create-a-worktree

create-a-worktree is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lonormaly/builders-stack. It costs 37 tokens per session (526 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A tool-specific guide for creating, inspecting, and removing isolated Git worktrees through Worktree Zero. A worktree is another checkout of the same repository, so agents can work in parallel without sharing one mutable checkout.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create a separate branch and directory for another agent, inspect its runtime, diagnose storage or dependency-sharing issues, and retire the checkout when finished.
Why use it?
It provides a prescribed way to make parallel checkouts while preserving existing changes and controlling dependency sharing. It also gives checks for the pinned tool version and storage usage.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

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/lonormaly/builders-stack/create-a-worktree
Any agent
npx skills add lonormaly/builders-stack --skill create-a-worktree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lonormaly/builders-stack

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 526 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 5.1 $0.00037 $0.00526
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00263
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00105
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00053

Measured today against content hash f126ca0b8ba4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

create-a-worktree 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 today.

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.

agents/skills/create-a-worktree/SKILL.md · 55 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 55 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Create a Builders Stack worktree

Use the repository adapter. It keeps project policy in Builders Stack while the generic source and runtime lifecycle comes from the single wt0 binary.

Create

  1. Preserve every existing change in the current checkout.
  2. Confirm ops/dev/wt0.sh --version reports the version pinned in .wt0-version and Bun 1.3.14 is available. The launcher verifies the release checksum before caching the binary.
  3. From the main checkout, run:
ops/dev/worktree.sh <namespaced-branch>

Use the absolute path it prints. Do not call raw git worktree, copy the repo, copy node_modules, or share a complete mutable dependency directory. The wrapper requires copy-on-write source and attaches the verified Bun prepared environment before reporting the checkout ready.

Work and inspect

  • Start the stack only through the checkout's normal project command.
  • Use ops/dev/wt0.sh doctor <path> when storage or dependency sharing is in doubt.
  • Keep the returned branch and path as the runtime identity for later cleanup.
  • Treat Finder and du as logical size only. Use the Worktree Zero physical receipt when reporting actual disk allocation.

Remove

After the patch is present in origin/main, leave the checkout and run:

ops/dev/worktree.sh --rm <branch>

The adapter refuses dirty source, unknown ignored files, live processes, unmerged patches, and unpreserved merge commits. Never force past a refusal. Use ops/dev/worktree.sh --gc to evaluate finished managed worktrees; it keeps anything that fails the same safety checks. Provenance for these checks isn't tied to the wrapper alone: a worktree created straight through wt0 create or wt0 run (bypassing this wrapper entirely) is just as safely removable — wt0's own fleet record proves ownership in place of the wrapper's marker file. Prefer ops/dev/worktree.sh <branch> above for the extra guardrails (Bun-version floor, prepared environment, worktree cap, free-disk floor), but a bare wt0 create/wt0 run checkout still tears down cleanly through wt0 remove.

Read the full file on GitHub · 55 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. today First seen · 55 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A f126ca0b8ba4

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create-a-worktree is a skill published in the GitHub repository lonormaly/builders-stack (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 526 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 2026-09-05.

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