git-branchless

git-branchless is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension. It costs 131 tokens per session (1,828 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of git-branchless, Apache-2.0.

A guide for using Git Branchless, a Git workflow that treats commits as checkpoints and uses detached work by default. It covers moving commits, syncing with the main branch, editing commit stacks, and recovering earlier states.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when planning or executing stacked commits, rebasing, updating work from the main branch, reorganizing commit history, or undoing branchless operations.
Why use it?
It provides consistent commands for multi-commit work and makes history changes easier to recover from. It first checks whether Git Branchless is configured for the repository.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when planning or executing stacked commits, rebasing, updating work from…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension/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-gemini-cli-extension --skill git-branchless
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 131 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,828 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 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00131 $0.01828
Opus 5 $0.00066 $0.00914
Sonnet 5 $0.00026 $0.00366
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00183

Measured 6d ago against content hash 4721acdd7e87, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, 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 6d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to git-branchless — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/git-branchless/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git-branchless

Branchless treats commits as checkpoints, detached HEAD as the default work mode, and branches as publishing artifacts. This skill enforces that mental model and routes every common git workflow to its branchless equivalent. Reference docs:

  • references/commands.md — every command, flag, revset, config key.
  • references/recipes.md — concrete sequences + decision rubric.
  • references/recovery.md — undo, restack, hide, snapshot, GC semantics.

Pre-flight gate [LOAD-BEARING]

Before applying any rule below, confirm branchless is initialized for the current repository. Run:

test -d "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)/branchless" && git config --get branchless.core.mainBranch

(Resolving the git-common-dir handles linked worktrees, where .git is a file rather than a directory and branchless state lives in the main repo's git dir.)

Result Skill behavior
Both succeed Skill is active. Apply the rules below. Acknowledge with one line: git-branchless active — main=<value>.
Either 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.

The inert path is intentional. This skill does not nag and does not refuse legitimate work in repos where branchless was never adopted.


Always / Never (operation-class framing)

Each rule names an operation class, not a command. Plain-git commands are fine when they fall outside the class.

Class Always Never
Stack edits (reorder, fixup, squash, split) git move, git move -F, git reword, and git split where available [v0.11.0+] (use the Recipe 4 workaround on older versions). git rebase -i to drive stack edits.
Base updates (rebase a stack onto fresh main) git sync --pull (or git move -b 'stack()' -d origin/main). Read the skip summary. git pull --rebase against a stack.
Undoing committed history git undo -i. git reset --hard <SHA> against any commit you have already made.
Discarding local work in progress git hide -r <tip> (recoverable). git branch -D or git reset --hard purely to wipe.
Branch creation for ephemeral work Detached HEAD until publish; commit immediately, branch later. git checkout -b feature/X before the first commit exists.
Publishing Branch the tip then git push -u, or git submit -c on supported forges. Force-push as a way to "fix" your local history.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 6d ago First seen · 141 lines · 131 tokens per session scan A 4721acdd7e87

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git-branchless is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 131 tokens to every session and 1,828 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to git-branchless, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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