git-branchless

git-branchless is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,002 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for editing multiple related Git commits, including rebasing, fixups, and stacked pull requests. Git is the version-control system used to track code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for branchless Git repositories where developers need to edit, reorder, restack, or publish a stack of commits.
Why use it?
It helps manage dependent changes while adding a review step before publishing changes remotely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the odin-code-advanced plugin — 50 skills shipped together

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/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/git-branchless
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill git-branchless
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-code-advanced, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 50 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for git-branchless

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/git-branchless.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/git-branchless)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/git-branchless"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/git-branchless.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,002 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 $0.00058 $0.02002
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01001
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00400
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00200

Measured yesterday against content hash fe7ecab5c908, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-branchless 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.

plugins/odin-code-advanced/skills/git-branchless/SKILL.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

git-branchless

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger Multi-commit work, stack edits, rebases, fixups, stacked-PR publishing, or mention of branchless, smartlog, git move, or git undo.
Authority Human-only. Preview the target and consequence before publishing, remote bulk mutation, or any irreversible history change. Never rebase -i, reset --hard, or force flags.
Side effect Local git-branchless commits, moves, and restacks; publish paths submit or push remote stack state. Silently inert when branchless is absent.
Done Branchless idioms applied per the decision rubric with a publish gate, or an explicit not-initialized inert line.

Not for

  • Plain-git workflows in repos without branchless; the skill stays inert and yields to plain git.
  • Interactive rebase (rebase -i), reset --hard, or force flags; never use these.
  • Suggesting git branchless init unless the user explicitly asks how to enable.

Inputs

  • A git repository (required).
  • branchless initialization state (detected by the pre-flight gate, not supplied).
  • The target commits or stack tip (required for edits and restacks).
  • The publish target (required only for publish; main versus feature is decided by the publish gate).

Procedure

  1. Run the pre-flight gate to confirm branchless is initialized for the current repository, resolving the git-common-dir so linked worktrees are handled:

    test -d "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/branchless" && git config --get branchless.core.mainBranch
    
    • Both checks succeed: skill is active. Acknowledge with one line: git-branchless active: main=<value>.
    • Either check fails: skill is silently inert. Emit one line: git-branchless not initialized; skill inactive. Yield to plain git. Do not suggest git branchless init unless the user explicitly asks how to enable. Stop.

    Done when: branchless initialization is confirmed or the inert line is emitted.

  2. Classify the requested work into one operation class and apply its Always rule. Plain-git commands are fine when they fall outside the class.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files 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. yesterday First seen · 101 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A fe7ecab5c908

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-branchless is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,002 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-04.

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