merge-ready

merge-ready is a skill for Claude Code from Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc. It costs 44 tokens per session (9,935 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A pre-merge checklist that runs the project’s documented quality checks before code is merged. A merge is the act of combining a completed change into the shared codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before merging a change, or rerun one named check when investigating a failure. After the checks, it writes the required changelog entry.
Why use it?
It catches problems in code, documentation, security, builds, end-to-end behavior, goals, and user experience before the change is accepted.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents.

Part of the claude-code-sdlc plugin — 8 skills, 16 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before merging a change, or rerun one named check when…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/koroqe/claude-code-sdlc/merge-ready
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 Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc --skill merge-ready
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-code-sdlc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 16 agents, 6 hooks.

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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 9,935 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 $0.00044 $0.09935
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.04967
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.01987
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00993

Measured 7d ago against content hash 72bcaa984757, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

merge-ready 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 7d 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/merge-ready/SKILL.md · 597 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 597 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Command: Merge Ready

Run a full quality gate before merge. All checks must pass.

Arguments

$gate (also available as $ARGUMENTS) optionally names a single gate to rerun. When empty, run every gate in order.

Literal-token flag rule: a documented flag is active ONLY if its literal token appears in $ARGUMENTS. Never infer that a flag was passed because the documentation describes it.

Tier Check

This step runs before Gate 0. It is deliberately unnumbered — mirroring the existing unnumbered "Finalization: Changelog Entry" postamble's precedent for adding a step without renumbering the gates — because other files and CI checks reference gates by number, and none of them may shift.

Read .claude/scratchpad.md's ## Tier: field:

  • Fail-closed rule: any ## Tier: value other than the literal quick runs all 9 gates unmodified — full, the field absent, fast, a typo, merge-conflict garbage, or anything else that is not an exact quick match. This is the rule itself, not a fallback for the cases spelled out below.
  • full, or the field absent: run all 9 gates unmodified, exactly as documented below. Absent-means- full is the backward-compatibility instance of the fail-closed rule above — a pre-F4 scratchpad with no ## Tier: field at all gets the full, unreduced gate sequence, never a silently reduced one.
  • quick: run Gate 0 (Git Hygiene), Gate 2 (Code Review), Gate 3 (Security Audit), and Gate 4 (Build Verification). Report Gate 1, Gate 5, Gate 6, Gate 7, and Gate 8 as SKIPPED (tier: quick) in the output table. Never silently omit a row — a missing row reads as an oversight; an explicit SKIPPED (tier: quick) reads as a decision.
  • Why Gates 0, 2, 3, and 4 still run (FR-4.8): Gate 2 and Gate 3 review the diff itself — neither depends on any PRD/use-case/QA artifact — and Gate 4 is deterministic. Skipping any of the three would make quick a synonym for "unreviewed"; keeping them is what stops that. This sentence is the justification for the quick tier existing at all, not an incidental detail.

Read the full file on GitHub · 597 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. 7d ago First seen · 597 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 72bcaa984757

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merge-ready is a skill published in the GitHub repository Koroqe/claude-code-sdlc (51 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 9,935 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 2026-08-30.