merge-conflict-resolution

merge-conflict-resolution is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from mlopscommunity/Coding-Agents-Conference-skills. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,176 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A process for resolving both visible Git merge conflicts and logical contradictions between changes made in parallel branches. A branch is a separate line of development in Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when combining parallel agent work, overlapping branches, refactors, or API and database-schema changes before treating the merge as complete.
Why use it?
Ordinary merge tools can miss cases where code combines cleanly but APIs, schemas, or behavior no longer agree.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it when combining parallel agent work, overlapping branches, refactors, or API and database-schema changes before treating the merge as complete.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mlopscommunity/coding-agents-conference-skills/merge-conflict-resolution
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add mlopscommunity/Coding-Agents-Conference-skills --skill merge-conflict-resolution
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mlopscommunity/Coding-Agents-Conference-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,176 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 $0.00047 $0.02176
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01088
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00435
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00218

Measured 11d ago against content hash 847c6433be1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

merge-conflict-resolution 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.

skills/merge-conflict-resolution/SKILL.md · 268 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 268 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Merge Conflict Resolution

Overview

The Merge Conflict Resolution Skill resolves both syntactic AND semantic merge conflicts from parallel agent work. This skill is essential when multiple agents or developers work on overlapping code simultaneously. While traditional merge tools catch syntax conflicts (merge markers), they miss semantic conflicts—situations where two changes logically contradict each other even though they don't overlap syntactically.

Core principle: Semantic conflicts are invisible to git but deadly at runtime. A human-like understanding of intent is required to resolve them correctly.

Dependency: Claude Code CLI with git and test infrastructure.

When to Use

  • Merging multiple branches that touched overlapping code
  • Combining work from parallel agents working on the same system
  • After complex refactors that affect shared abstractions
  • When API or schema changes intersect with dependent code
  • Before considering a merge complete and ready to deploy

When NOT to Use

  • Simple, fast-forward merges with no conflicts
  • Merging unrelated branches (separate features, independent systems)
  • Trivial merge conflicts (auto-mergeable, single-line disagreements)

Common Mistakes

Mistake Why it's wrong
Only resolving merge markers Merge markers are the easy part. Semantic conflicts—logical contradictions—are what break code at runtime.
Not reading all commits/PRs since divergence You need the full story of what both sides were trying to do. One commit in isolation won't tell you that.
Choosing one design without understanding both Before picking A or B, understand the intent behind each. Sometimes a hybrid approach preserves both improvements.
Trusting test results if they pass silently If the coding agent made assumptions, those same assumptions are baked into validation. Use fresh context to catch real issues.
Not flagging design decisions If you chose one approach over another because it seemed better, but it's not objectively right, flag it for human review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 268 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 · 268 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A 847c6433be1e

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merge-conflict-resolution is a skill published in the GitHub repository mlopscommunity/Coding-Agents-Conference-skills (37 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,176 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.

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