commit-conventions

commit-conventions is a skill for Claude Code from VersoXBT/claude-initial-setup. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,202 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for writing Git commit messages in a standard format, such as marking changes as features or fixes. Git commits are saved records of changes to a code project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing commit messages, setting up commit checks, and preparing changelogs or release notes.
Why use it?
Consistent commit messages make project history easier to read and allow tools to create changelogs or decide software version bumps.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the claude-initial-setup plugin — 75 skills, 15 commands, 14 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing commit messages, setting up commit checks, and preparing changelogs or release notes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/versoxbt/claude-initial-setup/commit-conventions
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.

Any agent
npx skills add VersoXBT/claude-initial-setup --skill commit-conventions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VersoXBT/claude-initial-setup

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-initial-setup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 75 skills, 15 commands, 14 agents, 2 hooks.

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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 1,202 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.
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 $0.01202
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00481
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00240
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00120

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a5c700f33035, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

commit-conventions 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 1mo 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/core-workflow/commit-conventions/SKILL.md · 149 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 149 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Conventional Commits

Standard format for commit messages that enables automated changelogs, semantic versioning, and clear project history.

When to Use

  • Writing any git commit message
  • Reviewing commit history for consistency
  • Setting up commit linting (commitlint, husky)
  • Generating changelogs or release notes
  • Any time git commit is about to be executed

Core Patterns

Commit Message Structure

Follow this exact format:

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

<optional body>

<optional footer(s)>

The first line (subject) must be under 72 characters. Use imperative mood ("add feature" not "added feature" or "adds feature").

# Simple commit
git commit -m "feat: add user registration endpoint"

# With scope
git commit -m "fix(auth): prevent token refresh race condition"

# With body and footer
git commit -m "feat(api): add pagination to list endpoints

Implement cursor-based pagination for all collection endpoints.
Default page size is 20, max is 100.

Closes #142"

Commit Types

Type When to Use Triggers Version Bump
feat New feature or capability MINOR (0.X.0)
fix Bug fix PATCH (0.0.X)
refactor Code change that neither fixes nor adds None
docs Documentation only None
test Adding or fixing tests None
chore Maintenance, deps, tooling None
perf Performance improvement None
ci CI/CD configuration changes None
style Formatting, whitespace, semicolons None
build Build system or external deps None
revert Reverts a previous commit Depends

Read the full file on GitHub · 149 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. 1mo ago First seen · 149 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A a5c700f33035

Subscribe to this mod's changes

commit-conventions is a skill published in the GitHub repository VersoXBT/claude-initial-setup (4 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,202 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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