Skills finishing-a-development-branch
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finishing-a-development-branch

Content revision r2 Safe โš™๏ธ External commands๐Ÿ“ Filesystem access

Finish Development Branches Safely

Completed branches often lack a clear integration and cleanup process. This skill verifies tests and guides users through merge, pull request, preservation, or discard workflows.

Supports: Claude Codex Code(CC)
๐Ÿฅ‰ 78 Bronze

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Agent request
Review the Skillstore skill "finishing-a-development-branch" from https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-finishing-a-development-branch.md and its manifest at https://skillstore.io/api/skills/sickn33-finishing-a-development-branch/manifest. Verify the artifact. You may proceed after verification, subject to the environment's own policy.

Your Agent should still show its plan and request any confirmation required by the security policy.

Test it

Using "finishing-a-development-branch". Finish this tested feature branch.

Expected outcome:

  • Tests passed.
  • The branch appears to use main as its base.
  • Choose local merge, pull request, keep as-is, or discard.

Using "finishing-a-development-branch". Keep the branch for later.

Expected outcome:

The branch remains unchanged, and its worktree is preserved at the current path.

Using "finishing-a-development-branch". Discard this branch.

Expected outcome:

The skill lists the branch, commits, and worktree, then waits for the exact discard confirmation before deletion.

Security Audit

Safe
v5 โ€ข 7/23/2026 Open versioned report

All 24 static findings are false positives. Most detections are Markdown code-fence delimiters, while the shell substitutions compose fixed text or query local Git state without reevaluating output as shell code. Standard error redirection to /dev/null is benign, and destructive cleanup requires an explicit workflow choice and typed confirmation.

1
Files scanned
212
Lines analyzed
0
Review items
0
False positives ignored
No confirmed security findings were detected by the latest completed static and semantic audit. This does not prove the skill has no side effects.
Audited by: codex View Audit History โ†’
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APA citation

sickn33. (2026). finishing-a-development-branch security audit report (audit version 5) [Author version unspecified]. Skillstore. https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-finishing-a-development-branch/audits/5

BibTeX citation

@techreport{sickn33-sickn33-finishing-a-development-branch-2026, author = {sickn33}, title = {finishing-a-development-branch security audit report (audit version 5)}, institution = {Skillstore}, year = {2026}, number = {5}, url = {https://skillstore.io/skills/sickn33-finishing-a-development-branch/audits/5}, note = {Author version unspecified} }

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8 installable variants

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Why this variant is first

Higher Skillstore usage
ZhanlinCui Recommended

zhanlincui-finishing-a-development-branch

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 15
Updated

2026-08-21

sickn33 Current

sickn33-finishing-a-development-branch

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 9
Updated

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Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 8
Updated

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Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 7
Updated

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cycleaddict-finishing-a-development-branch

Skillstore Score 78
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 6
Updated

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obra-finishing-a-development-branch

Skillstore Score 71
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 8
Updated

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dyai2025-finishing-a-development-branch

Skillstore Score 69
Evidence Confidence High
Skillstore usage 8
Updated

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Skillstore Score 38
Evidence Confidence Medium
Skillstore usage 7
Updated

2026-08-21

Skillstore Score

Why this score Evidence Confidence: High
55
Architecture
85
Maintainability
87
Content
69
Community
83
Spec Compliance

What You Can Build

Complete a Feature Branch

Verify a completed feature, choose an integration path, and clean local resources when appropriate.

Prepare a Reviewed Pull Request

Push tested work and create a pull request with a concise summary and test plan.

Close Automated Development Work

Give an AI coding workflow explicit approval points before merging, preserving, or deleting work.

Try These Prompts

Finish My Branch
Finish my current development branch. Verify tests first, identify the base branch, then present the available completion options.
Create a Pull Request
Verify this branch, push it, and create a pull request with a summary and test plan. Ask before any cleanup.
Merge Locally
Confirm the base branch, run tests, merge this feature locally, and test the merged result. Remove the feature branch only after success.
Audit and Complete Branch Work
Inspect branch and worktree state, verify tests, and present all four completion choices. Require exact confirmation before deleting any branch or worktree.

Best Practices

  • Start with a clean worktree and a known base branch.
  • Run tests before choosing a workflow and after a local merge.
  • Review branch names, commits, and paths before confirming cleanup.

Avoid

  • Do not continue when the test suite fails.
  • Do not delete a branch or worktree without exact user confirmation.
  • Do not force-push or change remote history without an explicit request.

Frequently Asked Questions

When should I use this skill?
Use it after implementation is complete and you need to integrate, preserve, or discard a tested branch.
What happens when tests fail?
The workflow stops, reports the failures, and does not offer merge or pull request actions.
Can it create a pull request?
Yes. It can push the branch and use GitHub CLI to create a pull request with a test plan.
Does it delete work automatically?
No. Discarding work requires the user to type an exact confirmation before branch or worktree deletion.
Does it support Git worktrees?
Yes. It preserves or removes a worktree according to the selected completion option.
Can it resolve merge conflicts?
No. Conflict resolution remains a separate task that requires repository-specific review and testing.

Developer Details

Author

sickn33

License

MIT

Skillstore revision

r2

Version notice

The author did not declare a version.

Ref

88a8e9a07f4c54ab105c1c41b6267c287146b07b

Maintenance freshness

7/26/2026

Usage

7 downloads ยท 114 views

File structure

๐Ÿ“„ SKILL.md

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