branch-strategy-advisor

branch-strategy-advisor is a skill for Claude Code from latestaiagents/agent-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,699 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for choosing how a team organizes Git branches, such as trunk-based development, GitHub Flow, or GitFlow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to set branch names, choose a workflow, define protection rules, and organize feature, fix, and release branches.
Why use it?
It helps teams choose branch rules that fit their release pace, team size, and deployment process.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the developer-toolkit plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to set branch names, choose a workflow, define protection rules, and organize feature, fix, and release branches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/latestaiagents/agent-skills/branch-strategy-advisor
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 latestaiagents/agent-skills --skill branch-strategy-advisor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/latestaiagents/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install developer-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,699 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 $0.00055 $0.01699
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00849
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00340
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00170

Measured 11d ago against content hash 3e9ea35b4235, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch-strategy-advisor 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 11d 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/developer-toolkit/skills/git/branch-strategy-advisor/SKILL.md · 267 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 267 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Branch Strategy Advisor

Choose and implement the right branching strategy for your team.

When to Use

  • Setting up a new project's branching workflow
  • Deciding between GitFlow, trunk-based, or GitHub Flow
  • Standardizing branch naming conventions
  • Configuring branch protection rules
  • Scaling branching for larger teams

Strategy Comparison

Strategy Best For Release Cadence Team Size
Trunk-Based Continuous deployment, experienced teams Daily/hourly Any
GitHub Flow SaaS products, simple workflow On-demand Small-Medium
GitFlow Scheduled releases, multiple versions Weekly/Monthly Medium-Large

Strategy 1: Trunk-Based Development

Best for: Teams with strong CI/CD, continuous deployment, feature flags.

main ─────●─────●─────●─────●─────●─────●───→
           \   /       \   /       \   /
feature-a  ●─●        ●─●        ●─●
(short-lived, merged within 1-2 days)

Rules

  • main is always deployable
  • Feature branches live < 2 days
  • Use feature flags for incomplete features
  • No long-running branches

Branch Naming

feature/ABC-123-short-description
fix/ABC-456-bug-description

Commands

# Start feature
git checkout -b feature/ABC-123-user-auth main

# Keep updated (daily)
git fetch origin
git rebase origin/main

# Merge (same day or next)
git checkout main
git merge --no-ff feature/ABC-123-user-auth

Strategy 2: GitHub Flow

Best for: SaaS products, web apps with continuous deployment.

main ───────●───────●───────●───────●───────→
             \     /         \     /
              ●───●           ●───●
         feature-branch    bugfix-branch
              (PR)             (PR)

Rules

  • main is always deployable
  • Create branch from main for any change
  • Open PR for discussion
  • Deploy from main after merge

Branch Naming

feature/user-authentication
bugfix/login-redirect-loop
hotfix/security-patch
docs/api-documentation

Read the full file on GitHub · 267 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 267 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 3e9ea35b4235

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branch-strategy-advisor is a skill published in the GitHub repository latestaiagents/agent-skills (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,699 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 2026-08-31.

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