ctx-branch

ctx-branch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dchu917/ctx. It costs 19 tokens per session (91 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workstream branching tool that creates a new workstream from a copied context snapshot. The new workstream starts frozen at that point.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a new workstream from an existing one with a chosen source and target name.
Why use it?
It lets you explore a separate line of work without changing the original context or bringing in its later transcript updates.

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/ctx-branch
Any agent
npx skills add dchu917/ctx --skill ctx-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 ctx-branch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dchu917/ctx/ctx-branch.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/dchu917/ctx/ctx-branch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/dchu917/ctx/ctx-branch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/dchu917/ctx/ctx-branch.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 91 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 $0.00019 $0.00091
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00046
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00018
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00009

Measured 5d ago against content hash 55d4ce38697d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ctx-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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/skills/ctx_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/codex/ctx-branch/SKILL.md · 15 lines

What it actually says

Usage

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

Backing script

  • scripts/skills/ctx_branch.sh

Notes

  • The target workstream must not already exist.
  • The new branch starts from a copied context snapshot and does not inherit the source workstream's future transcript pulls.
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. 5d ago First seen · 15 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 55d4ce38697d

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ctx-branch is a skill published in the GitHub repository dchu917/ctx (128 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 91 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.

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