sweep-worktrees

sweep-worktrees is a skill for Claude Code from nirecom/agents. It costs 33 tokens per session (846 once invoked), scanned C, original, MIT.

A cleanup tool for abandoned Git worktrees and their branches. A Git worktree is an extra working folder connected to the same repository, and a zombie worktree is one that remains after normal cleanup failed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan for old linked worktrees, find untracked orphan folders, preview cleanup, and remove eligible worktrees and their branches.
Why use it?
It removes stale folders and branches that can clutter a repository or prevent new worktrees from being created. It can preview what would be removed before cleanup.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to scan for old linked worktrees, find untracked orphan folders, preview cleanup, and remove eligible worktrees and their branches.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirecom/agents/sweep-worktrees
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 nirecom/agents --skill sweep-worktrees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirecom/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 846 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00033 $0.00846
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00338
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00085

Measured 11d ago against content hash 9256c69ec073, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

sweep-worktrees scanned grade C with 1 finding 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

`git worktree remove` (if still registered) or `rm -rf` (if not registered
skills/sweep-worktrees/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Reclaims zombie linked worktrees left behind when /worktree-end could not physically remove a worktree (e.g. Windows CWD lock from VS Code's extension host). After successful worktree removal, also deletes the corresponding branch. Also scans WORKTREE_BASE_DIR for orphan directories not tracked by git's worktree registry.

Procedure

SWT-1. Resolve $AGENTS_MAIN_ROOT from the environment; abort with a clear error if unset. SWT-2. Invoke the sweeper script, forwarding the user's flags verbatim: bash "$AGENTS_MAIN_ROOT/bin/sweep-worktrees.sh" [--dry-run] [--force] [--min-age-hours N] [--ci-mode] SWT-3. Print the script's stdout verbatim. Do not summarize or filter.

Add no flags of your own.

Rules

  • Deletes by default; --dry-run must be explicit to preview only.
  • --force passes --force to git worktree remove, bypassing the dirty-tree check; PR-merged and freshness gates still apply.
  • EPERM / busy / not-empty failures on a per-worktree basis are non-fatal: warning printed, that worktree skipped, sweep continues.
  • Branch deletion (git branch -D) is authorized only AFTER the worktree is removed (git's cascade rule blocks branch deletion while the worktree is registered).
  • Detached HEAD worktrees are skipped with a warning (no branch ⇒ no PR merged check, no branch -D target).
  • A 4-AND safety check is required before any deletion: registered linked worktree AND PR merged AND clean working tree (bypassed by --force) AND mtime > threshold.
  • Orphan-directory scan uses a 4-AND gate: containment under WORKTREE_BASE_DIR AND no .git AND mtime > threshold AND ownership proof via Main repo: field in WORKTREE_NOTES.md. Basename match alone is NOT ownership proof — two unrelated repos can share agents/dotfiles basenames. The former "empty-or-notes-only" gate was removed: a partial git worktree remove can leave a full checkout without a .git file, which is safe to delete when ownership is proven.
  • Before each worktree and orphan-directory removal the sweeper releases that path's own CodeGraph index lock. No-op when the flag is off, when no index exists, or when the tool is absent; a daemon whose own argv does not name exactly this path is reported, never killed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 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 Changed 9256c69ec073
  2. 23d ago Changed · -2 lines 6be9966ce0d1
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +3 lines ea44586e0378
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 66 lines · 33 tokens per session scan C 6210bf857ba9

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sweep-worktrees is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirecom/agents (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 846 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.