finishing-a-development-branch

finishing-a-development-branch is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from drvoss/everything-copilot-cli. It costs 50 tokens per session (2,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A handoff process for a completed development branch whose implementation and tests are finished. It checks the workspace, presents choices such as merging or opening a pull request, and carries out the selected cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after tests pass to merge locally, leave the branch for later, open a pull request, or discard the finished branch.
Why use it?
It resolves the branch instead of leaving uncertainty about what happens after coding ends. It also accounts for whether the work is in a normal checkout or a separate worktree.

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/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli/finishing-a-development-branch
Any agent
npx skills add drvoss/everything-copilot-cli --skill finishing-a-development-branch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drvoss/everything-copilot-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,113 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 $0.00050 $0.02113
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.01056
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00423
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00211

Measured yesterday against content hash e760ab56fb4b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finishing-a-development-branch 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 yesterday.

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/workflow/finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finishing a Development Branch

commit-workflow gets changes into commits, release ships a version, and github-pr-workflow manages PRs that already exist. None of them answer the question that comes right after implementation finishes: what happens to this branch now? This skill closes that gap.

Core principle: Verify tests → detect environment → present options → execute the choice → clean up.

When to Use

  • Implementation on a feature/fix branch is complete and its own tests pass
  • You need to decide between merging locally, opening a PR, leaving the branch for later, or discarding it — and the workspace (worktree vs. normal checkout) affects how cleanup should work
  • A subagent-driven-development-style task loop (see fleet-parallel §5-A) just finished its final whole-branch review and needs a clean handoff

When NOT to Use

Instead of finishing-a-development-branch Use
You need conventional commit messages while still working commit-workflow
The branch is already merged and you are cutting a version release
You need PR-lifecycle operations (labels, review requests, merge) once a PR exists github-pr-workflow
You just need to create or remove a worktree, independent of a merge decision using-git-worktrees

Workflow

1. Verify tests pass

npm test  # or the project's actual test command

If tests fail, stop here. Report the failures and do not proceed to any option below — a failing branch has nothing to finish yet.

2. Detect the workspace environment

$gitDir = git rev-parse --git-dir
$gitCommon = git rev-parse --git-common-dir
State Menu Cleanup behavior
$gitDir == $gitCommon Standard 4 options (below) No worktree involved
$gitDir != $gitCommon, named branch (a worktree) Standard 4 options Worktree removed only for Merge/Discard, per Step 4
$gitDir != $gitCommon, detached HEAD Reduced 3 options (no local merge) Externally managed — do not remove

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 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. yesterday First seen · 203 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A e760ab56fb4b

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finishing-a-development-branch is a skill published in the GitHub repository drvoss/everything-copilot-cli (45 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 2,113 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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