cast-worktree

cast-worktree is a skill for Claude Code from codecast-sh/codecast. It costs 63 tokens per session (349 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for putting work in an isolated Git worktree with its own environment files, setup, and ports. A worktree is a separate working directory connected to the same repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for parallel tasks, risky changes, or situations where another session edits the same files.
Why use it?
Two coding sessions in one checkout can overwrite files, Git index changes, environment settings, or development-server ports. Isolation prevents those collisions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it for parallel tasks, risky changes, or situations where another session edits the same files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/codecast-sh/codecast/cast-worktree
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 codecast-sh/codecast --skill cast-worktree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/codecast-sh/codecast

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 349 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 $0.00063 $0.00349
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00140
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00070
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00035

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c5afe246fdf9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cast-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 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.

packages/cli/skills/cast-worktree/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Two sessions in one checkout race on the index and on every shared file. A worktree gives each its own tree; codecast's version also copies the gitignored env files, runs the project's setup, and allocates ports so two dev servers do not fight.

cast ws acquire <name>              # create or attach; prints the path
cd "$(cast ws path <name>)"         # a binary cannot cd the shell, so this is explicit
cast ws status <name>               # ports, env, contract checks

Use a name that says what the work is (fix-auth-race, a task id). If the repository has no .codecast/workspace.toml, run cast ws init once from the root so ports and setup are detected.

Work there. Before landing: git fetch origin main && git rebase origin/main in the worktree, resolve, then commit on its branch. Return with cd "$(git worktree list | head -1 | awk '{print $1}')".

With destroy: cast ws destroy <name> once the branch is merged. Never destroy a worktree with uncommitted work in it; git -C "$(cast ws path <name>)" status -sb first.

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 · 29 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A c5afe246fdf9

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cast-worktree is a skill published in the GitHub repository codecast-sh/codecast (40 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 349 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-15.