branch

branch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dchu917/ctx. It costs 17 tokens per session (92 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for copying a workstream's current context snapshot into a new workstream. The new workstream starts from that snapshot but does not share future conversation records with the original.

In plain words
What is it for?
Creating a new workstream from an existing one for experiments, alternatives, or parallel tasks.
Why use it?
It lets you explore a separate direction without changing the original workstream's later context.

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/dchu917/ctx/branch
Any agent
npx skills add dchu917/ctx --skill branch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dchu917/ctx

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dchu917/ctx/branch.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dchu917/ctx/branch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dchu917/ctx/branch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dchu917/ctx/branch.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 92 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 $0.00017 $0.00092
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00046
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00009

Measured 3d ago against content hash 248672d17b39, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch 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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/branch.sh, scripts/skills/branch.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/claude/branch/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Usage

  • /branch <source-workstream> <target-workstream>

Backing script

  • scripts/branch.sh

Notes

  • The target workstream must not already exist.
  • The branch gets a snapshot of the source workstream's current context, but it does not inherit the source's external Claude/Codex transcript bindings.
Files

What ships with it

2 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. 3d ago First seen · 15 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 248672d17b39

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branch is a skill published in the GitHub repository dchu917/ctx (128 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 92 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.