branch

branch is a skill for Claude Code from zjshen14/opencli. It costs 32 tokens per session (263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A git workflow for creating or switching to a feature or bug-fix branch, optionally linked to a GitHub issue. Git is a tool for tracking code changes, while a branch is a separate line of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when starting work on a feature, fixing a bug, linking work to an issue, or checking the current branch.
Why use it?
It standardises branch names and reduces the chance of working on the wrong branch.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it when starting work on a feature, fixing a bug, linking work to an issue, or checking the current branch.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/zjshen14/opencli/branch
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 zjshen14/opencli --skill branch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zjshen14/opencli

Made for: Claude Code.

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 branch

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zjshen14/opencli/branch/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/zjshen14/opencli/branch)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zjshen14/opencli/branch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zjshen14/opencli/branch/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 branch

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/zjshen14/opencli/branch"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/zjshen14/opencli/branch.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 263 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 $0.00032 $0.00263
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00105
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00026

Measured 1mo ago against content hash baae24eedce4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch 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.

src/skills/builtin/branch/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

Manage git branches for this repository.

Current branch state: !{git branch -a 2>/dev/null | head -20 || echo "(not a git repo)"}

Open issues (for branch naming): !{gh issue list --limit 10 --json number,title,state 2>/dev/null || echo "(gh CLI not available)"}

Task: $ARGUMENTS


Branch naming convention:

  • Feature: feature/<issue-number>-<short-slug> (e.g. feature/42-add-gh-skills)
  • Bug fix: fix/<issue-number>-<short-slug> (e.g. fix/17-loop-on-empty-response)
  • No issue: feature/<short-slug> or fix/<short-slug>

Steps:

  1. Determine the branch name from the task description or issue number
  2. Create and switch: git checkout -b feature/42-add-gh-skills
  3. Confirm: git branch --show-current

If the branch already exists, switch to it: git checkout <branch-name>

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 · 30 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A baae24eedce4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

branch is a skill published in the GitHub repository zjshen14/opencli (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 263 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.