commit-msg

A Git commit-writing guide that reads the changes in a commit and suggests a clearer message using the Conventional Commits format, a shared way to label changes such as features, fixes, and tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing, amending, reviewing, or rewording Git commit messages.
Why use it?
It helps avoid vague commit messages and makes a project’s history easier to understand.

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/rust-works/succinctly/commit-msg
Any agent
npx skills add rust-works/succinctly --skill commit-msg
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rust-works/succinctly

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 586 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 $0.00054 $0.00586
Opus 5 $0.00027 $0.00293
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00059

Measured 2d ago against content hash b86e510205f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-msg 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.

.claude/skills/commit-msg/SKILL.md · 93 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 93 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Commit Message Skill

Generates and improves commit messages following conventional commits format.

Conventional Commits Format

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

[optional body]

[optional footer]

Types

Type Use For
feat New feature
fix Bug fix
docs Documentation only
style Formatting, no code change
refactor Code change that neither fixes a bug nor adds feature
perf Performance improvement
test Adding or updating tests
chore Maintenance tasks
ci CI/CD changes
build Build system changes

Scopes

See .omni-dev/scopes.yaml for the canonical, enforced scope list — do not duplicate it here.

Examples

Feature Addition

feat(json): add PFSM table-driven parser

Implements parallel finite state machine approach from hw-json-simd.
Achieves 880 MiB/s throughput on x86_64 (AMD Zen 4), 40-77% faster than scalar.

Bug Fix

fix(bp): correct find_close for edge case at word boundary

Fixes #42

Performance Improvement

perf(popcount): add AVX-512 VPOPCNTDQ implementation

5.2x faster than scalar for large bitvectors.
Requires Intel Ice Lake+ or AMD Zen 4+.

Refactoring

refactor(jq): replace deprecated last() with next_back()

Removes dead code and simplifies iterator handling.

Instructions

  1. Read the staged changes with git diff --cached
  2. Understand what changed and why
  3. Choose appropriate type and scope
  4. Write a concise subject line (50 chars ideal, 72 max)
  5. Add body if changes need explanation
  6. Include footer for breaking changes or issue references

Read the full file on GitHub · 93 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 · 93 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A b86e510205f8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-msg is a skill published in the GitHub repository rust-works/succinctly (51 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 586 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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