A workflow for renaming a GitHub repository, its local project folder, and its Git connection.

Use it to review and apply a repository rename, update the origin URL, and change selected old-name references without altering unrelated repositories or records.

Renaming can leave outdated paths in project files and coding-agent conversation records. This workflow previews those changes and preserves relevant Codex CLI and Claude Code continuity references.

repo-rename — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by PaulRBerg

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 PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill repo-rename

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 904 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan B 1 finding. 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: 1 finding, 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 Agent Snooping · line 21
Skill reads from agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). These directories may contain API keys, personal settings, and other credentials that the skill has no legitimate need to access.

Fix: Remove all code or instructions that access agent configuration directories (.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/). If configuration values are needed, pass them explicitly as parameters or environment variabl

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00032	$0.00904
Opus 5	$0.00016	$0.00452
Sonnet 5	$0.00006	$0.00181
Haiku 4.5	$0.00003	$0.00090

Measured 13d ago against content hash d3f6fb385139, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

repo-rename scanned grade B 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 13d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/repo-rename.py), 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

`~/.codex/config.toml` only when the repository has an active Claude Code or Codex transcript; this continuity update

skills/repo-rename/SKILL.md · 75 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 75 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repo Rename

If these instructions are already present in the conversation from a slash or dollar invocation, follow them directly; do not invoke this skill again through a skill tool.

Preview the complete GitHub, Git, filesystem, and agent-continuity mutation set before applying a repository rename.

Scope

Rename the current GitHub repository, matching local folder, and origin URL.
Update literal old paths in ~/.claude/projects, ~/claude/projects when present, ~/.codex/sessions, and ~/.codex/config.toml only when the repository has an active Claude Code or Codex transcript; this continuity update does not apply to repos with no active transcripts.
Update constrained literal old-name references inside the repository, excluding VCS, dependencies, and generated build directories.
Do not modify other transcript stores, archives, remotes, or repositories.

Workflow

Check whether the repository has any active AI chat transcript before treating continuity preservation as in scope:
- Claude Code: resolve ${CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR:-~/.claude}/projects/<absolute-repo-path-with-/-replaced-by--> and check it exists and is non-empty.
- Codex: resolve ${CODEX_HOME:-~/.codex}/sessions and check whether any session file references the exact absolute repo path.
- If neither exists, state that the transcript-continuity update does not apply; the rename may still proceed for the GitHub, git, filesystem, and repository-content changes below.
Resolve the skill directory and run the helper from the repository to produce a read-only preview:
```
uv run <skill-dir>/scripts/repo-rename.py <new-name> --dry-run
```
The helper requires a clean worktree, matching GitHub repo/folder names, a free target path, and valid GitHub context. It prints the old/new repo and paths, exact confirmation token, external commands, directory moves, every replacement file, occurrence counts, and rollback coverage.
If --dry-run was requested, return the preview and stop. A successful dry run must not change the GitHub repo, remote, folder, config, transcripts, or repository files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 75 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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.

13d ago First seen · 75 lines · 32 tokens per session scan B d3f6fb385139

Subscribe to this mod's changes

repo-rename is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 904 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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