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Blame Why — Git skill for Claude Code

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Explain why a specific line of code exists — git blame + commit context.

How to install Blame Why

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/utsabpanta-claude-code-toolkit-blame-why.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/utsabpanta/claude-code-toolkit/HEAD/.claude/commands/blame-why.md -o ~/.claude/commands/utsabpanta-claude-code-toolkit-blame-why.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Blame Why does

description: Explain why a specific line of code exists — git blame + commit context argument-hint: : (e.g. src/auth.ts:42)

Explain why the code at $ARGUMENTS exists.

Steps:

Parse the argument as :. If it's not in that form, ask the user for a file and line.
Run git blame -L , to find the commit that last touched that line.
Run git show to get the commit message and the surrounding change.
Read the code around the line

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