Dd SDK Ios:git Branch Agent Skill
Use when creating a new branch in dd-sdk-ios for a JIRA ticket or feature. Use when choosing a branch name or base branch for development work.
Install
one command, takes just this skill from the repositorynpx skills add https://github.com/DataDog/dd-sdk-ios --skill dd-sdk-ios:git-branchThe instruction itself
4 sections, as written by the authorBranching in dd-sdk-ios
Convention
Branch names follow: <author>/<JIRA-TICKET>/<descriptive-slug>
<author>: your GitHub username or initials<JIRA-TICKET>: project shortname + ticket number (e.g.RUM-9999,FFL-123)<descriptive-slug>: short kebab-case description
Examples from the repo:
maxep/RUM-14622/visionos-integration-testbplasovska/RUM-14563/lowercase-header-keyskelvin/RUM-13420/cache-ddtags
Branch Model
The repo follows git-flow: master is production, develop is the integration branch.
For a single PR, branch from develop:
git checkout -b <author>/<JIRA-TICKET>/<slug> develop
For large contributions split across multiple PRs, create a shared feature branch first, then branch each PR from it:
git checkout -b feature/<feature-slug> develop # shared target branch
git checkout -b <author>/<JIRA-TICKET>/<slug> feature/<feature-slug> # per-PR branch
Each per-PR branch targets feature/<feature-slug>. Only the final feature branch is merged into develop.
No JIRA Ticket?
For chores or external contributions without a ticket, use a descriptive slug only:
git checkout -b <author>/<slug> develop
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How to use it
Take datadog/dd-sdk-ios:git-branch from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal
use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.
The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the
same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.