Fossil SCM Usage

Fossil SCM Usage is a skill for Claude Code from egravert/egravert-marketplace. It costs 91 tokens per session (1,857 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command-line guide for Fossil, a version-control system that also includes a wiki, issue tracker, and web interface. It explains Fossil workflows and how they differ from Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Committing, branching, merging, cloning, syncing, stashing, viewing project history, and managing Fossil tickets.
Why use it?
It reduces mistakes when using Fossil's distinct commands, repository format, branching model, and automatic syncing.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Needs its repository: it reads a path above its own folder, which exists only inside the repository. The line is fossil open ../myproject.fossil.

Part of the fossil-scm plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Committing, branching, merging, cloning, syncing, stashing, viewing project history, and managing Fossil tickets.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/egravert/egravert-marketplace
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/egravert/egravert-marketplace/fossil-usage

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install fossil-scm, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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Per session 91 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,857 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 $0.00091 $0.01857
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00928
Sonnet 5 $0.00018 $0.00371
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00186

Measured 10d ago against content hash 7e6289c3723e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Fossil SCM Usage 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 10d 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.

fossil-scm/skills/fossil-usage/SKILL.md · 245 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 245 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Fossil SCM Command Line Reference

Comprehensive guidance for managing projects with Fossil SCM from the command line, covering repository management, commits, branching, multi-user workflows, and the ticketing system.

Overview

Fossil is a distributed version control system combining source code management with an integrated wiki, ticketing system, and web interface—all in a single executable. Unlike Git, Fossil emphasizes simplicity, autosync by default, and feature-centric branching.

Key Concepts:

Concept Description
Repository SQLite database file (.fossil) containing all project history
Working checkout Directory where files are edited, linked via fossil open
Artifact Any versioned item (file, commit, ticket) identified by SHA hash
Autosync Default behavior that automatically pushes/pulls on commit/update

Core Differences from Git

Understanding these differences prevents common mistakes:

  1. Autosync is ON by default - Commits automatically push, updates automatically pull
  2. Branches created during commit - Use fossil commit --branch name not git checkout -b
  3. Single repository file - All history in one .fossil SQLite file
  4. Built-in features - Wiki, tickets, forum included (not separate tools)
  5. No staging area - All changed files commit together (use fossil commit file1 file2 for partial)

Essential Workflows

Starting a New Project

fossil init myproject.fossil
mkdir myproject && cd myproject
fossil open ../myproject.fossil
fossil add .
fossil commit -m "Initial commit"

Cloning and Working

fossil clone https://example.com/repo project.fossil
mkdir work && cd work
fossil open ../project.fossil

Feature Branch Workflow

# Start feature (creates branch during commit)
fossil commit --branch feature-login -m "Start login feature"

# Work on feature
fossil commit -m "Add login form"
fossil commit -m "Add validation"

# Merge back to trunk
fossil update trunk
fossil merge --integrate feature-login
fossil commit -m "Merged feature-login"

Read the full file on GitHub · 245 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. 10d ago First seen · 245 lines · 91 tokens per session scan A 7e6289c3723e

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Fossil SCM Usage is a skill published in the GitHub repository egravert/egravert-marketplace (4 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 91 tokens to every session and 1,857 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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