git-worktrees

git-worktrees is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lexler/skill-factory. It costs 33 tokens per session (336 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A Git worktree creates another working directory linked to the same repository, usually with its own branch. Git is the version-control system used to track code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, and clean up separate directories for parallel feature work, using consistent branch and folder names.
Why use it?
It lets you work on several branches at once without repeatedly switching the files in one directory. This is useful when features need to be developed or reviewed in parallel.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/lexler/skill-factory/git-worktrees
Any agent
npx skills add lexler/skill-factory --skill git-worktrees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lexler/skill-factory

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 336 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 $0.00033 $0.00336
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5a9679236bca, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-worktrees 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

output_skills/developer-tools/git-worktrees/SKILL.md · 55 lines

What it actually says

Git Worktrees

Directory Convention

Worktrees live in a sibling directory named <project>_worktrees:

parent/
├── myproject/              # main repo
└── myproject_worktrees/    # worktrees directory
    ├── feature_1/
    └── feature_2/

Branch Naming

Use <feature>_<N> pattern when creating multiple worktrees:

  • auth-refactor_1, auth-refactor_2
  • api-migration_1, api-migration_2

Workflow

  1. Get project name from current directory
  2. Create worktrees directory if needed: ../<project>_worktrees/
  3. Create worktree with new branch: git worktree add <path> -b <branch>

Creating Multiple Worktrees

When asked for N worktrees for a feature:

PROJECT=$(basename "$PWD")
WORKTREES_DIR="../${PROJECT}_worktrees"
mkdir -p "$WORKTREES_DIR"

for i in $(seq 1 N); do
    git worktree add "${WORKTREES_DIR}/<feature>_${i}" -b "<feature>_${i}"
done

Cleanup

Remove worktree and branch:

git worktree remove <path>
git branch -d <branch>

List all worktrees: git worktree list

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 · 55 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 5a9679236bca

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-worktrees is a skill published in the GitHub repository lexler/skill-factory (231 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 336 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 2026-08-30.

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