worktree-stale-local-main-ref-inflates-pr-diff SKILL.md skillA
worktree-stale-local-main-ref-inflates-pr-diff from wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/worktree-stale-local-main-ref-inflates-pr-diff@v1.2.0Pins v1.2.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control
- Path
plugins/agent-traffic-control/skills/worktree-stale-local-main-ref-inflates-pr-diff/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.2.0, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 8, 2026
- Size
- 9,596 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Stop a false "my PR is reverting/touching dozens of upstream files" alarm when `git diff main...<branch>` reports far more files than your commit changed, in a multi-worktree repo. Use when: (1) you're in a worktree at `<repo>/.claude/worktrees/<X>/` (or any `git worktree`), (2) `git diff main...HEAD` (3-dot) or `--stat` shows tens/hundreds of files + thousands of lines but your actual commit (`git show --stat HEAD`) touched only a handful, (3) you're about to panic about the…
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Worktree: a stale local `main` ref inflates `git diff main...branch` ## Problem In a multi-worktree repo, `git diff main...<your-branch>` (or `--stat`) reports **far more files and lines than your commit actually changed** — e.g. 92 files / 8,000+ insertions when your one commit touched 6 files. The instinct is to panic that your PR is silently reverting or re-touching a pile of upstream work (the `stale-base-pr-silently-reverts-upstream-content` trap) and to block your own merge or demand a rebase. Almost always, nothing is wrong with the PR — the **local `main` ref is stale**. ## Context / Trigger Conditions All of: - You're working inside a git worktree (`git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree`; path contains `.claude/worktrees/<name>/` or `git worktree list` shows 2+ paths). - `git diff main...HEAD --stat` (3-dot) shows tens/hundreds of files, but `git show --stat HEAD` (your actual commit) shows only a few. - You branched off what you *thought* was current `main`, and `gh pr view <N>` reports the PR as `mergeable: MERGEABLE / mergeStateStatus: CLEAN`. Why it happens: `main...branch` (3-dot) diffs from the **merge-base** of the two …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/worktree-stale-local-main-ref-inflates-pr-diff@sha256:2fa875911896caeeThe line at the top of this page pins the label v1.2.0, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_aarfeuaywccrizpu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 33 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.2.0 latest | 2026-08-10 | ff2caaa | 9,596 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.1.0 | 2026-07-08 | 7f737d2 | 8,308 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9596 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_aarfeuaywccrizpu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/worktree-stale-local-main-ref-inflates-pr-diff GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2fa875911896caee3da1682994b1cbc3e517a4439f4660001695cc213c33cc20
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