cleanup-branches

cleanup-branches is a command for Claude Code from joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins. It costs 11 tokens per session (320 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A branch-cleanup command that deletes branches already merged into a chosen base branch and identifies old unmerged branches. A base branch is the branch used as the comparison or merge target, often main.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to preview or remove merged branches and flag branches that have been inactive for a chosen period.
Why use it?
It keeps local and optionally remote Git repositories tidy without automatically deleting work that has not been merged.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to preview or remove merged branches and flag branches that have been inactive for a chosen period.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins/cleanup-branches
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 320 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00011 $0.00320
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.00128
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00064
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00032

Measured today against content hash ba9b16d837ad, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cleanup-branches scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured today.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/git/commands/cleanup-branches.md · 40 lines

What it actually says

Cleanup Branches

Delete local (and optionally remote) branches that are merged into the base branch, and flag stale unmerged branches for manual review.

Usage

/cleanup-branches [options]

Options

  • --base <branch> - Base branch for merge check (default: main)
  • --threshold <months> - Inactivity threshold in months for stale detection (default: 3)
  • --remote - Also delete merged remote branches from origin
  • --dry-run - Preview what would be deleted without acting

Examples

/cleanup-branches                                # Delete local merged, flag stale
/cleanup-branches --remote                       # Include remote branch deletion
/cleanup-branches --base develop --threshold 1   # Custom base and threshold
/cleanup-branches --dry-run                      # Preview only, no deletions
/cleanup-branches --remote --dry-run             # Preview including remote

Implementation

Invoke the Skill tool with skill name "git:cleaning-up-branches" and arguments: $ARGUMENTS

The skill will delete merged branches (with user confirmation), flag stale unmerged branches, and produce a cleanup summary. It never deletes unmerged branches automatically.

For detailed documentation, see git/skills/cleaning-up-branches/SKILL.md.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. today First seen · 40 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A ba9b16d837ad

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cleanup-branches is a command published in the GitHub repository joaquimscosta/arkhe-claude-plugins (21 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 320 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-10-16.