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Agent skill

Bind Commit

by isc-projects in isc-projects/bind9

The full commit workflow for BIND 9 repositories — pre-commit clang-format sequence, message shape and 72-column wrapping, trailer rules (Assisted-by and the forbidden ones), amend/fixup discipline…

MPL-2.0Auto-check passedDevelopment

Install Bind Commit

skills CLI
$ npx skills add isc-projects/bind9 --skill bind-commit -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install isc-projects/bind9 bind-commit --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/isc-projects/bind9.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/bind-commit .claude/skills/bind-commit && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
bind-commit
GitHub stars
780
Token cost
~1.1k tokens
SKILL.md length
561 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
9
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MPL-2.0

At a glance

The full commit workflow for BIND 9 repositories — pre-commit clang-format sequence, message shape and 72-column wrapping, trailer rules (Assisted-by and the forbidden ones), amend/fixup discipline…

  • Works in 3 steps: git add → git-clang-format HEAD — the hyphenated… → git add any reformatted files, then…
  • Development work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Pre-commit formatting (C files), Message shape, Trailers and Amending, plus 1 more section
  • Calls git, gh and glab

What it does

Bind Commit is an agent skill from isc-projects/bind9. The full commit workflow for BIND 9 repositories — pre-commit clang-format sequence, message shape and 72-column wrapping, trailer rules (Assisted-by and the forbidden ones), amend/fixup discipline, and the never-push boundary. Use EVERY time you are about to create, amend, reword, or fix up a commit in any BIND 9 checkout.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.1k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development. It works with Git. The repository describes itself as: Archived mirror of https://gitlab.isc.org/isc-projects/bind9, please submit issues and PR/MRs in the GitLab. The licence is MPL-2.0.

When your agent uses it

  • Development work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/bind-commit”

Workflow steps

3 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. git add
  2. git-clang-format HEAD — the hyphenated binary. git clang-format
  3. git add any reformatted files, then commit.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 12d28b2. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

    • git
    • gh
    • glab

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, gh and glab, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Bind Commit loads about 1.1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 84 tokens; SKILL.md has 561 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~84
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from isc-projects/bind9 at commit 12d28b2, republished under its MPL-2.0 licence (© isc-projects). 561 words, ~1,064 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/bind-commit/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
bind-commit
description
The full commit workflow for BIND 9 repositories — pre-commit clang-format sequence, message shape and 72-column wrapping, trailer rules (Assisted-by and the forbidden ones), amend/fixup discipline, and the never-push boundary. Use EVERY time you are about to create, amend, reword, or fix up a commit in any BIND 9 checkout.

Committing to BIND 9 — the full checklist

Pre-commit formatting (C files)

  1. git add <files>
  2. git-clang-format HEAD — the hyphenated binary. git clang-format (with a space) invokes a nonexistent git subcommand and fails. It operates on STAGED files only.
  3. git add any reformatted files, then commit.

Only format C lines you wrote or edited yourself. If the working-tree diff was authored by the user (their editor, their patch), do NOT run clang-format over it — it is not your code to reformat.

Message shape

  • ≤3 paragraphs; a single short paragraph is usually enough. Focus on WHY — the reviewer can read the diff. Never narrate the diff or enumerate per-function before/after behavior ("Gosh the commit message is so long and chatty").
  • Plain subject, no new:/fix:/dev:/doc: prefix — those appear only on GitLab-generated MR-merge commits. Real branch-commit style: git log --no-merges --first-parent.
  • Hard-wrap the body at ~72 columns. git commit -m does NOT wrap: a long paragraph becomes one unwrapped line that sticks out immediately. Write the message pre-wrapped to a file and use git commit -F <file>, or pass each physical line as its own -m.

