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Git Best Practices

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0xbigboss·vlatest·backend·Apache-2.0

Helps with Git, best practices as part of developing backend services and APIs workflows.

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Showing Claude Code. One command installs this skill into any of the agents below.

  1. 1

    Run this in your project

    terminal
    $ npx skills add alleneubank/claude-code --skill git-best-practices -a claude-code

  2. Uses the open-source skills CLI and needs Node.js. Add -g to install it for your user instead of this project.

What we know about this skill

Publisher

0xbigboss

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Install target

Live repository

Not pinned. Installing fetches whatever the repository holds at the time you run the command.

No human has reviewed this code. The checks below are a static scan of the files at one commit — nobody has run this skill or judged whether it works. A skill runs with whatever access you give your agent, so read the source before you install it.

Automated safety checks

scanned

This skill passed all 6 checks. We read its files at one commit and looked for the things that make a skill dangerous to run — not for whether it works.

  • Declares what it does: passed

    SKILL.md parses and declares a name and a description.

    SKILL.md exists, its frontmatter parses, and it declares a name and a description.

  • No undeclared network calls: passed

    Makes no network calls.

    Every host the skill dials — from its scripts, its config endpoints or the commands it tells the agent to run — is either well-known package and API infrastructure or declared in its own frontmatter. Links in documentation are not counted.

  • No obfuscated payloads: passed

    No encoded or obfuscated payloads.

    No base64, hex or compressed blob is decoded and then executed, and no encoded shell commands.

  • No credential access: passed

    Reads no keys, tokens, keychains or credential files.

    Neither the code nor the SKILL.md instructions read SSH keys, cloud credentials, keychains, token stores, browser cookie databases or dotfiles that hold secrets.

  • No pipe-to-shell installers: passed

    No pipe-to-shell or download-and-run installers.

    No `curl … | sh` pattern, in the code or in the instructions, that runs code fetched at run time.

  • Pinned to a commit: passed

    Scanned 0xbigboss/claude-code at 2921eb8a68.

    The exact upstream commit SHA that was scanned is recorded, so the result refers to specific bytes.

Commit
2921eb8a68
Manifest
.claude/skills/git-best-practices/SKILL.md
Scanned
2 files, 255 lines
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About this skill

What it does

This skill guides an AI agent through Git workflows with a focus on best practices for backend service and API development. It enforces rules around commit formatting (Conventional Commits), staging changes, and pushing updates to protect shared history. The skill also supports the creation of "WIP" checkpoint commits during long-running tasks and provides guidance on crafting clean, narrative-driven commit histories before opening pull requests.

When to use it

  • When developing backend services or APIs where consistent Git practices are crucial.
  • During complex development tasks requiring temporary checkpoints (WIP commits).
  • Before branching, merging, or opening pull requests to ensure adherence to repository conventions.
  • To enforce standardized commit message formatting and improve code review processes.

Key capabilities

  • Branch Discovery: Identifies default, current, and optionally production branch names.
  • Conventional Commits: Enforces a specific commit format: type(scope): description.
  • Explicit Staging: Requires files to be added by name using git add path/to/file.
  • Safe Force Pushing: Uses --force-with-lease for force pushes and requires user confirmation.
  • WIP Checkpoint Commits: Allows creation of temporary commits during long tasks, cleaned up before PRs.
  • Commit Message Guidelines: Provides rules and examples for subject lines and commit bodies.

Example prompts

  • "Discover the default branch in this repository."
  • "Stage these files: src/auth.ts and src/auth.test.ts."
  • "Create a conventional commit with type 'feat' for updating user authentication."

Tips & gotchas

  • The skill enforces strict rules regarding commit formatting and staging, so be prepared to follow the guidelines.
  • User confirmation is required before any force push operations are performed.
  • Review the git-examples.md file (referenced in the source) for detailed examples of conventional commit messages.