worktree-manager

worktree-manager is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 35 tokens per session (3,653 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A manager for Git worktrees in the alpha-forge repository. A worktree is a separate working folder connected to the same Git repository, so several branches can be used at once.

In plain words
What is it for?
Create worktrees from new descriptions, remote branches, or existing local branches, including parallel feature work.
Why use it?
It avoids repeatedly setting up branch folders and keeps branch names and worktree handling consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the devops-tools plugin — 24 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit Create worktrees from new descriptions, remote branches, or existing local branches, including…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/worktree-manager
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill worktree-manager
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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 worktree-manager

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/worktree-manager.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/worktree-manager)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/worktree-manager"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/terrylica/cc-skills/worktree-manager.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,653 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00035 $0.03653
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.01826
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00731
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00365

Measured yesterday against content hash fb81a40d8646, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

worktree-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 yesterday.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/cleanup-worktree.sh, scripts/create-worktree.sh, scripts/detect-stale.sh), 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.

plugins/devops-tools/skills/worktree-manager/SKILL.md · 470 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 470 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Alpha-Forge Worktree Manager

Create and manage git worktrees for the alpha-forge repository with automatic branch naming, consistent conventions, and lifecycle management.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • Creating a new worktree for alpha-forge development
  • Setting up a worktree from a remote branch
  • Using an existing local branch in a new worktree
  • Managing multiple parallel feature branches

Operational Modes

This skill supports three distinct modes based on user input:

Mode User Input Example Action
New Branch "create worktree for sharpe validation" Derive slug, create branch + worktree
Remote Track "create worktree from origin/feat/existing" Track remote branch in new worktree
Local Branch "create worktree for feat/2025-12-15-my-feat" Use existing branch in new worktree

Mode 1: New Branch from Description (Primary)

This is the most common workflow. User provides a natural language description, Claude derives the slug.

Step 1: Parse Description and Derive Slug

Claude derives kebab-case slugs following these rules:

Word Economy Rule:

  • Each word in slug MUST convey unique meaning
  • Remove filler words: the, a, an, for, with, and, to, from, in, on, of, by
  • Avoid redundancy (e.g., "database" after "ClickHouse")
  • Limit to 3-5 words maximum

Conversion Steps:

  1. Parse description from user input
  2. Convert to lowercase
  3. Apply word economy (remove filler words)
  4. Replace spaces with hyphens

Read the full file on GitHub · 470 lines

Files

What ships with it

5 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. yesterday First seen · 470 lines · 35 tokens per session scan A fb81a40d8646

Subscribe to this mod's changes

worktree-manager is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (62 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 3,653 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.

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