create_worktree

A command for creating a separate Git worktree and starting an implementation session from a software plan. A worktree is another working directory connected to the same Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to prepare a ticket-based branch, connect it to a plan file, and launch a session that implements, tests, commits, and opens a pull request.
Why use it?
It gives a planned change its own branch and directory, reducing interference with other work in progress.

Command

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/jeffh/claude-plugins/create_worktree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jeffh/claude-plugins
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 472 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00000 $0.00472
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7c9460e69911, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create_worktree scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

humanlayer/commands/create_worktree.md · 42 lines

What it actually says


description: Create worktree and launch implementation session for a plan

  1. set up worktree for implementation: 2a. use the create-worktree skill to create a new worktree with the Linear branch name (ENG-XXXX) and base branch

  2. determine required data:

branch name path to plan file (use relative path only) launch prompt command to run

IMPORTANT PATH USAGE:

  • The thoughts/ directory is synced between the main repo and worktrees
  • Always use ONLY the relative path starting with thoughts/shared/... without any directory prefix
  • Example: thoughts/shared/plans/fix-mcp-keepalive-proper.md (not the full absolute path)
  • This works because thoughts are synced and accessible from the worktree

3a. confirm with the user by sending a message to the Human

based on the input, I plan to create a worktree with the following details:

worktree path: ~/wt/humanlayer/ENG-XXXX
branch name: BRANCH_NAME
path to plan file: $FILEPATH
launch prompt:

    /implement_plan at $FILEPATH and when you are done implementing and all tests pass, read ./claude/commands/commit.md and create a commit, then read ./claude/commands/describe_pr.md and create a PR, then add a comment to the Linear ticket with the PR link

command to run:

    humanlayer launch --model opus -w ~/wt/humanlayer/ENG-XXXX "/implement_plan at $FILEPATH and when you are done implementing and all tests pass, read ./claude/commands/commit.md and create a commit, then read ./claude/commands/describe_pr.md and create a PR, then add a comment to the Linear ticket with the PR link"

incorporate any user feedback then:

  1. launch implementation session: humanlayer launch --model opus -w ~/wt/humanlayer/ENG-XXXX "/implement_plan at $FILEPATH and when you are done implementing and all tests pass, read ./claude/commands/commit.md and create a commit, then read ./claude/commands/describe_pr.md and create a PR, then add a comment to the Linear ticket with the PR link"
Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 42 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 7c9460e69911

Subscribe to this mod's changes

create_worktree is a command published in the GitHub repository jeffh/claude-plugins (12 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 472 tokens. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.