sync

sync is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from slamb2k/mad-skills. It costs 99 tokens per session (2,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A repository synchronization skill that updates a local Git worktree with the latest changes from the origin/main branch. A worktree is a separate local checkout of a repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before new work, after a pull request, or whenever the local repository needs to match origin/main.
Why use it?
It gathers upstream changes while preserving uncommitted work and removes stale local branches, so development starts from a current copy.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the mad-skills plugin — 20 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/sync
Any agent
npx skills add slamb2k/mad-skills --skill sync
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slamb2k/mad-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install mad-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 20 skills, 3 agents, 2 hooks.

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 sync

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/sync.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/sync)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/sync"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/slamb2k/mad-skills/sync.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,021 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00099 $0.02021
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01010
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00202

Measured 5d ago against content hash 01483faa3d04, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sync 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/sync-cleanup.test.js, scripts/sync.sh, scripts/sync.test.js), 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.

skills/sync/SKILL.md · 202 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 202 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sync - Repository Synchronization

When this skill is invoked, IMMEDIATELY output the banner below before doing anything else. Pick ONE tagline at random — vary your choice each time. CRITICAL: Reproduce the banner EXACTLY character-for-character, including the diagonal / glyph before the name.

{tagline}

       /$$ /$$$$$$  /$$     /$$ /$$   /$$  /$$$$$$ 
      /$$//$$__  $$|  $$   /$$/| $$$ | $$ /$$__  $$
     /$$/| $$  \__/ \  $$ /$$/ | $$$$| $$| $$  \__/
    /$$/ |  $$$$$$   \  $$$$/  | $$ $$ $$| $$      
   /$$/   \____  $$   \  $$/   | $$  $$$$| $$      
  /$$/    /$$  \ $$    | $$    | $$\  $$$| $$    $$
 /$$/    |  $$$$$$/    | $$    | $$ \  $$|  $$$$$$/
|__/      \______/     |__/    |__/  \__/ \______/ 

Taglines:

  • 🎯 Pulling the latest moves...
  • 🚂 All aboard the sync train!
  • 🤝 Getting everyone on the same page!
  • 📡 Fetching the latest plot twists!
  • 🥷 Time to steal everyone else's code!
  • ☕ Catching up on what you missed!
  • 🔁 Rebase, merge, rinse, repeat!
  • 🎬 Previously on main...

Output Formatting

After the banner, display parsed input:

┌─ Input ────────────────────────────────────────
│  {Field}:  {value}
│  Flags:    {parsed flags or "none"}
└────────────────────────────────────────────────

Pre-flight results:

── Pre-flight ───────────────────────────────────
  ✅ {dep}           {version or "found"}
  ⚠️ {dep}           not found → {fallback detail}
  ❌ {dep}           missing → stopping
──────────────────────────────────────────────────

Stage/phase headers: ━━ {N} · {Name} ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Status icons: ✅ done · ❌ failed · ⚠️ degraded · ⏳ working · ⏭️ skipped


Synchronize local repository with the remote default branch using a deterministic bash script — no LLM subagent needed since all steps are pure git commands.

Flags

Parse optional flags from the request:

  • --no-stash: Don't auto-stash uncommitted changes
  • --no-cleanup: Don't delete stale local branches
  • --no-rebase: Use merge instead of rebase when on a feature branch

Read the full file on GitHub · 202 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. 5d ago First seen · 202 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 01483faa3d04

Subscribe to this mod's changes

sync is a skill published in the GitHub repository slamb2k/mad-skills (5 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 2,021 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.

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