use-worktree

use-worktree is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from hxy91819/mason-skills. It costs 21 tokens per session (267 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for creating a separate Git working directory and branch for one task. A Git worktree lets you work on another branch without switching the branch in your main directory.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when a task needs its own branch and directory, especially when the main checkout contains other changes or when isolated testing is useful.
Why use it?
It keeps task changes isolated from unrelated work and provides a clean starting point for development. It also removes the temporary worktree after delivery.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it when a task needs its own branch and directory, especially when the main checkout contains other changes or when isolated testing is useful.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/hxy91819/mason-skills/use-worktree
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 hxy91819/mason-skills --skill use-worktree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hxy91819/mason-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 21 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 267 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 $0.00021 $0.00267
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00133
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured yesterday against content hash 955917979756, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

use-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 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.

common-skills/use-worktree/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Use Worktree

Use this skill only when the user explicitly invokes it. The invocation authorizes creating, managing, and cleaning up one worktree and branch owned by the current task.

Location Convention

  • Path: <repo-root>/.worktrees/<task-name>
  • Exclude: Ensure /.worktrees/ is recorded in .git/info/exclude once so task worktrees remain ignored.

Workflow

  1. Start: Check current workspace status. Create the task branch and worktree under .worktrees/<task-name> from the target remote default branch (e.g. origin/main).
  2. Work: Perform all edits, tests, commits, and pushes inside the task worktree. Never use git stash.
  3. Clean Up: Once the work is merged into the target branch or a PR/MR is submitted with its commits pushed to remote, clean up:
    • Remove the task worktree and delete its local branch.
    • Never use --force. If the worktree is dirty or commits are not durably pushed, keep it intact and report the path.
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. yesterday Changed 955917979756
  2. 2d ago Changed · -7 lines b6d5668b32f1
  3. 11d ago First seen · 30 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 6dd5192eb7ce

Subscribe to this mod's changes

use-worktree is a skill published in the GitHub repository hxy91819/mason-skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 267 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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