branches

branches is a command for Claude Code from rjwalters/kicad-tools. It costs 24 tokens per session (4,352 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reviews local Git branches and worktrees for stale or abandoned development copies. A worktree is another checked-out directory linked to the same Git repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inventory branches and worktrees, find merged or unused ones, and optionally remove confirmed-safe branches with the pruning option.
Why use it?
It helps identify branches that may be safe to remove while protecting the default branch, active worktrees, and branches used by open pull requests.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md.

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rjwalters/kicad-tools/branches
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjwalters/kicad-tools

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 24 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 4,352 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00024 $0.04352
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.02176
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00870
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00435

Measured 6d ago against content hash ddacd6fa5a5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d ago.

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.

.claude/commands/repo/branches.md · 368 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 368 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/repo:branches — Branch & Worktree Hygiene

Find stale local branches and worktrees that can be safely removed. Reports findings and waits for confirmation before deleting anything.

Usage

/repo:branches                   # Full audit
/repo:branches --prune           # Delete confirmed-safe branches after reporting

Steps

1. Inventory

Gather current state:

# Default branch
git symbolic-ref --short refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed 's|origin/||'

# Count local branches
git branch --list | wc -l

# List worktrees
git worktree list

# Identify active worktree branches (these are PROTECTED)
git worktree list --porcelain | grep '^branch ' | sed 's|branch refs/heads/||'

2. Categorize branches

For every local branch, classify it into one of these buckets:

PROTECTED (never delete)
  • The default branch (main/master) and the currently checked-out branch
  • Any branch currently checked out by a worktree
  • Any branch with an open PR: gh api "repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls?state=open&head={owner}:<branch>" --jq length
  • Long-lived branches the repo's own docs (CLAUDE.md, CONTRIBUTING.md) name as release/project branches — if such a list exists, honor it
MERGED PR BRANCHES
  • Branches matching common PR patterns: feature/*, fix/*, feat/*, pr-*
  • Check whether a PR exists for the branch's head and is merged (the REST form below) — a count >= 1 means the branch is safe to delete
  • Also safe: any branch fully merged into the default branch (git branch --merged <default>). Reachability is sufficient but not necessary — a squash-merged branch is never --merged, so its absence from that list means nothing. Step 5 decides.
gh api "repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls?state=all&head={owner}:<branch>" \
  --jq '[.[] | select(.merged_at != null)] | length'

REST's pulls endpoint has no state=merged value — only open, closed, and all — so merged-ness is a client-side filter on .merged_at != null over state=all. An older closed-but-unmerged PR on the same head is correctly excluded by it. Step 5b arm 4 runs the same call for the final verdict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 368 lines

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. 6d ago First seen · 368 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A ddacd6fa5a5e

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branches is a command published in the GitHub repository rjwalters/kicad-tools (55 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 4,352 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.