wip

A repository cleanup workflow for unfinished work spread across Git worktrees and branches. A worktree is another working directory linked to the same repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to remove stale worktrees, rebase branches, delete branches that are already merged, rerun tests after rebasing, and push branches that pass.
Why use it?
It brings leftover work toward a clean state while protecting uncommitted changes and unexpected remote updates.

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/motlin/claude-code-plugins/wip
Any agent
npx skills add motlin/claude-code-plugins --skill wip
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/motlin/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,187 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 $0.00134 $0.02187
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.01094
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00437
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00219

Measured 2d ago against content hash 92a2e018fe99, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

wip 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.

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/git/skills/wip/SKILL.md · 143 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 143 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/wip — work-in-progress cleanup pipeline

Drive a repo full of leftover worktrees and half-finished branches toward a clean, landed state. The pipeline has four phases that run in order, each gated:

  • Worktrees — remove every worktree except the main one and protected ones, freeing their branches for rebase.
  • Rebase + GC — rebase every branch onto the upstream main (j g / git-all), deleting branches that have merged.
  • Test — re-test the rebased commits (rebasing invalidates prior test results).
  • Push — push the green branches; the user opens/merges PRs.

These four phases are the bulk-cleanup core of a longer idea → merged-PR lifecycle (the later stages — open PR, CI, review, merge — are the user's call). If the repo or user documents a WIP state model, follow it for those later stages.

Golden rules (read before doing anything)

  • Never --force. Worktree removal uses git worktree remove --no-force (write the flag explicitly); pushes use git push --force-with-lease. Git's refusal to act is the safety net that protects uncommitted work and unexpected remote changes — don't defeat it.
  • The worktree/branch set is a moving target. In an active repo, worktrees and branches get created, switched, and merged while you work (often by other agents or the user). Recompute the live set with git worktree list --porcelain / git for-each-ref immediately before each action — never trust a snapshot from a minute ago. Re-git fetch before testing and pushing.
  • Gate the irreversible, outward-facing steps. Removing a worktree with WIP, force-pushing, and delete-merged (which deletes remote branches) are hard to undo. Surface them and get the user's OK rather than charging ahead. Until the flow is proven smooth in a given repo, prefer asking at each phase boundary.
  • Work in dedicated worktrees, keep the main checkout clean. Rebases and tests check out commits; doing that in the user's main worktree disrupts them and leaves it detached/mid-rebase. Isolate each in its own throwaway worktree (git worktree add), then tear it down.

Read the full file on GitHub · 143 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 · 143 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 92a2e018fe99

Subscribe to this mod's changes

wip is a skill published in the GitHub repository motlin/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 2,187 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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