ia-git-worktree SKILL.md skillA

ia-git-worktree from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-git-worktree@git:20261025.36ee591

Pins git:20261025.36ee591 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
iliaal/whetstone
Path
plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-git-worktree/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
12
Latest version
git:20261025.36ee591, committed Oct 25, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 29, 2026
Size
9,266 bytes
Repository stars
35
License
MIT

Manage Git worktrees for isolated parallel development. Use when creating, listing, switching, or cleaning up git worktrees, or when needing isolated branches for concurrent reviews or feature work.

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

# Git worktree manager

**GATE: If the task runs inside an existing worktree (a worktree path is given and no create/remove/switch is requested), none of the creation flow applies: work in place and skip this skill.** To check: `git rev-parse --show-toplevel` appears as a linked entry in `git worktree list`.

## Working rules

- Preserve other sessions' branches, files, and staged work (see Ownership).
- Verify dependencies resolve first-party code from the intended worktree.
- Keep merge, push, and cleanup within user authorization; report the exact exercised checkout and resulting commit.

## Always use the manager script

Never call `git worktree add` directly; always use the `worktree-manager.sh` script.

The manager handles setup:
1. Copies `.env`, `.env.local`, `.env.test`, etc. from the main checkout, only when the base is the default branch or a local branch that already contains the fetched commit (a branch that exists only on `origin` gets none); it never overwrites or follows an existing file or symlink in the new tree
2. Ensures `.worktrees` is in the main checkout's `.gitignore`
3. Creates consistent directory structure
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-git-worktree@sha256:77b2c21faf27c01b

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.36ee591, 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.

Badge

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3 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 12 versions of this file, between Aug 29, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 5 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20261025.36ee591 latest2026-10-25 36ee591 9,266 BA view · diff
git:20261011.6d60d2e2026-10-11 6d60d2e 9,273 BA view · diff
git:20261003.eaa3dc62026-10-03 eaa3dc6 9,182 BA view · diff
git:20260926.c89983b2026-09-26 c89983b 9,010 BA view · diff
git:20260923.1fe69082026-09-23 1fe6908 9,014 BA view · diff
git:20260917.e9d876a2026-09-17 e9d876a 9,053 BA view · diff
git:20260907.7e92de02026-09-07 7e92de0 8,996 BA view · diff
git:20260907.228ec832026-09-07 228ec83 7,864 BA view · diff
git:20260906.35b18c42026-09-06 35b18c4 11,074 BA view · diff
git:20260906.5eab8612026-09-06 5eab861 8,585 BA view · diff
git:20260829.ebb47302026-08-29 ebb4730 8,507 BA view · diff
git:20260829.7a804662026-08-29 7a80466 8,490 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9266 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

GitHub

iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_xk4lloybdahni2v2
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/ia-git-worktree
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/77b2c21faf27c01bc989f6200bd30f4d839ee7c3d00849e5ac26a42230d08900

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