setup-gitignore

setup-gitignore is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,932 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for creating or repairing a repository’s .gitignore file. This file tells Git which generated or local files should not appear as untracked changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when setting up Git ignore rules or when untracked generated files keep appearing.
Why use it?
It stops unwanted files from repeatedly showing up in Git status and keeps ignore rules consistent when the workflow is run again.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; built for aider.

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

Good fit Use it when setting up Git ignore rules or when untracked generated files keep appearing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/setup-gitignore
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 setup-gitignore
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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,932 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00040 $0.01932
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00773
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00386
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00193

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 500ad8e10778, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

setup-gitignore 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.

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

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/setup-gitignore/SKILL.md · 116 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 116 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Setup gitignore

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger set up gitignore / fix gitignore / untracked files keep appearing
Authority Reversible local: writes only the repository .gitignore; rollback is the pre-merge snapshot or version control. No remote mutation. Never read or write a global excludes file.
Side effect Writes or edits .gitignore; never ~/.gitignore, ~/.config/git/ignore, or git config --global.
Done .gitignore has stable section anchors, composing it again with the same inputs produces identical bytes, and before/after untracked counts are reported.

Inputs

No required user input. Operate on the current Git repository.

Optional input is a set of empirical ignore patterns explicitly confirmed by the user after reviewing current untracked-path clusters. Never infer confirmation and never add an empirical pattern silently.

Procedure

  1. Locate the repository. Run git rev-parse --show-toplevel, change the working directory used by this procedure to that exact root, and stop with not-a-repository if it fails. Do not inspect global Git ignore configuration. Done when: the repository root is confirmed or not-a-repository is reported.

  2. Detect template keys at depth two. Enumerate regular files at repository-relative depth 0, 1, or 2, excluding .git/. Apply every matching row, deduplicate keys, and sort keys lexicographically before joining them with commas: Done when: the sorted key list is produced (possibly empty).

    Evidence filename gitignore.io key(s)
    tsconfig.json, tsconfig.*.json node,typescript
    package.json node
    pyproject.toml, requirements.txt, setup.py, setup.cfg, Pipfile python
    Cargo.toml rust
    go.mod go
    dune-project, dune, *.opam ocaml
    pom.xml, build.gradle, build.gradle.kts java
    settings.gradle.kts with Kotlin source files java,kotlin
    CMakeLists.txt cmake,c++
    Gemfile, *.gemspec ruby
    composer.json php

Read the full file on GitHub · 116 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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 · -18 tokens per session 500ad8e10778
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 116 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 410e623054ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

setup-gitignore is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (38 stars, last pushed 24d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,932 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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