resolve-merge-conflicts

A procedure for merging changes from a base Git reference, especially when generated GitHub Actions lock files conflict. It regenerates those files from their Markdown sources and checks for remaining merge problems.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to merge origin/main, regenerate conflicting workflow lock files, stage the results, and verify that no unresolved paths or whitespace errors remain.
Why use it?
Generated lock files should reflect the merged source instead of being resolved by choosing one side manually. The procedure also avoids hiding conflicts in other file types.

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/github/gh-aw/resolve-merge-conflicts
Any agent
npx skills add github/gh-aw --skill resolve-merge-conflicts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/github/gh-aw

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 687 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 $0.00019 $0.00687
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00344
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00137
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00069

Measured today against content hash 3f17ae35499e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

resolve-merge-conflicts 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 today.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (resolve.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.

.github/skills/resolve-merge-conflicts/SKILL.md · 74 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 74 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Resolve Merge Conflicts

Use this skill when merging origin/main into a branch, especially when the only conflicts are generated .github/workflows/*.lock.yml files.

One-step path

From the repository root, run:

./.github/skills/resolve-merge-conflicts/resolve.sh origin/main

The command works both before a merge and after another command has stopped on conflicts. It:

  1. Starts the merge with --no-commit, or resumes the current merge.
  2. Refuses to auto-resolve if any conflict is not a workflow .lock.yml.
  3. Scans .github/workflows/*.md for leftover conflict-marker lines (<<<<<<<, |||||||, =======, >>>>>>>) and aborts before compiling if any are found — see "Why the marker scan matters" below.
  4. Runs make recompile once so generated files come from the merged Markdown.
  5. Stages the regenerated conflicting lock files.
  6. Verifies that no unresolved paths or whitespace errors remain.

The script does not fetch, commit, push, abort, or edit workflow Markdown. Refresh origin/main first only when credentials are available. After success, review the staged merge, run the repository's final validation gate, then commit and push.

Why the marker scan matters

A source .md conflict resolved manually (by a human or an agent) can leave a stray conflict-marker line behind — most often the rarely-noticed ||||||| base (original) diff3 marker — inside a workflow's YAML frontmatter. git diff --check only inspects lines touched by the current diff/staged hunks, so a marker already committed in otherwise-unchanged file content passes silently. The gh-aw compiler then parses the marker text as a literal YAML header option (e.g. invalid header option: "|||||| base (original)"), which fails compilation later — often in an unrelated scheduled recompilation run, far from the original merge, making the root cause hard to trace back.

Run the standalone check any time you suspect a workflow .md file went through manual conflict resolution, even outside this script's merge flow:

Read the full file on GitHub · 74 lines

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. today Changed · +26 lines 3f17ae35499e
  2. 3d ago First seen · 48 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A c0b3a31133b8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

resolve-merge-conflicts is a skill published in the GitHub repository github/gh-aw (5,084 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 687 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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