Commit Message

A guide for writing commit messages in the Conventional Commits format, such as a type, scope, and short description. The scope identifies the main project area changed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when committing code, documentation, tests, tooling, or changes to the project’s MCP, CLI, generators, or other areas.
Why use it?
It makes commits consistent and easier to understand, group, and review. It also helps describe whether a change is a feature, fix, documentation update, test, or maintenance task.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,384 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 $0.00012 $0.01384
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00692
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00277
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00138

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3fb44f4aa633, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 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.

.context/skills/commit-message/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Commit Message

Generate consistent, informative commit messages for the @dotcontext/cli project.

When to Use

  • Committing code during the Execution (E) or Confirmation (C) phases
  • After completing a feature, bug fix, or refactoring task
  • When using the plan({ action: 'commitPhase' }) MCP tool to auto-commit phase outputs

Commit Format

This project follows Conventional Commits with scope detection:

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

[optional body]

[optional footer]

Types

Type Use When
feat Adding new functionality (new MCP tool, new generator, new CLI command)
fix Fixing a bug (broken scaffold generation, incorrect path resolution)
refactor Restructuring code without changing behavior (service extraction, gateway consolidation)
docs Documentation only (README, CHANGELOG, .context/ content)
test Adding or updating tests
chore Build, tooling, dependency updates
ci CI/CD configuration

Scopes

Derive scope from the primary area of change:

Scope Directory/Area
mcp src/services/mcp/ -- MCP server, gateway tools
cli src/index.ts -- CLI commands, commander setup
context src/services/ai/tools/, src/services/init/ -- MCP scaffold and semantic-context flows
init src/services/init/ -- Scaffold initialization
sync src/services/sync/, src/services/export/, src/services/import/
semantic src/services/semantic/ -- Tree-sitter, LSP, codebase analysis
workflow src/workflow/, src/services/workflow/ -- PREVC phases, gates
generators src/generators/ -- Doc, agent, plan, skill generators
skills src/workflow/skills/, .context/skills/
agents src/generators/agents/, .context/agents/
plans src/generators/plans/, src/services/mcp/gateway/plan.ts, .context/plans/
i18n src/utils/i18n.ts -- Translations
utils src/utils/ -- Frontmatter, git, CLI UI
ai src/services/ai/ -- AI SDK, providers, tools
types src/types/, src/types.ts -- Type definitions
deps package.json -- Dependency changes

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 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 · 177 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 3fb44f4aa633

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Commit Message is a skill published in the GitHub repository vinilana/dotcontext (560 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 1,384 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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