git-shallow-clone

git-shallow-clone is a skill for Claude Code from opendatahub-io/ai-helpers. It costs 23 tokens per session (231 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A script for making a shallow clone of a Git repository, meaning a copy containing limited history rather than every past commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clone a repository at its current state or a chosen branch or tag into a temporary location for analysis.
Why use it?
It provides a temporary local copy for examining repository contents without relying on web APIs or downloading the full history.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the odh-git plugin — 6 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps clone a repository at its current state or a chosen branch or tag into a temporary location for analysis.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/opendatahub-io/ai-helpers/git-shallow-clone
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 opendatahub-io/ai-helpers --skill git-shallow-clone
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/opendatahub-io/ai-helpers

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install odh-git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 6 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 231 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 $0.00023 $0.00231
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00115
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00023

Measured 10d ago against content hash 49294560da70, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

git-shallow-clone 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/shallow-clone.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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

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

$ rm -rf <path_to_temporary_directory>
plugins/odh-git/skills/git-shallow-clone/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Shallow Clone

Provides a script for creating a shallow clone of a Git repository to a temporary location. This skill should be used to analyze repository contents locally instead of using web APIs.

Usage

Use the scripts/shallow-clone.sh script in this directory, for example:

./scripts/shallow-clone.sh <repository_url> [<tag_or_branch>]

The script will print the path to the cloned repository when done, for example:

$ ./scripts/shallow-clone.sh https://github.com/psf/requests.git
Cloning https://github.com/psf/requests.git (shallow, ref: HEAD) to /tmp/shallow-clone-DDqkuv...
/tmp/shallow-clone-DDqkuv/repo

After analyzing the local repository, clean up the temporary directory with:

$ rm -rf <path_to_temporary_directory>
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. 10d ago First seen · 33 lines · 23 tokens per session scan C 49294560da70

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-shallow-clone is a skill published in the GitHub repository opendatahub-io/ai-helpers (37 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 231 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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