Git worktrees

Skill jagreehal/jagreehal-claude-skills/skills/git-worktrees

Isolates feature work in a dedicated git worktree with directory selection, gitignore checks, setup, and baseline tests. Use this skill when starting isolated feature work, before multi-task plans, parallel branches, or discardable experiments. Do not use when/for finishing and merging work (use branch-completion) or dispatching parallel agents without a worktree need (use parallel-agent-dispatch).From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add jagreehal/jagreehal-claude-skills --skill git-worktrees

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One thing to look at

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SKILL.md

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Git Worktrees

Critical rules

Prefer the bundled script over hand-rolled commands.
Project-local worktree dirs must be git-ignored before use.
Run baseline tests before starting work; ask before proceeding on failure.
Directory priority: existing .worktrees/ > worktrees/ > CLAUDE.md > ask. Never guess.
Always report the worktree path when ready.
Before manual flows or directory edge cases, read references/directory-and-setup.md.

Workflow

Prefer: scripts/create-worktree.sh <branch-name> [base-dir] (from this skill). Exit 2 = not ignored; exit 3 = baseline tests failed.
If the script cannot run or you must deviate: follow directory priority, gitignore check, create branch worktree, project setup, baseline tests (see reference).
Report location and baseline status; only then implement.
Cleanup via git worktree remove (or branch-completion for land/discard options).

Resources

scripts/create-worktree.sh — deterministic create + setup + baseline. Run when creating a worktree; use --help for usage and exit codes.
references/directory-and-setup.md — directory priority, gitignore, manual steps, cleanup. Read when not using the script or on edge cases.

Validation

Directory chosen by priority order
Project-local dir git-ignored
Setup ran; baseline tests pass (or failures reported and approved)
Worktree path reported

Constraints

Skip for trivial one-line fixes on the current branch.
Related: design-exploration, implementation-planning, parallel-agent-dispatch, branch-completion.