finishing-a-development-branch

finishing-a-development-branch is a skill for Claude Code from IvanSkainet/arena-agent. It costs 44 tokens per session (1,791 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of finishing-a-development-branch, MIT.

A checklist for completing finished development work and deciding how to integrate it into a Git branch. Git is a tool for tracking code changes and branches are separate lines of work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps finish a branch after implementation, including preparing a merge or pull request and cleaning up temporary workspaces.
Why use it?
It confirms tests pass and checks the repository setup before suggesting merge, pull request, or cleanup choices.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the superpowers plugin — 14 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It helps finish a branch after implementation, including preparing a merge or pull request and cleaning up temporary workspaces.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivanskainet/arena-agent/finishing-a-development-branch
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 IvanSkainet/arena-agent --skill finishing-a-development-branch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/IvanSkainet/arena-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install superpowers, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 14 skills, 1 hook.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,791 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 94% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00044 $0.01791
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00179

Measured 11d ago against content hash 5c8d4b59aedb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

94% identical to finishing-a-development-branch — 14 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/superpowers/skills/finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md · 252 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 252 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Finishing a Development Branch

Overview

Guide completion of development work by presenting clear options and handling chosen workflow.

Core principle: Verify tests → Detect environment → Present options → Execute choice → Clean up.

Announce at start: "I'm using the finishing-a-development-branch skill to complete this work."

The Process

Step 1: Verify Tests

Before presenting options, verify tests pass:

# Run project's test suite
npm test / cargo test / pytest / go test ./...

If tests fail:

Tests failing (<N> failures). Must fix before completing:

[Show failures]

Cannot proceed with merge/PR until tests pass.

Stop. Don't proceed to Step 2.

If tests pass: Continue to Step 2.

Step 2: Detect Environment

Determine workspace state before presenting options:

GIT_DIR=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)
GIT_COMMON=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)

This determines which menu to show and how cleanup works:

State Menu Cleanup
GIT_DIR == GIT_COMMON (normal repo) Standard 4 options No worktree to clean up
GIT_DIR != GIT_COMMON, named branch Standard 4 options Provenance-based (see Step 6)
GIT_DIR != GIT_COMMON, detached HEAD Reduced 3 options (no merge) No cleanup (externally managed)

Step 3: Determine Base Branch

# Try common base branches
git merge-base HEAD main 2>/dev/null || git merge-base HEAD master 2>/dev/null

Or ask: "This branch split from main - is that correct?"

Step 4: Present Options

Normal repo and named-branch worktree — present exactly these 4 options:

Implementation complete. What would you like to do?

1. Merge back to <base-branch> locally
2. Push and create a Pull Request
3. Keep the branch as-is (I'll handle it later)
4. Discard this work

Which option?

Detached HEAD — present exactly these 3 options:

Implementation complete. You're on a detached HEAD (externally managed workspace).

1. Push as new branch and create a Pull Request
2. Keep as-is (I'll handle it later)
3. Discard this work

Which option?

Read the full file on GitHub · 252 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. 11d ago First seen · 252 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 5c8d4b59aedb

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finishing-a-development-branch is a skill published in the GitHub repository IvanSkainet/arena-agent (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,791 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 94% identical to finishing-a-development-branch, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.