kortix-ai

Checkout Branch — Git skill for Claude Code

Git community

Switch to an existing branch by checking out its worktree, or creating one if needed.

How to install Checkout Branch

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/kortix-ai-kortix-ace-checkout-branch.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kortix-ai/kortix-ace/HEAD/.claude/commands/checkout-branch.md -o ~/.claude/commands/kortix-ai-kortix-ace-checkout-branch.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Checkout Branch does

Switch to an existing branch by checking out its worktree, or creating one if needed.

**Arguments:** $ARGUMENTS should be the branch name (full or partial match)

**Examples:**

/checkout-branch feature/john/add-caching → switch to branch (create worktree if needed)
/checkout-branch add-caching → partial match, resolve to full branch name
/checkout-branch fix → if multiple matches, list them and ask to be specific

**Steps:**

Parse branch name from arguments
Fetch latest from r

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