git-branchless

git-branchless is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 45 tokens per session (2,012 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

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the odin-git plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for branchless Git repositories where developers need to edit, reorder, restack, or publish a stack of commits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/git-branchless
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 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-git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 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/github.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/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for git-branchless

Your own site · 80×15
<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="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,012 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 3 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 79
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 50
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 51
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00045 $0.02012
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00805
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00402
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00201

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 7ee0c3103d0d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

plugins/odin-git/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-gated: previews the target and consequence before publishing, any remote bulk mutation, or any irreversible history change; otherwise reversible local: writes only local git-branchless commits, moves, and restacks; rollback is version control. 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.

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. 1mo ago Changed · -13 tokens per session 7ee0c3103d0d
  2. 1mo ago 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 (37 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 2,012 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-04.

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