fix: correct login error`, with required sign-off details.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when generating or creating commits, including feature changes, bug fixes, documentation updates, tests, and breaking changes.
Why use it?
It keeps commit history consistent and makes the type and purpose of each change easier to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the git plugin — 2 skills, 10 commands 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/openshift-eng/ai-helpers/git-commit-format
Any agent
npx skills add openshift-eng/ai-helpers --skill git-commit-format
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openshift-eng/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 10 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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agentmods badge for git-commit-format

README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 888 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 $0.00020 $0.00888
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00444
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00178
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00089

Measured yesterday against content hash 26efbfbb9f67, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-commit-format 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 yesterday.

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/git-commit-format/SKILL.md · 138 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 138 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Name

openshift-developer:git-commit-format

Synopsis

/openshift-developer:git-commit-format

Description

Applies conventional commit formatting rules when generating commit messages. This skill is loaded as context for other skills and workflows — it defines the commit message format, required footers, and validation rules.

Implementation

Commit Message Format

<type>(<scope>): <description>

[optional body]

[footers]

Commit Types

  • feat: New features
  • fix: Bug fixes
  • docs: Documentation changes
  • style: Code style changes (formatting, etc.)
  • refactor: Code refactoring (no functional changes)
  • test: Adding/updating tests
  • chore: Maintenance tasks
  • build: Build system or dependency changes
  • ci: CI/CD changes
  • perf: Performance improvements
  • revert: Revert previous commit

Breaking Changes

With ! to draw attention:

feat!: send email when product shipped

With BREAKING CHANGE footer:

feat: allow config to extend other configs

BREAKING CHANGE: `extends` key now used for extending config files

Required Footers

Signed-off-by

ALWAYS include Signed-off-by footer with name and email.

Get credentials in this priority order:

  1. Environment variables: $GIT_AUTHOR_NAME and $GIT_AUTHOR_EMAIL
  2. Git config: git config user.name and git config user.email
  3. If neither configured, ask user to provide details
Commit-Message-Assisted-by

ALWAYS include when Claude assists with creating or generating the commit message:

Commit-Message-Assisted-by: Claude (via Claude Code)

Gitlint Validation Rules

  • Run make run-gitlint to validate commit messages (if the repo has a gitlint target)
  • Title line: 120 characters maximum
  • Body line: 140 characters maximum per line
  • Use conventional commit format
  • Include required footers (Signed-off-by)
  • No trailing whitespace

Return Value

  • Commit message: A conventional commit message with type, scope, description, body, and all required footers

Read the full file on GitHub · 138 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. yesterday First seen · 138 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 26efbfbb9f67

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-commit-format is a skill published in the GitHub repository openshift-eng/ai-helpers (114 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 888 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 2026-09-03.

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