prune

A Git branch-cleanup tool. Git branches are separate lines of development, and a stale branch is one that is old or no longer needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find branches already merged into the main branch, identify branches inactive for a chosen number of days, and optionally remove stale branches from a remote repository.
Why use it?
It helps reduce clutter without deleting branches blindly. It previews merged or stale branches and asks for confirmation before cleanup.

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/drn/dots/prune
Any agent
npx skills add drn/dots --skill prune
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 31 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 552 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 $0.00031 $0.00552
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00276
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00110
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00055

Measured 2d ago against content hash e3d706ccf674, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prune 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/prune.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

agents/skills/prune/SKILL.md · 78 lines

What it actually says

Branch Cleanup

Delete merged and stale local branches safely, with preview and confirmation.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS - Optional: --stale-days <N> to override the 30-day stale threshold, --remote to also delete remote branches

Context

  • Current branch: !git branch --show-current
  • Remote: !git remote 2>/dev/null | head -5

Instructions

Resolve the script path — use the first that exists:

  1. ~/.claude/skills/prune/scripts/prune.sh (deployed via symlink)
  2. agents/skills/prune/scripts/prune.sh (repo-relative, for development/workspaces)

Step 1: Preview branches

Run the preview command, forwarding any --stale-days argument:

bash <script-path> preview [--stale-days N]

Handle the exit code:

  • Exit 0 — Present the output as a formatted table (see format below). Proceed to Step 2.
  • Exit 3 — Tell the user: "All branches are current — nothing to prune." and stop.
  • Exit 1 — Report the error from stderr.

Format the preview output as:

## Branch Cleanup Preview

### Merged (safe to delete)
| Branch | Last Commit | Merged Into |
|--------|------------|-------------|
| <branch> | <date> | <default> |

### Stale (no commits in N days)
| Branch | Last Commit |
|--------|------------|
| <branch> | <date> |

### Skipped
| Branch | Reason |
|--------|--------|
| <branch> | <reason> |

Step 2: Confirm and delete

Ask the user which branches to delete. Accept "all", specific branch names, or "none".

For confirmed branches, run the delete command:

bash <script-path> delete [--remote] <branch1> [branch2 ...]

Include --remote only if the user passed it in $ARGUMENTS.

Handle the exit code:

  • Exit 0 — Show the output block verbatim as your final response.
  • Exit 1 — Report the error from stderr.
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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 · 78 lines · 31 tokens per session scan A e3d706ccf674

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prune is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 31 tokens to every session and 552 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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