branch-strategy

branch-strategy is a skill for Claude Code from Claude-Code-Community-Ireland/claude-code-resources. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,774 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for naming Git branches, choosing between Git Flow and trunk-based development, managing feature branches, and preparing releases.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating branches, selecting a branching model, planning releases, or defining branch lifecycles.
Why use it?
It gives a team a shared way to organize code changes and release work, reducing confusion in the repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the vibeworks-library plugin — 34 skills, 21 commands, 33 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it when creating branches, selecting a branching model, planning releases, or defining branch lifecycles.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/claude-code-community-ireland/claude-code-resources/branch-strategy
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.

Any agent
npx skills add Claude-Code-Community-Ireland/claude-code-resources --skill branch-strategy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Claude-Code-Community-Ireland/claude-code-resources

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install vibeworks-library, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 21 commands, 33 agents, 3 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for branch-strategy

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for branch-strategy

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,774 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 $0.00037 $0.02774
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01110
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00555
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00277

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a62d82f2fabe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch-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 1mo 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.

plugins/vibeworks-library/skills/branch-strategy/SKILL.md · 333 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 333 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Branch Strategy

Branch Naming Conventions

Every branch name must follow a structured prefix convention. This keeps the repository navigable, enables CI/CD automation, and makes intent immediately clear.

Required Prefixes

Prefix Purpose Example
feature/ New functionality or capability feature/user-avatar-upload
fix/ Bug fixes for existing behavior fix/login-redirect-loop
hotfix/ Urgent production fixes hotfix/payment-null-pointer
release/ Release preparation and stabilization release/2.4.0
chore/ Maintenance, dependencies, tooling chore/upgrade-eslint-9
docs/ Documentation-only changes docs/api-authentication-guide
refactor/ Code restructuring without behavior change refactor/extract-billing-service
test/ Adding or fixing tests only test/payment-edge-cases
experiment/ Exploratory work, not intended for merge experiment/graphql-federation

Naming Rules

  1. Use lowercase with hyphens as separators: feature/add-user-search not feature/Add_User_Search
  2. Keep names concise but descriptive: fix/cart-total not fix/the-bug-where-cart-total-shows-wrong-amount
  3. Include a ticket or issue number when one exists: feature/PROJ-1234-user-avatar-upload
  4. Never use personal names: feature/search-api not feature/anthonys-search-work
  5. Avoid generic names: fix/login-redirect-loop not fix/bug or fix/stuff
  6. Maximum length: aim for under 50 characters after the prefix

Ticket Number Placement

When integrating with issue trackers, place the ticket number immediately after the prefix:

feature/PROJ-1234-user-avatar-upload
fix/GH-567-null-pointer-on-empty-cart
hotfix/INC-89-payment-gateway-timeout

This enables automated linking between branches, PRs, and issues.

Branching Models

Trunk-Based Development

The simplest model. All developers work on short-lived branches off main and merge back frequently.

Read the full file on GitHub · 333 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. 1mo ago First seen · 333 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A a62d82f2fabe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

branch-strategy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Claude-Code-Community-Ireland/claude-code-resources (11 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,774 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.