git-branches-cleanup

git-branches-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pivoshenko/pivoshenko.ai. It costs 99 tokens per session (833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cleanup workflow for local Git branches, which are separate lines of development in a code repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for previewing stale or merged branches, asking for confirmation, and deleting the selected local branches safely.
Why use it?
It identifies branches that are no longer needed because their remote branch was deleted or their changes reached the base branch, while protecting important branches.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit It is for previewing stale or merged branches, asking for confirmation, and deleting the selected local branches safely.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pivoshenko/pivoshenko.ai/git-branches-cleanup
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 pivoshenko/pivoshenko.ai --skill git-branches-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pivoshenko/pivoshenko.ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 833 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 $0.00099 $0.00833
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.00417
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00167
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00083

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7ef456e2483f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git-branches-cleanup 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 4d 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/git-branches-cleanup/SKILL.md · 50 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 50 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cleanup Branches

Prune locals = merged OR remote gone. Destructive -> preview + confirm.

Flow

  1. If user mentioned keep-patterns inline (e.g. "but keep spike/*") -> capture them. Else assume none. Don't prompt up front.
  2. Parallel:
    • git fetch --all --prune
    • git branch --show-current
  3. Base: user names one -> use it. Else detect: git symbolic-ref --short refs/remotes/origin/HEAD -> strip the origin/; ref missing -> git remote set-head origin -a, re-read; no remote -> main, fall back master. Why -> this is a delete path, and --merged <wrong-base> misclassifies live branches as merged. Compare against origin/<base>, not the local ref -> the local base is often stale or absent entirely (git-branch-create branches off origin/<base> without ever creating it), so a local-ref check either errors or reports branches as unmerged that the remote already has.
  4. Candidates:
    • Gone: upstream gone.
      git for-each-ref --format='%(refname:short) %(upstream:track)' refs/heads \
        | awk '$2 == "[gone]" {print $1}'
      
    • Merged: fully merged into the remote base (step 1 already fetched + pruned).
      git branch --merged origin/<base> --format='%(refname:short)'
      
    • Note: squash-merged PRs leave no merge commit, so they won't appear in Merged. Closing the PR deletes the remote -> they show up in Gone instead. The Gone bucket is the catch-all for PR-merged work.
    • Union. Exclude:
      • current
      • base (main/master)
      • protected: any long-lived branch the repo treats as non-disposable if present (e.g. develop, release/*, staging). Skip silently if none exist.
      • user keep-patterns from step 0 (if provided).
  5. Print grouped by reason (gone vs merged), one line per branch, no prose. Ask confirm.
  6. On confirm:
    • Merged: git branch -d <name>. -d re-checks against HEAD/upstream, not origin/<base>, so it can refuse a branch the Merged bucket listed -> that's a safe refusal, not a bug: report it as skipped, don't reach for -D.
    • Gone + unmerged: git branch -D <name>. Explicit confirm only.
  7. Print summary: counts + one line per skipped branch (+ why). No recap of what was already listed.

Read the full file on GitHub · 50 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. 4d ago Changed 7ef456e2483f
  2. 9d ago First seen · 50 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 366792b43972

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git-branches-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository pivoshenko/pivoshenko.ai (4 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 833 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-08-31.