dev-worktree

A guide for preparing or resuming an isolated Git worktree and feature branch for development. A worktree is a separate working copy of a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Starting or resuming feature work, creating names such as feature-add-login, checking the repository context, setting up dependencies, and verifying the active workspace.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of mixing feature changes with other work by defining the correct branch, directory, and project setup before development begins.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/dev-worktree
Any agent
npx skills add codeaholicguy/ai-devkit --skill dev-worktree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codeaholicguy/ai-devkit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 894 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 $0.00049 $0.00894
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00447
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00179
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00089

Measured yesterday against content hash 108c3024bcfa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dev-worktree 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 yesterday.

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/dev-worktree/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dev Worktree

Set up or resume the correct workspace before feature work. Keep this skill focused on repository context, worktree isolation, and dependency bootstrap. Do not perform requirements, design, planning, implementation, testing, or review work here.

Phase Contract

  1. Propose the exact workspace plan before changing branch or worktree state.
  2. Confirm the target branch/worktree with the user before switching contexts.
  3. Use feature-<name> for branch and worktree names, where <name> is normalized kebab-case without the prefix.
  4. Prefer a project-local worktree at <project-root>/.worktrees/feature-<name>.
  5. Use no-worktree mode only when the user explicitly requests it.
  6. Run all follow-up commands in the verified target context.

Start Feature Workspace

Use for a new feature start.

  1. Normalize feature name to kebab-case <name>.
  2. Determine the project root, the directory containing .git.
  3. If the user explicitly requests no worktree:
    • Continue in the current repository and branch.
    • Call out that branch/workspace isolation is reduced.
    • Skip to dependency bootstrap.
  4. Otherwise use branch/worktree name feature-<name>.
  5. Ensure .worktrees is listed in the project .gitignore; if not, add it.
  6. If branch does not exist, run git worktree add -b feature-<name> .worktrees/feature-<name>.
  7. If branch exists and the target worktree does not, run git worktree add .worktrees/feature-<name> feature-<name>.
  8. If the target worktree already exists, reuse it after verifying it is clean enough for the requested work.
  9. Verify worktree context with git -C .worktrees/feature-<name> branch --show-current; it must equal feature-<name>.
  10. Return the active workdir path for the next phase.

Resume Feature Workspace

Use when continuing an existing feature.

  1. Check current branch with git branch --show-current.
  2. Check available worktrees with git worktree list.
  3. Prefer <project-root>/.worktrees/feature-<name> when it exists.
  4. Otherwise use branch feature-<name> in the current repository.
  5. Include the selected target in the plan and wait for approval before switching.
  6. After approval, run future phase commands in the selected context.

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 74 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 108c3024bcfa

Subscribe to this mod's changes

dev-worktree is a skill published in the GitHub repository codeaholicguy/ai-devkit (1,601 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 894 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.

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