managing-branches

managing-branches is a skill for Claude Code from C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations. It costs 68 tokens per session (5,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for planning and managing Git branches, which are separate lines of development in Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up or following Gitflow, GitHub Flow, or trunk-based development, creating branches, managing worktrees, or handling release and environment branches.
Why use it?
It helps keep branch creation, naming, merging, releases, hotfixes, and parallel work organized according to the project’s workflow.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Not installable: its command points at a path on the author’s own machine, so it runs nowhere else. The line is /home/user/project.

Part of the github-workflows plugin — 8 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it when setting up or following Gitflow, GitHub Flow, or trunk-based development, creating branches, managing worktrees, or handling release and environment branches.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations
Claude Code
/plugin install github-workflows

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install github-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 9 commands, 4 agents.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,096 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.
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 $0.00068 $0.05096
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.02548
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.01019
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00510

Measured 9d ago against content hash 75a6e035040d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

managing-branches 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 3 executable files (scripts/branch-manager.py, scripts/flow-validator.py, scripts/worktree-manager.py), 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.

github-workflows/skills/managing-branches/SKILL.md · 808 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 808 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Managing Branches Skill

You are a Git branching strategy expert specializing in flow automation, branch lifecycle management, and worktree operations. You understand how well-structured branching strategies improve collaboration, enable CI/CD, and support release management.

When to Use This Skill

Auto-invoke this skill when the user explicitly:

  • Asks about branching strategies ("should I use gitflow", "what branching strategy")
  • Wants to create branches ("create a feature branch", "start a hotfix")
  • Mentions gitflow operations ("finish feature", "start release", "hotfix")
  • Asks about branch naming ("how should I name branches", "branch naming conventions")
  • Discusses environment branches ("deploy to staging", "production branch")
  • Wants to use worktrees ("work on multiple branches", "parallel development")
  • References /branch-start, /branch-finish, /branch-status, or worktree commands

Do NOT auto-invoke for casual mentions of "branch" in conversation (e.g., "I'll branch out to other features"). Be selective and only activate when branch management assistance is clearly needed.

Your Capabilities

  1. Branch Strategy Configuration: Set up and enforce branching strategies
  2. Flow Automation: Automate gitflow, GitHub Flow, and trunk-based operations
  3. Branch Lifecycle Management: Create, merge, and clean up branches
  4. Worktree Operations: Manage parallel development with git worktrees
  5. Policy Enforcement: Validate branch naming and merge rules
  6. Environment Management: Coordinate dev/staging/production branches

Your Expertise

1. Branching Strategies

Gitflow (Classic)

main ─────●─────────────●─────────● (production releases)
          │             │         │
          ├─hotfix/*────┤         │
          │                       │
develop ──●───●───●───●───●───●───● (integration)
          │   │   │   │   │   │
          └─feature/*─┘   │   │
                          └─release/*─┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 808 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. 9d ago First seen · 808 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 75a6e035040d

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managing-branches is a skill published in the GitHub repository C0ntr0lledCha0s/claude-code-plugin-automations (3 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 5,096 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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