prune-branches

prune-branches is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dryvist/claude-code-plugins. It costs 48 tokens per session (1,479 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A cleanup workflow for removing local and remote Git branches and worktrees that no longer contain unique work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after syncing the repository to identify and delete merged or already-integrated branches and worktrees.
Why use it?
It reduces clutter while protecting the default branch, checked-out worktrees, and branches used by open pull requests.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the github-workflows plugin — 13 skills shipped together

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/dryvist/claude-code-plugins/prune-branches
Any agent
npx skills add dryvist/claude-code-plugins --skill prune-branches
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dryvist/claude-code-plugins

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install github-workflows, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 13 skills.

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Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,479 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 $0.00048 $0.01479
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00740
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00148

Measured 4d ago against content hash 458fee0b811d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prune-branches 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 4d 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.

github-workflows/skills/prune-branches/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prune Branches

Delete branches and worktrees carrying no unique, unmerged work: local, remote, or both.

State warning: Branch state, remote tracking, and PR status change between invocations. Re-run every git/gh command from the top on each run.

Protected

Skip these before computing staleness, on every pass below — each pass re-checks independently:

  • The default branch (main/master/develop) and any branch checked out in a worktree. Git enforces this for passes 1–2 via branch -d/-D; pass 3 deletes a different ref, so check explicitly there too.
  • Any branch an open PR references as --head or --base--base catches a stacked PR's target.

Build the open-PR reference set once, at the top of the run, not per branch:

gh pr list --state open --json number,headRefName,baseRefName --limit 200

Union headRefName and baseRefName into one set; test membership against it in every pass below instead of a per-branch gh pr list call.

Stale

A branch clears Protected and meets either:

  • Zero commits ahead of the default branchgit merge-base --is-ancestor <ref> origin/<default> (equivalent to git log origin/<default>..<ref> --oneline returning nothing). Ignores [gone] status — the ancestor check, not [gone], is the real "merged" signal. Run the default-branch guard first: origin/main is routinely an ancestor of origin/develop on a git-flow repo.
  • A merged PR (most recent by mergedAt) whose headRefOid matches the branch tip — gh pr list --state merged --head <branch> --json number,headRefOid,mergedAt. Needed for squash-merges, where the branch's own commits are never literal ancestors of the default branch.

Passes

Three passes, one per ref shape:

  1. Worktree-paired branchesgit worktree list (skip bare repo entries). If Stale: git worktree remove <path> — never --force; a dirty worktree blocks removal, report and skip. Then git branch -d <branch> (fall back to -D only when the merged-PR headRefOid matched the branch tip before removal — a squash-merged branch unreachable from local default).
  2. Bare local branches — local branches with no worktree (git for-each-ref refs/heads, excluding pass-1 branches). If Stale: git branch -d <branch> (same -D fallback as pass 1).
  3. Remote-only branches — remote branches with no local ref (git branch -r, excluding origin/HEAD and anything with a local counterpart). Check Stale against origin/<branch> directly; its only action is the remote delete below.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 4d ago First seen · 133 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 458fee0b811d

Subscribe to this mod's changes

prune-branches is a skill published in the GitHub repository dryvist/claude-code-plugins (3 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 1,479 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 2026-08-31.

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