configure-gitignore

configure-gitignore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 37 tokens per session (1,342 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository setup guide that adds Claude Code's temporary files to .gitignore. Git uses this file to avoid committing files that should stay local.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when onboarding a repository or cleaning up missing ignore rules for Claude Code runtime files.
Why use it?
It prevents agent worktrees, scheduled-task locks, and local settings from appearing as untracked files or entering commits.

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-gitignore
Any agent
npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill configure-gitignore
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 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,342 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 $0.00037 $0.01342
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00671
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00268
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00134

Measured yesterday against content hash 40a8a56ae00b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configure-gitignore 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-gitignore/SKILL.md · 127 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 127 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/configure:gitignore

Append a managed Claude Code runtime-state block to a repo's .gitignore so the files Claude Code writes during a session — agent worktrees, the scheduled-task lock, the per-user local settings overlay — never get committed. The block is added non-destructively: every other line in the repo's .gitignore is left untouched.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use another approach when...
Onboarding a repo to Claude Code (also reachable via /configure:repo) Ignoring a project-specific build artifact — edit .gitignore directly
A repo's .gitignore is missing the Claude Code runtime-state entries Configuring .gitattributes — use /configure:gitattributes
.claude/worktrees/ or settings.local.json keeps showing as untracked Configuring Claude Code settings — use /configure:repo

The managed block

# Claude Code runtime state (managed by /configure:gitignore)
.claude/worktrees/
/worktrees/
.claude/scheduled_tasks.lock
.claude/settings.local.json
Entry Why it's ignored
.claude/worktrees/ Agent worktree checkouts created by Agent(isolation: "worktree") and Wave dispatch
/worktrees/ Repo-root variant some workflows use for the same agent worktrees
.claude/scheduled_tasks.lock Scheduled-task lock — pure runtime state
.claude/settings.local.json Per-user local settings overlay — personal, not shared

The block is additive only — it never removes or reorders existing lines, and a project that wants more ignored (e.g. OpenCode export artifacts) keeps those entries alongside this block.

Context

  • Existing gitignore: !find . -maxdepth 1 -name .gitignore -type f
  • Claude dir present: !find . -maxdepth 2 -type d -name .claude

Parameters

Parameter Description
--check-only Report which managed entries are missing without writing any file
--fix Append the missing entries without prompting

Read the full file on GitHub · 127 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 · 127 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A 40a8a56ae00b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

configure-gitignore is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (57 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 1,342 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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