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title: "Commit Archaeologist - Air Market"
description: "You are about to rewrite or refactor some code and don't know why it was written the way it was. This digs through the project's saved change history to explain where the code came from, how it chang…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/commit-archaeologist"
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[Air Market](/) / [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) / Commit Archaeologist

Skill by [Shubham Saboo](/@shubhamsaboo)

# Commit Archaeologist

Learn why a piece of code exists before you change it

## What this does

You are about to rewrite or refactor some code and don't know why it was written the way it was. This digs through the project's saved change history to explain where the code came from, how it changed, and who works on it now. It all happens on your own machine.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Find out why this code exists
- See who wrote this function and why
- Explain this function's history before I rewrite it

## Information

**Commit Archaeologist at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [Shubham Saboo](/@shubhamsaboo) |
| Category | [Developer Tools](/category/devtools) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Languages | en |
| Version | 1.0.0 |
| Size | 24 KB |
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Repository | [Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps](https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps/tree/37bb0c2a89576fd6819475cd459111d9873a452c/agent_skills/commit-archaeologist) |
| GitHub stars | 144,258 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Commit Archaeologist and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Commit Archaeologist's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 37bb0c2a89576fd6819475cd459111d9873a452c |
| Content hash | a7f973e4d8de6011e03068a8e5c3f7752f927830a44b134d25927bb9d2f61dbd |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps/blob/37bb0c2a89576fd6819475cd459111d9873a452c/agent_skills/commit-archaeologist/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Commit Archaeologist](/security/commit-archaeologist)

## About Commit Archaeologist

This reconstructs why code exists from local git history: the commit that introduced it, later changes, its current authors, files that repeatedly change alongside it, and its likely intent.

Use it when asking why some code exists, who wrote a function and why, or to explain a function's history before a rewrite, refactor or risky edit. It runs entirely locally.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions
- README.md - reference
- references/reading-git-history.md - reference
- scripts/archaeologist.py - script

## Questions

### Is Commit Archaeologist safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Commit Archaeologist and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 37bb0c2a8957, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/commit-archaeologist.

### How do I install Commit Archaeologist?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/commit-archaeologist on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Shubhamsaboo/awesome-llm-apps/tree/37bb0c2a89576fd6819475cd459111d9873a452c/agent_skills/commit-archaeologist. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Developer Tools listings](/category/devtools)
- [Everything by Shubham Saboo](/@shubhamsaboo)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/commit-archaeologist>