Work On

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Git worktrees

Example prompts

• “/work-on”

Requirements

• A Bash shell
• Compatibility (from SKILL.md): Requires the `bd`, `wt` and `herdr` CLIs, plus the `wt-switch-create` skill; the session rename additionally needs the `UserPromptSubmit` hook from the README

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

1. 1no argument means stop
2. 2load the bead (this is also the validity check)
3. 3rename the herdr tab to the bead id
4. 4create the worktree and enter it
5. 5report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 1f51f83. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Ships 2 files in scripts/ (Shell), which the agent can run.

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

• Compatibility

  Requires the `bd`, `wt` and `herdr` CLIs, plus the `wt-switch-create` skill; the session rename additionally needs the `UserPromptSubmit` hook from the README

  From compatibility in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

Context cost

Work On loads about 1k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 29 tokens; SKILL.md has 499 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~29

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~1k

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); the scripts in this folder are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from goern/forgejo-mcp at commit 1f51f83, republished under its GPL-3.0-or-later licence (© goern). 499 words, ~1,045 tokens.

name

work-on

description

Start focused work on a bead — rename the tab and the Claude session, create the worktree, and load the issue

compatibility

Requires the `bd`, `wt` and `herdr` CLIs, plus the `wt-switch-create` skill; the session rename additionally needs the `UserPromptSubmit` hook from the README

argument-hint

<bead-id>

license

GPL-3.0-or-later

/work-on <bead-id>

Sets up a focused work session for one bead:
  1. bd show <bead-id>              — validate the id and load it into context
  2. herdr tab rename               — THIS session's tab label becomes the bead id
  2b. session title queued          — the Claude session takes the same name
  3. /wt-switch-create <bead-id>    — worktree + branch named after the bead,
                                      session cwd moves into it

Example: /work-on myrepo-5jwr
Find work with: bd ready

bd show $ARGUMENTS

scripts/herdr-rename-tab.sh "$ARGUMENTS"

scripts/session-title.sh queue "$ARGUMENTS"

Skill(skill: "wt-switch-create", args: "$ARGUMENTS")

© goern, GPL-3.0-or-later. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

SKILL.md and 2 other files (scripts) in .agents/skills/work-on of goern/forgejo-mcp.

• SKILL.md
• scripts/herdr-rename-tab.sh
• scripts/session-title.sh

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 1f51f83