branch-cleanup

branch-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code from berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices. It costs 16 tokens per session (203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Git cleanup tool that lists local and remote branches that are stale or already merged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review merged local branches, branches whose remote tracking references are gone, and merged remote branches, then delete approved local candidates.
Why use it?
It helps you identify branches that may no longer be needed before removing them, while requiring confirmation for deletion.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review merged local branches, branches whose remote tracking references are gone, and merged remote branches, then delete approved local candidates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/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 berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices --skill branch-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices

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.

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 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 203 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 $0.00016 $0.00203
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00102
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00041
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00020

Measured 10d ago against content hash 103353acaa6b, 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 10d 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.

skills/branch-cleanup/SKILL.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Branch Cleanup

  1. Show current state:
git branch -vv
git branch --merged main 2>/dev/null || git branch --merged master
  1. List candidates for deletion:
  • Local branches merged into main/master
  • Local branches with gone remote tracking refs
  • Remote branches merged into main (requires confirmation)
  1. Show the list to the user with what would be deleted. Ask for confirmation before deleting anything.

  2. On confirmation:

# Delete merged local branches (never delete main/master/develop/staging)
git branch --merged main | grep -vE '^\*|main|master|develop|staging' | xargs -r git branch -d
  1. Report what was deleted and what was skipped.
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. 10d ago First seen · 31 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 103353acaa6b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

branch-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 203 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 2026-08-31.