git-worktree

A manager for Git worktrees, which are separate working folders connected to the same repository. They let developers work on multiple branches at the same time without repeatedly switching one folder.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create, list, switch between, or clean up worktrees for parallel development or isolated reviews. It also applies repository-specific setup and safety checks.
Why use it?
It handles setup details that are easy to miss when creating worktrees manually, such as copying environment files and managing development-tool permissions.

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/marcusrbrown/systematic/git-worktree
Any agent
npx skills add marcusrbrown/systematic --skill git-worktree
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/marcusrbrown/systematic

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,394 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00039 $0.02394
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.01197
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00479
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00239

Measured 2d ago against content hash b69e548eada2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/worktree-manager.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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

This is a copy

91% identical to git-worktree — 68 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/git-worktree/SKILL.md · 335 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 335 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Worktree Manager

This skill provides a unified interface for managing Git worktrees across your development workflow. Whether you're reviewing PRs in isolation or working on features in parallel, this skill handles all the complexity.

What This Skill Does

  • Create worktrees from main branch with clear branch names
  • List worktrees with current status
  • Switch between worktrees for parallel work
  • Clean up completed worktrees automatically
  • Interactive confirmations at each step
  • Automatic .gitignore management for worktree directory
  • Automatic .env file copying from main repo to new worktrees
  • Automatic dev tool trusting for mise and direnv configs with review-safe guardrails

CRITICAL: Always Use the Manager Script

NEVER call git worktree add directly. Always use the worktree-manager.sh script.

The script handles critical setup that raw git commands don't:

  1. Copies .env, .env.local, .env.test, etc. from main repo
  2. Trusts dev tool configs with branch-aware safety rules:
    • mise: auto-trust only when unchanged from a trusted baseline branch
    • direnv: auto-allow only for trusted base branches; review worktrees stay manual
  3. Ensures .worktrees is in .gitignore
  4. Creates consistent directory structure

When this skill loads, its own directory is stated in the surrounding instructions; set SKILL_DIR to that directory because the scripts live beside this file.

# ✅ CORRECT - Always use the script
# Resolve the manager script relative to this skill's directory.
SKILL_DIR="<skill directory stated when this skill loads>";
bash "$SKILL_DIR/scripts/worktree-manager.sh" create feature-name

# ❌ WRONG - Never do this directly
git worktree add .worktrees/feature-name -b feature-name main

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill in these scenarios:

  1. Code Review (/ce:review): If NOT already on the target branch (PR branch or requested branch), offer worktree for isolated review
  2. Feature Work (/ce:work): Always ask if user wants parallel worktree or live branch work
  3. Parallel Development: When working on multiple features simultaneously
  4. Cleanup: After completing work in a worktree

Read the full file on GitHub · 335 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 2d ago First seen · 335 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A b69e548eada2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-worktree is a skill published in the GitHub repository marcusrbrown/systematic (24 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 2,394 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to git-worktree, differing in 68 lines, and is treated as a copy.