git-worktree

A helper for managing Git worktrees, which are separate working folders linked to one repository. It supports creating, viewing, switching between, and cleaning up these folders.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to work on several branches at once, review a pull request separately, or remove finished worktrees safely.
Why use it?
It keeps parallel features, reviews, or experiments isolated so changes do not interfere with each other. It also handles setup files and development-tool approvals when making a new worktree.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the compound-engineering plugin — 41 skills, 1 MCP server shipped together

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/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi/git-worktree
Any agent
npx skills add gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi --skill git-worktree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install compound-engineering, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 41 skills, 1 MCP server.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,228 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 $0.00039 $0.02228
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01114
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00446
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00223

Measured 3d ago against content hash 98552ca8b721, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-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 3d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/worktree-manager.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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

3 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/compound-engineering/skills/git-worktree/SKILL.md · 311 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 311 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Worktree Manager

This skill provides a unified interface for managing Git worktrees across your development workflow. Whether you're reviewing PRs in isolation or working on features in parallel, this skill handles all the complexity.

What This Skill Does

  • Create worktrees from main branch with clear branch names
  • List worktrees with current status
  • Switch between worktrees for parallel work
  • Clean up completed worktrees automatically
  • Interactive confirmations at each step
  • Automatic .gitignore management for worktree directory
  • Automatic .env file copying from main repo to new worktrees
  • Automatic dev tool trusting for mise and direnv configs with review-safe guardrails

CRITICAL: Always Use the Manager Script

NEVER call git worktree add directly. Always use the worktree-manager.sh script.

The script handles critical setup that raw git commands don't:

  1. Copies .env, .env.local, .env.test, etc. from main repo
  2. Trusts dev tool configs with branch-aware safety rules:
    • mise: auto-trust only when unchanged from a trusted baseline branch
    • direnv: auto-allow only for trusted base branches; review worktrees stay manual
  3. Ensures .worktrees is in .gitignore
  4. Creates consistent directory structure
# ✅ CORRECT - Always use the script
bash ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/git-worktree/scripts/worktree-manager.sh create feature-name

# ❌ WRONG - Never do this directly
git worktree add .worktrees/feature-name -b feature-name main

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill in these scenarios:

  1. Code Review (/ce:review): If NOT already on the target branch (PR branch or requested branch), offer worktree for isolated review
  2. Feature Work (/ce:work): Always ask if user wants parallel worktree or live branch work
  3. Parallel Development: When working on multiple features simultaneously
  4. Cleanup: After completing work in a worktree

How to Use

In Claude Code Workflows

Read the full file on GitHub · 311 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. 3d ago First seen · 311 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 98552ca8b721

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-worktree is a skill published in the GitHub repository gvkhosla/compound-engineering-pi (51 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,228 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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