vale-ai-tells: Skill for Claude Code

.claude/skills/codex-review-commit-message/SKILL.md

codex-review-commit-message is a skill for Claude Code from tbhb/vale-ai-tells. It costs 57 tokens per session (375 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only checker for a proposed Git commit message against the changes staged for commit. Git is a tool for tracking code changes, and a commit message records what a change does.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing commit subjects and bodies, checking line lengths and required footer order, and deciding whether staged changes form one independently reversible change.
Why use it?
It catches claims the code changes do not support, unclear or repetitive explanations, formatting problems, and commits that combine unrelated changes before the commit is made.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: mentions Codex.

This is tbhb/vale-ai-tells's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on vale-ai-tells itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything vale-ai-tells configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to tbhb/vale-ai-tells. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells/main/.claude/skills/codex-review-commit-message/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tbhb/vale-ai-tells

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 375 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00057 $0.00375
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00187
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured 8d ago against content hash a08f61c97226, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

codex-review-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 8d 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/codex-review-commit-message/SKILL.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Review a commit message

The caller supplies a repository root and optionally --amend. Work read-only. Don't trust the caller's summary. Never write a review stamp.

Gather COMMIT_AGENTMSG, the staged name-status and patch, and five recent subjects. For --amend, compare against HEAD~1 so the review covers the complete amended commit rather than only the new staged delta. A missing draft or empty applicable diff is a finding.

Check:

  • The diff must support every claim. Reject counts, unverified results, selling language, and provenance about requests, sessions, prompts, models, or tools.
  • The body explains why the change exists instead of spelling out the diff or repeating the subject.
  • The subject is Conventional Commits form, imperative, present tense, 10 to 80 characters, and has no trailing period.
  • Body lines are at most 72 characters, footer lines at most 100, and the message is plain text. Assisted-by precedes Signed-off-by. No assistant appears as Co-authored-by.
  • The staged change is one logical, independently revertible change. Name separate groups when it isn't.

Return exactly one form:

VERDICT: PASS

or:

VERDICT: CHANGES REQUIRED

1. `<exact text or staged group>` — <problem>. Fix: <specific correction>.

Report every instance in one pass. Don't edit files, stage paths, or run mutating Git commands.

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. 8d ago First seen · 36 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A a08f61c97226

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codex-review-commit-message is a skill published in the GitHub repository tbhb/vale-ai-tells (86 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 375 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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