git-hygiene

git-hygiene is a skill for Claude Code from Zate/cc-plugins. It costs 29 tokens per session (1,162 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for organizing Git branches, commits, pull requests, and merges within the devloop workflow. It can link planned tasks to either separate commits or one combined commit.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to choose branch names, follow conventional commit messages, decide between separate or combined commits, and prepare pull requests from completed work.
Why use it?
It helps keep changes easy to review and avoids committing unfinished or broken work. It also makes the steps from a task plan to a merged change more consistent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: when-to-use in frontmatter.

Part of the devloop plugin — 19 skills, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to choose branch names, follow conventional commit messages, decide between separate or combined commits, and prepare pull requests from completed work.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zate/cc-plugins/git-hygiene
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 Zate/cc-plugins --skill git-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Zate/cc-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devloop, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills, 6 agents.

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 git-hygiene

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zate/cc-plugins/git-hygiene/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zate/cc-plugins/git-hygiene)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zate/cc-plugins/git-hygiene"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zate/cc-plugins/git-hygiene/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for git-hygiene

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zate/cc-plugins/git-hygiene"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zate/cc-plugins/git-hygiene.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,162 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 $0.00029 $0.01162
Opus 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00465
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00232
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00116

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1441481e4492, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-hygiene 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 1mo 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.

plugins/devloop/skills/git-hygiene/SKILL.md · 160 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 160 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Hygiene

Branching, commit, and merge practices wired to the devloop workflow.

Devloop Integration

Configure git behavior in .devloop/local.md:

---
git:
  auto-branch: true           # Create branch when plan starts
  branch-pattern: "feat/{slug}"
  pr-on-complete: ask         # ask | always | never

commits:
  style: conventional         # conventional | simple
---

Related commands:

  • /devloop:ship — commit with plan context, create PR
  • /devloop:pr-feedback — integrate PR review comments into plan.md

Plan tasks map to commits. /devloop:ship offers:

  • Single commit — squash all completed tasks into one.
  • Atomic commits — one commit per task, using the task description as the message subject.

Plan task example:

- [x] Task 1.1: Create config skill
- [x] Task 1.2: Add parsing script
- [x] Task 1.3: Update session hook

Atomic equivalent:

feat(devloop): create local-config skill
feat(devloop): add config parsing script
feat(devloop): update session-start hook

Commit Principles

  1. One logical change per commit — a reviewer should understand the diff in isolation.
  2. Commit compiles and tests pass — never check in broken WIP on a shared branch.
  3. Message explains "why", not "what" — the diff already shows what.

Size guidelines

Size Lines When
XS <50 Single fix, config change
S 50–200 One feature, one refactor
M 200–500 Feature with tests
L >500 Consider splitting

Devloop tasks typically land in the S–M range.

Split strategy for large changes

Rather than one mega-commit:

  1. Refactor / preparation commit
  2. Core implementation commit
  3. Tests commit
  4. Docs commit

Or, inside devloop: one commit per phase.

Anti-patterns

  • WIP commits with broken code on shared branches
  • Mixing refactor + feature + fix in one commit
  • "fix everything" catch-all commits
  • Unrelated changes bundled

Conventional Commits

Read the full file on GitHub · 160 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. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 1441481e4492

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git-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository Zate/cc-plugins (10 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 1,162 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.