gitignore-maintenance
95 / 100 · Low risk
Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.
Simplify and reconcile a repository's Git ignore policy against the active system-wide core.excludesFile. Use when a repo .gitignore is bloated or redundant, applying personal global ignore rules, verifying backup and agent-tool exclusions, finding tracked files that now match ignore rules, untracking ignored backups/caches/runtime state/generated agent projections with git rm --cached while preserving local copies, or committing and pushing a gitignore parity cleanup. Do NOT use for broken ref…
What this skill can do
Runs commands on your computer
Install
Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.
if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'gitignore-maintenance' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'gitignore-maintenance' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named gitignore-maintenance already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/delorenj/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'ff2132360c4a12602f752a491f896043cb60584a' -- 'gitignore-maintenance' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'gitignore-maintenance' ~/.agents/skills/'gitignore-maintenance' && rm -rf "$d"; fi
Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'gitignore-maintenance' ~/.claude/skills/'gitignore-maintenance' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.
Badge for your README
[](https://zalavijaysinh.github.io/skilltrust/repos/delorenj/skills/)
Score history
| Date | Version | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-11-09 | ff21323 | 95 |
| 2026-11-07 | f5cafc3 | 95 |