branch-recap

branch-recap is a skill for Claude Code from Malo-T/claude-toolbelt. It costs 338 tokens per session (7,332 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that summarizes the changes made on the current Git branch before it is pushed. It groups changed files by what was done, why, and how, and points out items that need another look.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing branch changes before opening a pull request or pushing code, with optional limits such as recent commits or only backend files.
Why use it?
It helps developers understand and review work produced on a branch without reading a long raw diff.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the branch-recap plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing branch changes before opening a pull request or pushing code, with optional limits such as recent commits or only backend files.

Compare 6 skills from other repositories ↓
Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/branch-recap
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 Malo-T/claude-toolbelt --skill branch-recap
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Malo-T/claude-toolbelt

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install branch-recap, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for branch-recap

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/branch-recap/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/branch-recap)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/branch-recap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/branch-recap/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for branch-recap

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/branch-recap"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/malo-t/claude-toolbelt/branch-recap.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 338 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,332 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 $0.00338 $0.07332
Opus 5 $0.00169 $0.03666
Sonnet 5 $0.00068 $0.01466
Haiku 4.5 $0.00034 $0.00733

Measured 11d ago against content hash ad01de875ffb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch-recap 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/branch-recap/skills/branch-recap/SKILL.md · 578 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 578 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Branch Recap

Tell the user what happened on their branch, so they can settle it before pushing. The situation this exists for: the work got produced fast — often with an assistant holding the keyboard — the result works, and nobody really knows what it changed. Taking stock is the job.

So the deliverable is what was done, why, how, and what deserves a second look, group by group, and then one question set to steer from. Not the code: the user has git diff, and what they lack is the account of it. Quote a few lines only where a remark is unreadable without them, and let them ask for any diff they want to see.

Two failure modes to avoid. Reprinting the branch: a wall of hunks is unreadable in a terminal, and every line of it pushes the decisions further down the scroll. And chopping the account into prompts: a question between every two groups scatters the remarks across a corridor of round-trips. One account, one question set, one round of fixes.

Invocation

/branch-recap [optional restriction]

Examples:

  • /branch-recap
  • /branch-recap les 2 derniers commits
  • /branch-recap seulement le back
  • "je voudrais repasser sur ce que j'ai fait avant d'ouvrir la MR"
  • "on a produit ça en deux heures, qu'est-ce qui a changé au juste avant que je pousse ?"

Step 1 — Resolve the scope

Never start reading before you know exactly what you are reading and the user has seen it.

The default is the current branch against its parent, up to their last common commit. Everything else is the user's to name — "les 3 derniers commits", "ce qui touche au composant paiement", "juste ce que je n'ai pas poussé". Take what they said; only work out the default when they said nothing.

Git has no notion of a parent branch, so it has to be inferred: among the integration branches that exist — origin/HEAD, origin/develop, origin/main, origin/master — take the one whose merge-base with HEAD is closest, in commits. That winner is <base>, the single name used for it everywhere below:

Read the full file on GitHub · 578 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 · 578 lines · 338 tokens per session scan A ad01de875ffb

Subscribe to this mod's changes

branch-recap is a skill published in the GitHub repository Malo-T/claude-toolbelt (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 338 tokens to every session and 7,332 once invoked, about $0.0017 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.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

github-audit

Audit GitHub repo health, auto-fix safe issues, run quality gates, deploy, and record decisions across runs. Use when asked to audit a repo, check repo/CI/dependency health, run pre-deploy quality checks, or ship after an audit.

adamjali/claude-skills · 57 tokens

commit-push-pr

Full git workflow - creates branch, commits, pushes, and creates or updates a PR with summary and test plan.

sneg55/agent-starter · 28 tokens

commit

Create a single well-crafted git commit from current changes. Analyzes diff, follows repo's commit style, and writes a concise "why not what" message.

sneg55/agent-starter · 35 tokens

update-architecture-atlas

Create or refresh a versioned Curie architecture-atlas JSON snapshot from a git diff, including current and vision flows, maturity-rated seams, ADRs, and documentation drift. Use when asked to update, regenerate, compare, or add a version to the interactive architecture atlas.

curie-eng/curie · 61 tokens

release

Automated release management - version updates, changelog generation, git tagging, and GitHub release creation.

Edmonds-Commerce-Limited/claude-code-hooks-daemon · 22 tokens

pr-conventions

Author PR descriptions from the right per-change-type template (the repo's own PULLREQUESTTEMPLATE wins), embed issue-tracker links, keep the description current as fixes land, and reply to human and bot review threads. INVOKE when opening or updating a PR or responding to reviewer comments — inside /sonu:ship or…

PrabhdeepSingh/claude-plugins · 80 tokens