configure-gitattributes

configure-gitattributes is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 45 tokens per session (1,576 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A setup guide for .gitattributes, a Git file that controls how specific files are merged, displayed, or stored. It covers append-only tables, generated files, and line-ending normalization.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add safe union merging for append-only files, mark build output as generated, and normalize text files to LF line endings.
Why use it?
It reduces avoidable merge conflicts, noisy pull-request diffs, and inconsistent line endings without changing the files themselves.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the configure-plugin plugin — 48 skills 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/laurigates/claude-plugins/configure-gitattributes
Any agent
npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill configure-gitattributes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install configure-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 48 skills.

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,576 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 $0.00045 $0.01576
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00788
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00315
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00158

Measured yesterday against content hash f8218d071e8f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configure-gitattributes 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.

configure-plugin/skills/configure-gitattributes/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/configure:gitattributes

Audit or create a repo's .gitattributes, applying the three high-value attributes — merge=union for append-only tables, linguist-generated for build output, and LF normalization — while never applying merge=union to a file it would corrupt. See .claude/rules/gitattributes.md for the convention.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use another approach when...
A repo has no .gitattributes and wants the standard baseline Changing a single setting in an existing file — edit it directly
Parallel PRs keep conflicting on an append-only table/changelog The conflict is semantic (same line edited) — that needs a real merge
Onboarding a repo (also reachable via /configure:repo) Configuring Claude Code settings — use /configure:repo
Build output (changelogs, lockfiles, generated trees) clutters PR diffs

Context

  • Existing attributes: !find . -maxdepth 1 -name .gitattributes -type f
  • Shell scripts present: !find . -name '*.sh' -not -path '*/.git/*' -path '*/scripts/*'
  • Changelogs: !find . -name 'CHANGELOG.md' -not -path '*/.git/*'
  • Generated trees: !find . -type d -name generated -not -path '*/.git/*'
  • Rendered diagrams: !find . -path '*/docs/diagrams/*' -name '*.svg'
  • Lockfiles: !find . -maxdepth 3 \( -name 'uv.lock' -o -name 'bun.lock' -o -name 'package-lock.json' -o -name 'pnpm-lock.yaml' \)

Parameters

Parameter Description
--check-only Report the proposed additions without writing any file
--fix Apply the safe (zero-risk) additions without prompting

Default (no flag): propose the additions, write them, and git add the file (staged, not committed).

Execution

Execute this .gitattributes configuration workflow:

Step 1: Read existing state

If a .gitattributes exists (from Context), Read it and record which paths are already covered. Otherwise plan to create one with a header comment.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. yesterday First seen · 126 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A f8218d071e8f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

configure-gitattributes is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (58 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 1,576 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 2026-09-03.

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