flow.merge

A workflow command that finishes a development phase by closing its records, creating a pull request, and merging the work into the main code branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a feature phase has passed verification and is ready to be merged. It can also create a pull request without merging it.
Why use it?
It removes the need to handle phase bookkeeping, commits, pull requests, branch changes, and merge checks separately.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup/flow.merge
Any agent
npx skills add billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup --skill flow.merge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,925 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00014 $0.03925
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01962
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00785
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00392

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9e10020a541f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

flow.merge scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 2d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

rm -rf .specify/archive/${PHASE_NUMBER}-*/
skills/flow.merge/SKILL.md · 524 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 524 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

User Input

$ARGUMENTS

Arguments:

  • Empty: Close phase, push, create PR, merge, cleanup (default)
  • --pr-only: Create PR but don't merge (for review workflow)

Note: Use specflow directly, NOT npx specflow. It's a local CLI at ~/.claude/specflow-system/bin/.

Prerequisites

Requirement Check Command If Missing
Verification passed specflow status --jsonstep.status == complete Run /flow.verify
On feature branch git branch --show-current (not main) Switch to phase branch
GitHub CLI installed gh --version Install with brew install gh
Git remote configured git remote -v Set up git remote
No merge conflicts git merge-base main HEAD Rebase on main first

Goal

Complete the current phase:

  1. Close the phase (update ROADMAP, archive, reset state)
  2. Commit the phase closure changes
  3. Push and merge to main
  4. Switch to main with clean state

Execution

0. Create Todo List

Create todo list immediately (use TodoWrite):

  1. [MERGE] PREFLIGHT - Verify branch and uncommitted changes
  2. [MERGE] VERIFY_GATE - Confirm verification passed
  3. [MERGE] CLOSE - Close phase via CLI
  4. [MERGE] COMMIT - Commit phase closure
  5. [MERGE] PUSH - Push and create PR
  6. [MERGE] MERGE - Merge PR to main
  7. [MERGE] MEMORY - Integrate archive into memory
  8. [MERGE] DONE - Report completion

Set [MERGE] PREFLIGHT to in_progress.

1. Pre-flight Checks

Verify on feature branch:

CURRENT_BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)
if [[ "$CURRENT_BRANCH" == "main" || "$CURRENT_BRANCH" == "master" ]]; then
  echo "ERROR: Cannot merge from main branch"
  echo "Switch to a feature branch first"
  exit 1
fi

Read the full file on GitHub · 524 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. 2d ago First seen · 524 lines · 14 tokens per session scan C 9e10020a541f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

flow.merge is a skill published in the GitHub repository billbuchanan-code/claude-code-power-setup (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 3,925 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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