git-workflow-strategy

git-workflow-strategy is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts. It costs 35 tokens per session (593 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to choosing and organizing Git workflows, which are agreed ways for teams to manage branches, merges, releases, and fixes. It covers GitFlow, GitHub Flow, and trunk-based development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan team collaboration, feature development, code reviews, releases, hotfixes, branch rules, merge strategies, and CI/CD integration.
Why use it?
It helps teams avoid inconsistent branch and merge practices when several people work on the same codebase. It also gives releases, feature work, and urgent fixes a predictable process.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan team collaboration, feature development, code reviews, releases, hotfixes, branch rules, merge strategies, and CI/CD integration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts/git-workflow-strategy
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts --skill git-workflow-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 593 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 18 Mar 2026
  • Snyk pass 4 Mar 2026
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00035 $0.00593
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00296
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00119
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00059

Measured 9d ago against content hash fa34ee0ca5b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-workflow-strategy 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 9d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/validate-pipeline.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

skills/git-workflow-strategy/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Workflow Strategy

Table of Contents

Overview

Establish efficient Git workflows that support team collaboration, code quality, and deployment readiness through structured branching strategies and merge patterns.

When to Use

  • Team collaboration setup
  • Release management
  • Feature development coordination
  • Hotfix procedures
  • Code review processes
  • CI/CD integration planning

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# Initialize GitFlow
git flow init -d

# Start a feature
git flow feature start new-feature
# Work on feature
git add .
git commit -m "feat: implement new feature"
git flow feature finish new-feature

# Start a release
git flow release start 1.0.0
# Update version numbers, changelog
git add .
git commit -m "chore: bump version to 1.0.0"
git flow release finish 1.0.0

# Create hotfix
git flow hotfix start 1.0.1
# Fix critical bug
git add .
git commit -m "fix: critical bug in production"
git flow hotfix finish 1.0.1

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide Contents
GitFlow Workflow Setup GitFlow Workflow Setup, GitHub Flow Workflow, Trunk-Based Development, Git Configuration for Workflows (+1 more)
Merge Strategy Script Merge Strategy Script
Collaborative Workflow with Code Review Collaborative Workflow with Code Review

Best Practices

✅ DO

  • Choose workflow matching team size and release cycle
  • Keep feature branches short-lived (< 3 days)
  • Use descriptive branch names with type prefix
  • Require code review before merging to main
  • Enforce protection rules on main/release branches
  • Rebase frequently to minimize conflicts
  • Write atomic, logical commits
  • Keep commit messages clear and consistent

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 95 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A fa34ee0ca5b0

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git-workflow-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository aj-geddes/useful-ai-prompts (338 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 593 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 2026-09-03.