commit

A guide for writing commit messages that follow Conventional Commits, a standard format such as `fix: correct login error` that describes the kind of change made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reviewing code changes and creating commit messages with types, scopes, descriptions, bodies, and breaking-change notes.
Why use it?
It makes a project's history easier to scan and helps tools identify fixes, features, and breaking changes consistently.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 981 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00032 $0.00981
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00491
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00196
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00098

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8ac000b7c8b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to conventional-commit — 6 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/commit/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conventional Commits Generator

Generate commit messages following the Conventional Commits 1.0.0 specification.

Commit Message Structure

<type>[optional scope]: <description>

[optional body]

[optional footer(s)]

Instructions

When the user asks to commit changes:

  1. Analyze the changes by running:

    • git status to see all modified/added/deleted files
    • git diff --staged to see staged changes
    • git diff to see unstaged changes
    • git log -5 --oneline to match the repository's commit style
  2. Determine the commit type (REQUIRED):

    Type Description SemVer
    feat New feature MINOR
    fix Bug fix PATCH
    docs Documentation only -
    style Formatting, no code change -
    refactor Code change, no feature/fix -
    perf Performance improvement -
    test Adding/updating tests -
    build Build system or dependencies -
    ci CI configuration -
    chore Other changes -
  3. Identify breaking changes:

    • Append "!" after type/scope for breaking changes: "feat!:" or "feat(api)!:"
    • Add "BREAKING CHANGE:" footer for detailed explanation
    • Breaking changes trigger MAJOR version bump
  4. Write the commit message:

    • Description MUST immediately follow the colon and space
    • Description is a short summary in imperative mood
    • Body MUST begin one blank line after description
    • Footers MUST begin one blank line after body
  5. Stage and commit:

    • Stage relevant files with git add
    • Create commit with the generated message
    • Show git status after to confirm success
    • DO NOT add any Claude Code references, co-author tags, or "Generated with" footers

Specification Rules

  • Type MUST be a noun (feat, fix, etc.)
  • Scope MUST be a noun in parentheses describing codebase section
  • Description MUST use imperative mood ("add" not "added")
  • Body is free-form, may have multiple paragraphs
  • Footer token MUST use - instead of spaces (except BREAKING CHANGE)
  • BREAKING CHANGE MUST be uppercase
  • NEVER include AI-generated markers, Claude Code references, or Co-Authored-By: Claude footers

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 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 · 137 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 8ac000b7c8b1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository skilluse/skilluse (55 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 981 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to conventional-commit, differing in 6 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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