ruby-commit-message

A guide for writing Ruby and Rails commit messages using Conventional Commits, a shared format that labels changes such as features, fixes, tests, and documentation.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when committing Ruby changes to choose a change type, write a concise subject, and add a useful body, scope, or footer.
Why use it?
It makes commit history easier to scan and helps explain changes during debugging, especially to less experienced Ruby developers.

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/zarpay/rails-template/ruby-commit-message
Any agent
npx skills add zarpay/rails-template --skill ruby-commit-message
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zarpay/rails-template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 824 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 $0.00034 $0.00824
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00412
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00165
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00082

Measured yesterday against content hash 830c10c5ac3e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ruby-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 yesterday.

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.

files/.claude/skills/ruby-commit-message/SKILL.md · 113 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 113 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Ruby Commit Message

Overview

Write structured commit messages following Conventional Commits. The body should help a junior Ruby on Rails developer understand the change during a debugging session.

Format

<type>(<scope>): <subject>

<body>

<footer>

Quick Reference — Commit Types

Type Purpose
feat New feature
fix Bug fix
refactor Refactoring (no behavior change)
perf Performance improvement
docs Documentation only
test Test additions or corrections
build Build system or dependencies
ci CI configuration
chore Maintenance tasks
style Code formatting (no logic change)
revert Revert previous commit
meta Repository metadata
license License changes

Subject Line Rules

  • Imperative mood: "Add", "Fix", "Update", "Remove"
  • Present tense: "Add feature" not "Added feature"
  • Capitalized first letter, no period at end
  • Maximum 70 characters
  • Scope (optional): noun describing the section of codebase, e.g. (api), (auth)

Body Guidelines

Couple of sentences, wrapped at 72 chars, blank line after subject. Write for a junior Ruby developer: simple language they can understand during debugging. Add any useful information that would help a junior Ruby developer understand the impact of the change, why the change was done.

  • WHY — motivation, problem, or user impact. Use context if it exists for this.
  • WHAT changed — make this brief; the diff already shows the HOW
  • HOW — only when there are details about the how that are not reflected by the code or the naming in the code

Call out tradeoffs when supported by context. Do not invent details.

Fixes TICKET-123       # or: Fixes #123, Refs TICKET-123
BREAKING CHANGE: ...   # for breaking changes; use ! in type too: feat(api)!:
Co-Authored-By: <AI Name> <email>   # when AI generated the change

Do NOT add "Generated by AI" or "Written with Claude" in the subject or body. Use only Co-Authored-By.

Read the full file on GitHub · 113 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. yesterday First seen · 113 lines · 34 tokens per session scan A 830c10c5ac3e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

ruby-commit-message is a skill published in the GitHub repository zarpay/rails-template (9 stars, last pushed 20d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 824 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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