branch-cleanup

branch-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code from basher83/lunar-claude. It costs 11 tokens per session (659 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for reviewing and tidying Git branches, which are separate lines of development in Git, on your computer and on shared servers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fetch current branch information, find merged or deleted-remote branches, and prepare safe cleanup actions.
Why use it?
It makes old, merged, or disconnected branches easier to identify while protecting important branches and branches with unpushed work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: context: fork in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter; positional $N argument.

Part of the git-workflow plugin — 5 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to fetch current branch information, find merged or deleted-remote branches, and prepare safe cleanup actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/basher83/lunar-claude/branch-cleanup
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.

Any agent
npx skills add basher83/lunar-claude --skill branch-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/basher83/lunar-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install git-workflow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills, 2 commands, 3 agents.

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.

agentmods badge for branch-cleanup

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for branch-cleanup

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 11 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 659 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00659
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00329
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00132
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00066

Measured 11d ago against content hash 66b3ef32081a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

branch-cleanup 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 11d 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.

plugins/devops/git-workflow/skills/branch-cleanup/SKILL.md · 94 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 94 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Perform a complete cleanup of local and remote branches after working on multiple PRs.

Current State

Default branch: !git symbolic-ref refs/remotes/origin/HEAD 2>/dev/null | sed 's@^refs/remotes/origin/@@' || echo "main"

Current branch: !git branch --show-current

Fetch latest: !git fetch --all --prune 2>&1

Branch Inventory

Local branches with tracking status:

!git branch --format='%(refname:short) %(upstream:track)' | sort

Recent branches by activity:

!git for-each-ref --count=15 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(refname:short) - %(committerdate:relative)'

Remote branches:

!git branch -r --format='%(refname:short)' | grep -v HEAD | sort

Cleanup Candidates

Merged into default branch: !git branch --merged

Branches with gone remotes:

!git branch -vv | grep ': gone]' | awk '{print $1}' | sort

Protected Branches

Never delete branches matching these patterns:

  • main, master, develop, staging, production
  • release/* branches (unless explicitly confirmed)
  • renovate/* branches (managed by Renovate bot)
  • Current working branch
  • Branches with unpushed commits (confirm first)

Cleanup Workflow

Phase 1: Analyze

Review the branch inventory above. Categorize branches:

  • Safe to delete: Merged branches and branches with gone remotes (excluding protected)
  • Needs confirmation: release/* branches, branches with unpushed commits
  • Protected: All protected branch patterns and current branch

Phase 2: Confirm Cleanup Plan

Present the cleanup plan and ask the user to select scope:

  • All safe: Delete all merged and gone-remote branches
  • Merged only: Delete only branches merged into default
  • Gone only: Delete only branches with deleted remotes
  • Review each: Confirm each branch individually

If "Review each" is selected, iterate through candidates asking per-branch confirmation.

Phase 3: Execute Cleanup

After confirmation, execute in order:

  1. Prune stale remote-tracking refs: git remote prune origin
  2. Delete merged local branches: git branch -d <branch>
  3. Delete gone-remote branches: git branch -D <branch>

Read the full file on GitHub · 94 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. 11d ago First seen · 94 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A 66b3ef32081a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

branch-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository basher83/lunar-claude (23 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 659 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.

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