Using Git Worktrees

Using Git Worktrees is a skill for Claude Code from obra/clank. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,329 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A workflow for using Git worktrees, which let you check out multiple branches in separate folders from one repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Setting up separate working folders for parallel branch work and selecting suitable directories for them.
Why use it?
It keeps changes on different branches isolated and includes checks intended to make choosing and creating the worktree safer.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Good fit Setting up separate working folders for parallel branch work and selecting suitable directories for them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/obra/clank/using-git-worktrees
View source ↗ obra/clank
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 obra/clank --skill using-git-worktrees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/obra/clank

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,329 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 unknown 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 $0.00017 $0.01329
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00532
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00266
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00133

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 510499059722, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Using Git Worktrees 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 2mo 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.

skills/collaboration/using-git-worktrees/SKILL.md · 216 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 216 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A 510499059722

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Using Git Worktrees is a skill published in the GitHub repository obra/clank (43 stars, last pushed 1y ago), with no licence file. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,329 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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