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Git Safety Net

Git forensics skill that recovers lost commits, branches and stashes, proves merges by content, and retires leftovers only after verified backups.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 1,323⑂ 212AI score 9/10Last updated: Aug 8, 2026

What it does

  • Recover (Mode A): walks the git reflog → git fsck --dangling ladder to find vanished commits, branches and stashes and restores them onto a fresh rescue/ branch (never a reset onto live work).
  • Audit & preserve (Mode B): scans the whole machine for every checkout of the repo — including independent clones that git worktree list can never see — then audits each one for unpushed commits, dirty worktrees, stashes and dangling objects. Pins refs, exports patches, and plain-copies untracked files that bundles/archives physically cannot reach.
  • Verify merged (Mode C): ignores misleading "173 commits ahead" counts and runs an in-memory git merge-tree trial merge for a sound MERGED / UNMERGED verdict, biased toward safety.
  • Prevent (Mode D): commit-then-switch instead of stashes or second clones, push WIP branches early, use checkout-independent commands like git branch -f in shared trees.
  • Retire safely (Mode E): evidence ladder (git cherry, superset file comparison, symbol probe) before deleting worktrees, stashes, branches or clones — with a guard that aborts rm -rf if a backup file is missing.

All five bundled scripts are read-only or additive: they never checkout, reset, push, stash drop, branch -d, or gc.

Who it's for

  • Developers who have panicked after a rebase, squash-merge or reset --hard
  • Anyone sitting on a pile of stale branches, stashes and worktrees they're afraid to delete
  • Teams running parallel sessions or agents against a shared working tree
  • Leads who must prove "nothing was lost" before converging everything onto one main branch

Examples

  1. "I reset --hard and my commit is gone" → locate the old HEAD in reflog, confirm with git show, recover via git switch -c rescue/feature <sha>.
  2. "Can I delete this old clone directory?" → discover all checkouts, copy untracked files out, write uncommitted.diff and a verified bundle, and only then rm -rf behind a backup-exists gate.
  3. "Are all these branches merged?" → per-branch content verdict from git merge-tree; anything unprovable is kept and listed for review instead of deleted.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/daymade/claude-code-skills/HEAD/git-safety-net/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.

↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
↓ Download ZIP
Install in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on AI Skill Mart.
Copy the git-safety-net folder from the GitHub repo daymade/claude-code-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/git-safety-net/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git /tmp/claude-code-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/claude-code-skills/git-safety-net ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal and clone the repository into a temp folder: git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git /tmp/claude-code-skills
  2. Create the skills directory if needed: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  3. Copy just this skill: cp -r /tmp/claude-code-skills/git-safety-net ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Make the helper scripts executable: chmod +x ~/.claude/skills/git-safety-net/scripts/*.sh
  5. Restart Claude Code, cd into the Git repository you want checked, and say something like "did I lose any work?" or "is it safe to delete this branch/clone?" to trigger the skill.
  6. Start with the read-only Mode B audit; only approve Mode E's destructive steps after you personally read the backup-verification output.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT