configure-git-repository

configure-git-repository is a skill for Claude Code from pjt222/agent-almanac. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,815 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide to setting up a Git repository, which records changes to a project's files. It covers ignored files, branches, commit message rules, hooks, and remote repositories for R, Node.js, and Python projects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to initialize Git, create a language-specific .gitignore, choose a branch strategy, add commit hooks, and connect the project to a remote repository.
Why use it?
It gives a new project a consistent version history and keeps generated or sensitive files out of commits.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the agent-almanac plugin — 122 skills, 76 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to initialize Git, create a language-specific .gitignore, choose a branch strategy, add commit hooks, and connect the project to a remote repository.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pjt222/agent-almanac/configure-git-repository
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 pjt222/agent-almanac --skill configure-git-repository
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pjt222/agent-almanac

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agent-almanac, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 122 skills, 76 agents.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,815 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 Privilege Escalation · line 105
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 128
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
  • high Privilege Escalation · line 106
    Code accesses credential files (SSH keys, AWS credentials, etc.). This could indicate credential theft attempts.
    Fix: Remove references to credential paths. Use environment variables or secrets managers. For docs, use placeholder paths (e.g., /path/to/config). Never load .env or token files in production code paths.
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 $0.00078 $0.01815
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00907
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00363
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00181

Measured 7d ago against content hash b98e23b0fe3d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

configure-git-repository 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 7d 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.

i18n/caveman-lite/skills/configure-git-repository/SKILL.md · 275 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 275 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Configure Git Repository

Set up a Git repository with appropriate configuration for the project type.

When to Use

  • Initializing version control for a new project
  • Adding .gitignore for a specific language/framework
  • Setting up branch protection and conventions
  • Configuring commit hooks

Inputs

  • Required: Project directory
  • Required: Project type (R package, Node.js, Python, general)
  • Optional: Remote repository URL
  • Optional: Branch strategy (trunk-based, Git Flow)
  • Optional: Commit message convention

Procedure

Step 1: Initialize Repository

cd /path/to/project
git init
git branch -M main

Got: .git/ directory created. Default branch is named main.

If fail: If git init fails, ensure Git is installed (git --version). If the directory already has a .git/, the repository is already initialized — skip this step.

Step 2: Create .gitignore

R Package:

# R artifacts
.Rhistory
.RData
.Rproj.user/
*.Rproj

# Environment (sensitive)
.Renviron

# renv library (machine-specific)
renv/library/
renv/staging/
renv/cache/

# Build artifacts
*.tar.gz
src/*.o
src/*.so
src/*.dll

# Documentation build
docs/
inst/doc/

# IDE
.vscode/
.idea/

# OS
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db

Node.js/TypeScript:

node_modules/
dist/
build/
.next/
.env
.env.local
.env.*.local
*.log
npm-debug.log*
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db
.vscode/
.idea/
coverage/

Python:

__pycache__/
*.py[cod]
*.egg-info/
dist/
build/
.eggs/
.venv/
venv/
.env
*.log
.mypy_cache/
.pytest_cache/
htmlcov/
.coverage
.DS_Store
.idea/
.vscode/

Got: .gitignore file created with entries appropriate for the project type. Sensitive files (.Renviron, .env) and generated artifacts are excluded.

If fail: If unsure which entries to include, use gitignore.io or GitHub's .gitignore templates as a starting point and customize for the project.

Step 3: Create Initial Commit

git add .gitignore
git add .  # Review what's being added first with git status
git commit -m "Initial project setup"

Read the full file on GitHub · 275 lines

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. 7d ago First seen · 275 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A b98e23b0fe3d

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configure-git-repository is a skill published in the GitHub repository pjt222/agent-almanac (32 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,815 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-09-03.

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