gitignore

gitignore is a command for Claude Code from rjwalters/kicad-tools. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,447 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reviews a repository's .gitignore rules, which tell Git which files not to track. It looks for both useful files hidden by mistake and build files that should stay untracked.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit the whole repository or a subdirectory's ignore rules, taking into account whether the repository is public or private.
Why use it?
It helps keep important project content in version control while reducing accidental tracking of generated files, secrets, or unsuitable private material.

Command for Claude Code

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/rjwalters/kicad-tools/gitignore
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjwalters/kicad-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,447 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 $0.00019 $0.01447
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00724
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00289
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00145

Measured 5d ago against content hash 5fb67f6dbbc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gitignore 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 5d 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.

.claude/commands/repo/gitignore.md · 136 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 136 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/repo:gitignore — Gitignore Audit

Check that gitignore rules are appropriate for this repository. Catches files that shouldn't be ignored and build artifacts that should be.

Usage

/repo:gitignore                  # Full repo — apply clear rule fixes, report as you go
/repo:gitignore data/            # Check one subtree
/repo:gitignore --ask            # Review findings and confirm before editing

Context First

Determine whether the repo is public or private before judging rules (gh repo view --json isPrivate --jq .isPrivate, or ask the user if there is no GitHub remote). The right answer differs:

  • Private repos often want data files, docs, and notes tracked — flag rules that hide them.
  • Public repos often want those same files ignored — flag tracked files that look like they leaked in (credentials, dumps, personal notes are critical findings either way).

What It Checks

1. Over-Ignored Files

Flag gitignore rules that exclude things that look like real content:

  • Data files (.yaml, .json, .csv) that aren't build output
  • Documentation or notes
  • Configuration that isn't secrets

Always keep ignored, in any repo:

  • .env files and anything credential-like
  • node_modules/, .venv/, __pycache__/
  • Build output (dist/, build/, target/, *.pyc)
  • IDE files (.vscode/, .idea/)
  • OS files (.DS_Store)

2. Under-Ignored Files

Find tracked files that are probably build artifacts:

  • *.pyc, __pycache__/
  • dist/, build/, coverage output
  • Large binaries that look generated (.o, .so, .whl)

3. Gitignore Hygiene

  • Redundant rules (already covered by a parent .gitignore)
  • Rules that match zero files (stale after cleanup)
  • Scattered .gitignore files that could be consolidated

Do not flag X and X/ as duplicates without verification. A trailing slash restricts a gitignore pattern to directories — it never matches a symlink, even one that points at a directory (man gitignore: "If there is a separator at the end of the pattern then the pattern will only match directories"). The two rules are therefore not interchangeable:

Read the full file on GitHub · 136 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 136 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 5fb67f6dbbc7

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gitignore is a command published in the GitHub repository rjwalters/kicad-tools (55 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,447 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. 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.