repo-cleanup-loop

repo-cleanup-loop is a skill for Claude Code from ivy00johns/Skill-Madness. It costs 203 tokens per session (2,829 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scheduled workflow that inventories a repository's branches, pull requests, commits, and worktrees, recovers valuable work, and removes one evidenced category of stale Git data at a time.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for weekly cleanup of obsolete branches, references, and worktrees after each item has been classified as current, owned, or safely removable.
Why use it?
It reduces repository clutter while making deletion depend on evidence and recovery, lowering the risk of losing useful work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the skill-madness plugin — 80 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it for weekly cleanup of obsolete branches, references, and worktrees after each item has been classified as current, owned, or safely removable.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ivy00johns/skill-madness/repo-cleanup-loop
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 ivy00johns/Skill-Madness --skill repo-cleanup-loop
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ivy00johns/Skill-Madness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skill-madness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 80 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 203 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,829 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 $0.00203 $0.02829
Opus 5 $0.00102 $0.01414
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00566
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00283

Measured 10d ago against content hash 8bdd29b32ae3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

repo-cleanup-loop 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 10d 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/loops/repo-cleanup-loop/SKILL.md · 194 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 194 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

repo-cleanup-loop

A configuration of [loop-controller]. That skill supplies the loop machinery — primitive selection, the full guardrail stack, state externalization. This skill supplies the three things specific to "keep the repo state intentional": the per-class recipe (it delegates the post-merge-branch case to [git-post-merge-cleanup], it does not re-implement it), the mechanical proof (a classified inventory where nothing is "safely removable" until evidence flips it), and the recover-before-delete HITL boundary that makes deletion safe. Read loop-controller for the guardrails; they're inherited, not repeated here.

Why disable-model-invocation: this loop deletes branches, prunes refs, and removes worktrees on its own, on a clock — irreversible acts. It is user-driven: you want to type /loop it weekly (or run /repo-cleanup-loop once), not have Claude silently start pruning because it noticed debris.

The 5-part contract

Part This loop
trigger a weekly cadence (/loop or /schedule) over the whole repo, or an explicit /repo-cleanup-loop
action ONE pass: scan repo state (branches + PRs + commits + worktrees) → classify each item → recover anything valuable → remove one class of safely-removable items with evidence → re-scan
proof the repo state is intentional — every branch / PR / worktree is current OR owned OR safely-removed-with-evidence — default-FAIL: each inventory item starts "reviewed": false and only flips on classification + evidence
memory the classified inventory JSON (per-item: kind, name, class, evidence, "reviewed", "recovered"), a recovery log (what was salvaged + where), and git history / reflog as the durable undo trail
stop every item reviewed and intentional (proof) OR iteration/pass cap OR no-progress for 3 passes (same item unresolved) OR budget cap OR an HITL checkpoint on an ambiguous item

Read the full file on GitHub · 194 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. 10d ago First seen · 194 lines · 203 tokens per session scan A 8bdd29b32ae3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

repo-cleanup-loop is a skill published in the GitHub repository ivy00johns/Skill-Madness (11 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 203 tokens to every session and 2,829 once invoked, about $0.0010 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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