Trailers

  • Always follow the rules for AI agents in CONTRIBUTING.md: the Assisted-by: <tool>:<model-id> format, which specialized analysis tools to list after the model id (never trivial tooling), no Signed-off-by: from the agent, no Co-Authored-By: or any AI co-author line.
  • Add Assisted-by ONLY when the LLM wrote the load-bearing code/test/config content of the commit. NOT for: rewording a message, squashing fixups, review-only advice, or a comment/doc block added around a user-authored fix — a comment is prose, not the fix; do not rationalize "the comment was AI" to keep the trailer.
  • Never add tool-generated bookkeeping trailers — Claude-Session: and anything else the harness would like to stamp on the message (session/conversation ids, transcript links, "generated with" footers). A commit message is for the reviewer and the log, not for agent telemetry; dangerfile.py rejects Claude-Session: outright. If such a trailer shows up in a message you are about to commit, strip it before committing.
  • NEVER Closes #N / Fixes #N / Refs #N — issue refs go in the MR description; the branch name already encodes the issue number.
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Amending

  • HEAD, polish-only (typo, message tightening, whitespace): plain --amend; keep the original author (git's default).

  • HEAD, implementation replaced by a different approach: --amend --reset-author (or explicit --author=) — attribution follows whoever wrote the NEW code, not whoever wrote the discarded version. When in doubt about amending someone else's commit, ask first. The Assisted-by question is independent — re-derive it from who authored the new content.

  • NOT HEAD: NEVER rebuild the branch with git reset --hard <older> + cherry-pick (this once collided with the user's concurrent rebase and trashed the branch). Instead add a fixup commit on top:

    • content (and message): git commit --fixup=amend:<hash>
    • message only: git commit --fixup=reword:<hash> — it opens an editor and ignores -m; supply the wrapped message via GIT_EDITOR='cp /path/to/msg.txt'
    • content only, keep message: git commit --fixup=<hash>

    Then STOP and hand git rebase -i --autosquash <base> to the user — never run the rebase yourself.

  • Before ANY history operation run git status; if a rebase or cherry-pick is in progress, do not touch the branch.

The boundary

Commit locally only. Never git push (any variant), never gh pr create / glab mr create. When the work is finished, hand the MR title/description over as text (see the bind-mr-description skill) — do not offer to push or open the MR.

© isc-projects, MPL-2.0. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in .agents/skills/bind-commit of isc-projects/bind9.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 12d28b2

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Questions about Bind Commit

What does Bind Commit do?

The full commit workflow for BIND 9 repositories — pre-commit clang-format sequence, message shape and 72-column wrapping, trailer rules (Assisted-by and the forbidden ones), amend/fixup discipline…. Bind Commit is an agent skill from isc-projects/bind9. The full commit workflow for BIND 9 repositories — pre-commit clang-format sequence, message shape and 72-column wrapping, trailer rules (Assisted-by and the forbidden ones), amend/fixup discipline, and the never-push boundary.

When should I use Bind Commit?

Bind Commit fits situations like: development work in your project.

How do I install Bind Commit in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add isc-projects/bind9 --skill bind-commit -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/bind-commit in isc-projects/bind9) into .claude/skills/bind-commit in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Bind Commit in Codex?

Run `npx skills add isc-projects/bind9 --skill bind-commit -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/bind-commit in isc-projects/bind9) into .agents/skills/bind-commit in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Bind Commit in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add isc-projects/bind9 --skill bind-commit -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/bind-commit, .gemini/skills/bind-commit, .github/skills/bind-commit and .opencode/skills/bind-commit in your project.

What does Bind Commit need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Bind Commit needs the command-line tools its instructions call (git, gh and glab).

Does Bind Commit access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git and gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Bind Commit safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Bind Commit use?

Bind Commit is published under the MPL-2.0 licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Bind Commit use?

About 1.1k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 4.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Bind Commit?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Bind Commit: Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 296k stars), Code Review Checklist (shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code, 78k stars), Codebase Knowledge Graph Q&A (Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, 86k stars) and Code Design Rationale Investigator (cursor/plugins, 10k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Bind Commit?

isc-projects (a GitHub organization) maintains it in isc-projects/bind9, which has 780 GitHub stars. The repository holds 9 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 7, 2026.

Source: isc-projects/bind9 on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.