git-commit

A workflow for turning existing working-tree changes into one or more focused Git commits. Git commits are saved snapshots of code changes, each with a message describing its purpose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when wrapping up work, responding to review feedback, or asking for the current changes to be grouped and committed.
Why use it?
It helps organize mixed changes into understandable history without making you decide every commit detail yourself.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,126 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 $0.00047 $0.02126
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01063
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00425
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00213

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6dcaa130dd70, 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 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.

skills/git-commit/SKILL.md · 157 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 157 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What this does

Look at everything that has changed in the working tree, decide how the changes should be split into commits, and then create those commits — messages and all — without stopping to ask for approval. The user invoked /git-commit because they trust you to make the call, so make it and report what you did afterward.

Any argument the user passes is context, not a command: a hint about intent ("addressing review feedback", "this is risky, note the migration") that should inform how you group and what you write. It is never the literal commit message.

Step 1: Understand what changed

Before grouping anything, build a real picture of the diff. Run these together:

  • git status — what's modified, added, deleted, untracked
  • git diff — unstaged changes
  • git diff --staged — anything already staged
  • git log --oneline -15 — recent history, to match the tone and see referenced issues/PRs

Read the diff to understand the why, not just the what. You are about to explain these changes to a future reader; you can't do that if you only know which lines moved. If something is genuinely unclear, it's fine to ask one focused question — but usually the diff plus recent history tells the story.

If there's nothing to commit, say so and stop. Never create an empty commit.

Step 2: Decide the grouping — this is the judgment call

The goal is atomic commits: each commit is one complete, coherent change that stands on its own. The hard part is knowing how many commits that means, and there's no mechanical rule — it depends on what the work actually is.

Lean toward a single commit when the changes tell one story. If the user just built a feature — new model, its migration, the controller, the view, the tests — that's one logical change even though it spans many files. Splitting it into "add migration", "add model", "add tests" produces commits that are individually broken and useless to revert. Keep it together.

Split into separate commits when the changes are genuinely independent. The tell is that the work is a set of unrelated things rather than one thing:

Read the full file on GitHub · 157 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 · 157 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 6dcaa130dd70

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-commit is a skill published in the GitHub repository thoughtbot/rails-consultant (22 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,126 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 2026-08-30.

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