git-branch-cleanup

git-branch-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fang2hou/skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (4,431 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety-focused cleanup tool for local Git branches and worktrees. A worktree is a separate local working folder connected to a Git branch.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after pull requests are merged or parallel agent sessions end to review and remove safely absorbed local branches and worktrees.
Why use it?
It identifies work that is already present elsewhere and asks for confirmation before removing anything, reducing the risk of deleting unfinished work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it after pull requests are merged or parallel agent sessions end to review and remove safely absorbed local branches and worktrees.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fang2hou/skills/git-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 fang2hou/skills --skill git-branch-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fang2hou/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,431 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 $0.00046 $0.04431
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.02216
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00886
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00443

Measured 8d ago against content hash b9083480e9e9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-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 8d 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/git-branch-cleanup/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Git Branch Cleanup

Remove local worktrees and branches whose changes are provably absorbed somewhere else — nothing else — and only after the user approves each group.

Two independent groups are produced, because their risk differs:

  • Group 1 — landed: the work is on the remote default branch. Deleting loses nothing; the remote holds it.
  • Group 2 — absorbed locally: the work is in the branch currently checked out in this worktree (the integration branch) but not yet on the remote default. Deleting loses nothing as long as that integration branch survives.

A branch in Group 1 or Group 2 is a candidate. Every other branch is non-deletable here and is only reported.

When to Use

  • After merging pull requests, especially squash merges.
  • After a fan-out agent session that left worktree/* or feature branches and worktree directories behind (e.g. herdr-managed worktrees), including ones already merged into the integration branch the agent is standing on.
  • The user asks to clean up branches or worktrees, delete merged branches, or list what is safe to remove.

When NOT to Use

  • Deleting remote branches — out of scope; remotes are read-only here.
  • Cleaning stashes, tags, or reflog entries.
  • Any repository where the user has not confirmed the deletion list.
  • Forcing removal of a dirty, locked, or unreadable worktree — always reported, never forced.

Inputs

Input Required Format Example
Remote name No (default origin) git remote name upstream
Integration branch No (default current HEAD) local branch feature/integration
Dry run No (flag in user request) request phrasing user asks to only show a plan

Hard Rules

  1. Never delete before the user confirms the exact list. Group 1 and Group 2 are confirmed separately; approving one never implies the other. No batch shortcuts, no "obviously safe" exceptions.
  2. [gone] upstream alone NEVER qualifies a branch for deletion. A remote branch can be deleted while the work is unmerged. [gone] is only a hint to run the merge checks.
  3. Detect the default branch from <remote>/HEAD, never hardcode main/master. If unset, run git remote set-head <remote> --auto first.
  4. A branch belongs to Group 1 only if it passes at least one of, against DEFAULT:
    • Check A: it is an ancestor of DEFAULT (ordinary merge)
    • Check B: git cherry DEFAULT <branch> prints only - lines (every commit patch-equivalent — single-commit squash merges)
    • Check C: a merged PR whose head ref is this branch has headRefOid equal to the local tip AND baseRefName equal to the short name of DEFAULT — the merged PR is provably THIS branch state, landed on THIS target

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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. 8d ago First seen · 248 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A b9083480e9e9

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git-branch-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository fang2hou/skills (2 stars, last pushed 21d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 4,431 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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