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keeping-git-repos-clean
Prevents, detects, and remediates files that should never be committed — secrets (.env, API tokens, hardcoded credentials) and dev artifacts (build output, scratch databases, editor/OS files). Covers .gitignore (and why it does not untrack), git rm --cached, auditing tracked files, history scrubbing, and credential rotation. Use when a repo has committed secrets or junk, when setting up a new repo's ignore rules, or when reviewing what a repo actually tracks.
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 2,017 stars are split between them (about 202 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 71/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 11a70aa680c0, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.SKILL.md:155
A scan lists patterns in the code. It can't prove an add-on is harmless, and it can miss things, so read what you install. How we scan
Alternatives
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onekeeping-git-repos-clean kajisho5/ffmpeg-skill · Skill | 71 | ★ 2.0k | ≈122 always | 18d ago |
| clean-backend AllanOps/Clean-Backend · Skill Same job: databases | 58 | ★ 9 | ≈63 always | 20d ago |
| clean-commits Archive228/loopkit · Skill Both about clean | 58 | ★ 755 | ≈28 always | 4mo ago |
| clean-architecture ciembor/agent-rules-books · Skill Same job: databases | 69 | ★ 3.1k | ≈40 always | 2mo ago |
| clean-audio hassancs91/claude-youtube-editor · Skill Both about clean and repo | 61 | ★ 339 | ≈153 always | 3mo ago |
| code-clean termio-sh/termio · Skill Both about clean and repo | 61 | ★ 550 | ≈105 always | 16d ago |