Turn an overgrown working tree into a short sequence of focused local commits. Assemble each commit in the index first, hand it to $git-commit for the message, then stop for user confirmation before running git commit. Do not push as part of this skill.
Split Commits is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/split-commits/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when changes span unrelated concerns, combine refactors with behavior changes, mix generated files with source edits, or contain separable hunks in the same file, and Codex needs to stage one logical batch at a time, invoke `$git-commit` to draft the staged commit message, present the staged batch for user confirmation, run `git commit` only after the user explicitly approves that batch, and repeat without pushing.
The Split Commits Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/split-commits curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/split-commits/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/split-commits/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/split-commits/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/split-commits/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\split-commits\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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