using-git

A set of rules for keeping Git version history clear and safe. Git records code changes so developers can review, share, and restore them.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps review and group related changes, write useful commit messages, create branches, and prepare pull requests with testing details.
Why use it?
It prevents messy commits, accidental work on the main branch, exposed secrets, and unsafe changes to shared history.

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/new1direction/korgex/using-git
Any agent
npx skills add New1Direction/korgex --skill using-git
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/New1Direction/korgex

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 269 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 $0.00018 $0.00269
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00134
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00054
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured yesterday against content hash ed4e07836af6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

using-git 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 yesterday.

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.

src/skills_builtin/using-git/SKILL.md · 27 lines

What it actually says

Treat git history as a record someone will read later. Commit and push only when the user asks; if you're on the default branch, branch first.

Committing

  1. Review what you're about to commit (git status, git diff --staged). Stage only related changes — one logical change per commit. Don't git add -A blindly.
  2. Write a message that says WHAT changed and WHY. First line ≤ ~72 chars, imperative ("Fix …", "Add …"); body for the why if non-obvious.
  3. Never commit secrets, large artifacts, or unrelated reformatting.

Branches & PRs 4. Don't commit straight to the default branch — create a focused branch. 5. Open a PR with a clear title and a body covering: what changed, why, how it was tested. Confirm with the user before pushing or opening it (it's outward-facing).

Safety 6. Never force-push a shared branch, hard-reset away uncommitted work, or rewrite published history without explicit confirmation. Prefer revert over reset for anything already pushed.

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. yesterday First seen · 27 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A ed4e07836af6

Subscribe to this mod's changes

using-git is a skill published in the GitHub repository New1Direction/korgex (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 269 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.