What is git-branch-manager?

A guide for creating, switching, listing, and cleaning up Git branches using consistent names. Git branches are separate lines of development that let teams work on changes without modifying the main code line immediately.

Use it to create feature, bug-fix, hotfix, release, or experiment branches; inspect branch history; and identify merged or stale branches for safe removal.

Branch work can become confusing when names are inconsistent, the wrong starting point is used, or uncommitted work is put at risk. This adds checks and safer cleanup practices.

git-branch-manager — Skill for Claude Code and Codex by sourav15mukher

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 sourav15mukherjee/skillforge-free-skills --skill git-branch-manager

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sourav15mukherjee/skillforge-free-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 54 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 471 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 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	$0.00054	$0.00471
Opus 5	$0.00027	$0.00235
Sonnet 5	$0.00011	$0.00094
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00047

Measured 11d ago against content hash d38f7105b3bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-branch-manager 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 11d 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.

git-branch-manager/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Git Branch Manager

Create, manage, and clean up git branches with smart naming and safety checks.

Workflow

Creating Branches

Determine the branch type from user intent:
- New feature → feature/
- Bug fix → bugfix/ or fix/
- Hotfix → hotfix/
- Release → release/
- Experiment → experiment/
Generate the branch name:
- Use kebab-case: feature/add-oauth-login
- Include ticket number if mentioned: feature/PROJ-123-add-oauth
- Keep concise but descriptive
Ensure clean state before creating:
```
git status --porcelain
```
If there are uncommitted changes, warn the user and suggest stashing.
Create from the right base:
- Features → from main or develop
- Hotfixes → from main
- Fetch latest first: git fetch origin

Listing Branches

Show branches with useful context:

git branch -a --sort=-committerdate --format='%(refname:short) %(committerdate:relative) %(subject)'

Cleaning Up

Find merged branches: git branch --merged main
Find stale branches (no commits in 30+ days)
Show what would be deleted BEFORE deleting
Never delete main, master, develop, or the current branch
Use -d (safe delete) not -D (force delete)

Rules

Always fetch before creating branches
Never force-delete branches without user confirmation
Warn if branching from a non-default base
Check for uncommitted changes before switching
Show branch age and merge status when listing

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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.

README.md 642 B

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.

11d ago First seen · 63 lines · 54 tokens per session scan A d38f7105b3bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git-branch-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository sourav15mukherjee/skillforge-free-skills (5 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 54 tokens to every session and 471 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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