commit-craft SKILL.md skillB

commit-craft from univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil/commit-craft@git:20260930.5b26a1e

Pins git:20260930.5b26a1e in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil
Path
skills/commit-craft/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
5
Latest version
git:20260930.5b26a1e, committed Sep 30, 2026
First version recorded
Sep 30, 2026
Size
3,781 bytes
Repository stars
4
License
none declared

Turn a working tree into a history someone can read, revert and bisect. Use when changes are uncommitted, one commit mixes several concerns, a message does not say what changed, or a branch needs tidying before review. Auto-triggers on: "commit this", "write a commit message", "split these changes", "prepare a PR", "clean up the history".

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Commit craft

A commit is a message to whoever is bisecting at 3am, and that is usually you. The two
properties that matter: each commit does **one** thing, and each commit **builds and
passes**. Everything else follows from those.

## 1. Look at what you actually have

```sh
git status
git diff            # unstaged
git diff --staged   # staged
```

Read the whole diff before writing anything. Two things you are looking for:

- **Accidents** — a debug print, a commented-out block, a `.env`, a large binary, a
  hardcoded token, a stray formatter sweep across files you never touched.
- **Seams** — where this tree is really two or three changes wearing one hat.

## 2. Split it

One logical change per commit. If the message needs "and", it is two commits.

- **Never mix a refactor with a feature** (`rules/refactor-common.md`). A rename across
  40 files plus one behaviour change is a diff nobody can review — and reviewers approve
  what they cannot read.
- A fix and its regression test go **together**. The test is what proves the fix.
- Formatting-only sweeps get their own commit, so the real change stays legible.

```sh
git add -p                 # stage by hunk
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil/commit-craft@sha256:11178f7901a6ef46

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260930.5b26a1e, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_lzb6b7elmbztlhrm.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_lzb6b7elmbztlhrm)

2 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 30, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260930.5b26a1e latest2026-09-30 5b26a1e 3,781 BB view · diff
git:20260930.b857b762026-09-30 b857b76 3,688 BB view · diff
git:20260930.a77cb5e2026-09-30 a77cb5e 3,687 BB view · diff
git:20260930.dc5adef2026-09-30 dc5adef 3,647 BB view · diff
git:20260930.445fa692026-09-30 445fa69 3,646 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: No instruction to read or print local credentials (matched: print, a commented-out block, a `.env)
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3781 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil · 4 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lzb6b7elmbztlhrm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=univers42/claude-deal-with-the-devil/commit-craft
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/11178f7901a6ef468daa6c437fcdbba590c58531c735f084aa2a793ec70665e4

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.

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