load-branch-changes

load-branch-changes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ivklgn/ai-kit. It costs 53 tokens per session (399 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for loading the current Git branch’s changes into the agent’s working context. Git branches are separate lines of development, and a diff shows how one line differs from another.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with /load-branch-changes when reviewing a branch, understanding its commits, inspecting changed files, or focusing later work on the current branch’s diff.
Why use it?
It gathers changed files, commits, and the full patch against the repository’s base branch in one step. This gives the agent the context needed to review or discuss the branch without manually locating each change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the ai-kit plugin — 21 skills, 15 commands, 30 agents, 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/ivklgn/ai-kit/load-branch-changes
Any agent
npx skills add ivklgn/ai-kit --skill load-branch-changes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivklgn/ai-kit

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install ai-kit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 21 skills, 15 commands, 30 agents, 1 MCP server.

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README.md
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Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 399 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 $0.00053 $0.00399
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00199
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00080
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00040

Measured 4d ago against content hash eed42c515e04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

load-branch-changes 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 4d 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.

plugins/ai-kit/skills/load-branch-changes/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Load Branch Changes

Load the current branch's changes into context and set them as the working focus for the session.

Step 1: Detect Base Branch

BASE=$(git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@')
if [ -z "$BASE" ]; then
  BASE=$(git rev-parse --verify main 2>/dev/null && echo main || echo master)
fi
echo "$BASE"

Step 2: Collect Branch Information

Run all three commands using the detected $BASE:

Changed files:

git diff --name-only $BASE...HEAD

Commit history:

git log $BASE..HEAD --pretty=format:"%h %s"

Full diff with stats:

git diff $BASE...HEAD --patch-with-stat

Step 3: Present Results

Display output in three labeled sections:

  1. Changed Files — file list
  2. Commits — commit log
  3. Diff — full patch with stats

If no changes found, report that the branch has no changes relative to the base branch and stop.

Step 4: Set Session Context

After presenting the results, treat these branch changes as the primary working context for the rest of the session. When the user references "the changes", "the diff", "these files", or similar — they mean the branch changes loaded here. Prioritize changed files and diff when answering questions, suggesting reviews, or proposing edits.

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. 4d ago First seen · 53 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A eed42c515e04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

load-branch-changes is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivklgn/ai-kit (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 399 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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