Walk the person about to merge a branch through it commit by commit, so they actually understand what they are shipping. The output is reviewer comprehension and a sign-off decision, not a defect list. For each commit you narrate the author's intent (not a restatement of the diff), anchor the single riskiest line, surface the choices that look odd on purpose, name what is absent by design, and flag anything needing the merger's explicit sign-off — then let them step to the next commit.
Walk Commits is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the ide-editor sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/walk-commits/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when the person about to merge didn't author the diff — or hasn't internalized it — and needs to understand each commit's intent, riskiest line, deliberate oddities, and what's absent by design, with per-commit sign-off. Not a defect finder (that's /pre-merge), not a behavioral check (that's /verify), not an acceptance-criteria checklist (that's /execute Step 5).
The Walk Commits Claude Code skill is built for developers, power users, and teams automating repetitive workflows and improving developer experience. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 154,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/walk-commits curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/walk-commits/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/walk-commits/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/walk-commits/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/walk-commits/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\walk-commits\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/walk-commits/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Walk Commits is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Dev Tools category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{walk-commits-2026,
author = {chrislacey89},
title = {Walk Commits [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/walk-commits/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-07-20 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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