worktree-setup

A repository setup command for Git worktrees, which are multiple working folders connected to one Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Prepare a repository with a main worktree and optional extra copies for parallel trunk-based development. It also sets expectations for later worktree creation and cleanup.
Why use it?
It creates a consistent folder layout so several branches can be worked on at the same time without repeatedly switching the main folder.

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/wbern/agent-instructions/worktree-setup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wbern/agent-instructions

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 30 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,276 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 $0.00030 $0.01276
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00638
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00255
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00128

Measured 2d ago against content hash acc0bf0f1c22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

worktree-setup 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.

.claude/commands/worktree-setup.md · 155 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 155 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

General Guidelines

Output Style

  • Never explicitly mention TDD in code, comments, commits, PRs, or issues
  • Write natural, descriptive code without meta-commentary about the development process
  • The code should speak for itself - TDD is the process, not the product

Beads is available for task tracking. Use mcp__beads__* tools to manage issues (the user interacts via bd commands).

Plan File Restriction

NEVER create, read, or update plan.md files. Claude Code's internal planning files are disabled for this project. Use other methods to track implementation progress (e.g., comments, todo lists, or external tools).

Worktree Layout Setup

Bootstrap the directory structure that /worktree-add and /worktree-cleanup expect. The layout this command produces:

<parent>/<repo-name>/main             # primary worktree on the default branch
<parent>/<repo-name>/<type>/<slug>    # feature worktrees added by /worktree-add
<parent>/<repo-name>/main.2           # optional: additional local copy of main
<parent>/<repo-name>/main.3           # (for parallel trunk-based work)

User arguments:

Worktree-setup: $ARGUMENTS

End of user arguments

Phase 0: Gas Town incompatibility check (HARD ABORT)

This command is intentionally incompatible with Gas Town. Gas Town manages its own rig/crew topology, and this layout would shadow it. Abort if any of the following is true:

Detection Condition
Gas Town home present ~/gt/ exists
Currently inside a Gas Town tree Working directory resolves under ~/gt/
Target parent resolves under ~/gt/ Resolved target path starts with ~/gt/
gt binary present AND target inside a tracked rig command -v gt succeeds and gt status --json lists target as a rig path

If any check fails, print:

Gas Town detected — this setup would conflict with gt's rig topology. Use gt rig add <repo-url> instead. Exiting without changes.

…and exit. Do not proceed under any flag.

Read the full file on GitHub · 155 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. 2d ago First seen · 155 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A acc0bf0f1c22

Subscribe to this mod's changes

worktree-setup is a command published in the GitHub repository wbern/agent-instructions (168 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 1,276 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.