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Sidecar — Git skill for Claude Code

Git community

Spawn a read-only sidecar subagent to investigate something in this checkout without editing files, moving branches, or touching GitHub.

How to install Sidecar

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/mvanhorn-agent-native-sidecar.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mvanhorn/agent-native/HEAD/.claude/commands/sidecar.md -o ~/.claude/commands/mvanhorn-agent-native-sidecar.md

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

What Sidecar does

description: Spawn a read-only sidecar subagent to investigate something in this checkout without editing files, moving branches, or touching GitHub. argument-hint: [investigation task, e.g. "check PR #1660 for regressions in the retry path"]

Spawn one subagent via the Agent tool (`general-purpose`, model `sonnet`) to investigate the task below. This is bounded research, not a task that needs the orchestrator's own model — do not investigate inline yourself and do not run this on a stro

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