analyze-git-churn

analyze-git-churn is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from tomzx/agents. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,767 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for examining Git history, which records changes to a code project, to find files that change often.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review file-change activity over a day, week, or month and get targeted improvement suggestions.
Why use it?
Frequently changed files can point to maintenance problems, such as missing tests, dead code, or code that needs restructuring.

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/tomzx/agents/analyze-git-churn
Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill analyze-git-churn
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,767 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 $0.00036 $0.01767
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00883
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00177

Measured 4d ago against content hash 30e353d6d15d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

analyze-git-churn 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 4d 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/analyze-git-churn/SKILL.md · 209 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 209 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

TODAY=!date +%Y-%m-%d

Git Churn Analysis

Analyzes the git commit history over a chosen period to surface the files that changed most frequently, then inspects each high-churn file and produces concrete, prioritized improvement suggestions.

Prerequisites

  • git repository with commit history
  • Working directory is the root of the repository (or a subdirectory of it)
  • Optional: $1 — period to analyze: day, week, or month (defaults to week)

Period Mapping

Argument --since value
day 1 day ago
week 1 week ago
month 1 month ago

If $1 is not provided, default to week.

Steps

1. Determine the Analysis Window

Map $1 → a git log --since value using the table above.

2. Collect Churn Data

Run the following to count how many commits touched each file in the window:

git log --since="<period>" --name-only --pretty=format: | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head -30

Also capture per-file insertion/deletion totals to measure change volume:

git log --since="<period>" --numstat --pretty=format: | awk 'NF==3 {add[$3]+=$1; del[$3]+=$2; commits[$3]++} END {for (f in commits) printf "%d\t%d\t%d\t%s\n", commits[f], add[f], del[f], f}' | sort -rn | head -30

Exclude files that no longer exist (deleted files are noise). For each candidate path, confirm it still exists:

git ls-files --error-unmatch <path> 2>/dev/null

3. Rank High-Churn Files

Build a ranked table using the commit-count as the primary sort key:

Rank File Commits Lines Added Lines Deleted Net
1 N +X −Y Z

Focus the analysis on the top 10 files. If fewer than 3 files show more than 1 commit, widen the period automatically and note the change.

4. Inspect Each High-Churn File

For each of the top files:

  1. Read the file contents.
  2. Review recent commit messages that touched the file:
    git log --since="<period>" --oneline -- <path>
    
  3. Look at the diff for representative recent changes:
    git diff HEAD~5 HEAD -- <path>
    

Read the full file on GitHub · 209 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. 4d ago First seen · 209 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 30e353d6d15d

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analyze-git-churn is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (6 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,767 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 2026-08-31.

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