using-git-worktrees

using-git-worktrees is a skill for Claude Code from ForgeyClap/claude-forge. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,779 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of using-git-worktrees, MIT.

A setup guide for using a Git worktree, an additional working folder linked to the same Git repository, so feature work is isolated from the current workspace. It checks for existing isolation and then uses native tools or a Git fallback.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before feature work or plan execution to create or confirm an isolated workspace for code changes.
Why use it?
It keeps changes for a feature or implementation plan separate from unrelated work. It also avoids creating a nested or unnecessary worktree when isolation already exists.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it before feature work or plan execution to create or confirm an isolated workspace for code changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/forgeyclap/claude-forge/using-git-worktrees
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 ForgeyClap/claude-forge --skill using-git-worktrees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ForgeyClap/claude-forge

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,779 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 92% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00036 $0.01779
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00712
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00356
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00178

Measured 21d ago against content hash 4d56e4ce9322, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-git-worktrees 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 21d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

92% identical to using-git-worktrees — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/using-git-worktrees/SKILL.md · 178 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 178 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Using Git Worktrees

Overview

Ensure work happens in an isolated workspace. Prefer your platform's native worktree tools. Fall back to manual git worktrees only when no native tool is available.

Core principle: Detect existing isolation first. Then use native tools. Then fall back to git. Never fight the harness.

Announce at start: "I'm using the using-git-worktrees skill to set up an isolated workspace."

Step 0: Detect Existing Isolation

Before creating anything, check if you are already in an isolated workspace.

GIT_DIR=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)
GIT_COMMON=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)
BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)

Submodule guard: GIT_DIR != GIT_COMMON is also true inside git submodules. Before concluding "already in a worktree," verify you are not in a submodule:

# If this returns a path, you're in a submodule, not a worktree — treat as normal repo
git rev-parse --show-superproject-working-tree 2>/dev/null

If GIT_DIR != GIT_COMMON (and not a submodule): You are already in a linked worktree. Skip to Step 2 (Project Setup). Do NOT create another worktree.

Report with branch state:

  • On a branch: "Already in isolated workspace at <path> on branch <name>."
  • Detached HEAD: "Already in isolated workspace at <path> (detached HEAD, externally managed). Branch creation needed at finish time."

Read the full file on GitHub · 178 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. 21d ago First seen · 178 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 4d56e4ce9322

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using-git-worktrees is a skill published in the GitHub repository ForgeyClap/claude-forge (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,779 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 92% identical to using-git-worktrees, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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