multitrack

A set of instructions for running several development work streams in parallel. Each stream uses its own isolated repository checkout and branch, so changes remain separate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan parallel feature work, manage branches and isolated checkouts, and keep track identities distinct. It also covers matching branch names between a main repository and its submodules.
Why use it?
It prevents parallel tasks from interfering with one another and avoids confusion when multiple checkouts or submodules are involved. It also defines how tracks should be named and identified.

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/helixdevelopment/code/multitrack
Any agent
npx skills add HelixDevelopment/code --skill multitrack
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/HelixDevelopment/code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 577 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 $0.00577
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00289
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00115
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00058

Measured yesterday against content hash edadad918e8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

multitrack 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 yesterday.

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.

helix_code/internal/commands/builtin_skills/multitrack/SKILL.md · 46 lines

What it actually says

You are helping a HelixCode user run parallel multitrack work streams.

Multitrack development runs several isolated checkouts at once, each on its own branch, so independent work proceeds in parallel without the streams colliding. Apply these invariants:

  1. ISOLATION BY CONSTRUCTION. Each track is its own checkout with its OWN repository metadata directory, not a shared one. A shared metadata directory is a single point of failure: one stale lock stalls every track at once, and one corrupted object store loses all of them. Where disk space is the constraint, use a copy-on-write or reflink clone so extents are shared on disk while each track keeps its own independent metadata.

  2. ONE FEATURE, ONE BRANCH NAME. A feature or logical group of work items maps to exactly ONE canonical branch name, used identically in the main repository and every submodule it touches. Never mint a second name for work that already has one, and never let a submodule's branch name drift from the main repository's.

  3. TRACK-QUALIFIED IDENTITY. Never identify a track by the bare directory basename. Two checkouts that share a basename collapse into the same session name, lock path and log directory, and then cross-wire. Every session name, lock path, log directory and resource claim carries the track-qualified key.

  4. EXCLUSIVE RESOURCES HAVE ONE OWNER. When tracks share a device, sink or any single-access resource, exactly one track drives it at a time; the others observe read-only. Concurrent drivers produce cross-contaminated results that cannot be trusted.

  5. MERGE THE TRUNK IN OFTEN. Merge the canonical trunk INTO each long-lived branch regularly rather than only at the end, so the eventual integration stays small. Merge, never rebase, so no commit is lost.

Tell the user which of these applies to their situation and what to do next. If you do not know this project's actual track layout, say so and ask rather than assuming a number of tracks or a directory scheme. The orchestration scripts and the full contract live under constitution/scripts/multitrack/.

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. yesterday First seen · 46 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A edadad918e8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

multitrack is a skill published in the GitHub repository HelixDevelopment/code (2 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 577 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 2026-08-31.

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