prune-merged-worktrees

prune-merged-worktrees is a skill for Claude Code from tomzx/agents. It costs 79 tokens per session (1,833 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cleanup skill for removing local Git worktrees and their branches after their GitHub pull requests have been merged. A worktree is another working directory connected to the same repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find merged worktrees, preview candidates with a dry run, skip dirty directories, and remove confirmed worktrees and local branches without touching the main checkout.
Why use it?
Git ancestry can wrongly suggest that a pull request is unmerged after a squash or rebase merge. This skill checks GitHub's merge state and asks for confirmation before deleting work.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: positional $N argument.

Good fit Use it to find merged worktrees, preview candidates with a dry run, skip dirty directories, and remove confirmed worktrees and local branches without touching the main checkout.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/tomzx/agents/prune-merged-worktrees
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add tomzx/agents --skill prune-merged-worktrees
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/tomzx/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 79 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,833 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 $0.00079 $0.01833
Opus 5.5 $0.00032 $0.00733
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00367
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00183

Measured 22d ago against content hash 2c8d538b8a24, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prune-merged-worktrees 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 22d 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/prune-merged-worktrees/SKILL.md · 167 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 167 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Prune Merged Worktrees

Finds local git worktrees whose branch's remote was deleted, verifies through GitHub that the branch's pull request was actually merged, then removes the worktree and the local branch after user confirmation. Verification goes through the forge because squash and rebase merges (the /merge-pr default) land the work under a new SHA, so git branch -d, git merge-base --is-ancestor, and git rev-list main..<branch> all classify fully shipped branches as unmerged.

Prerequisites

  • Current working directory is a checkout of the target repository, or a repo path is passed as $1
  • git worktree available
  • ghx (preferred) or gh CLI authenticated with access to the repository
  • The skill never removes the main checkout, a bare entry, or the worktree containing the current directory

Arguments and Flags

  • $1 (optional): path to the repository checkout (default: current directory)
  • --dry-run: print the classification table and exit without removing anything
  • --force: allow removing worktrees with uncommitted changes; without it, dirty worktrees are reported and skipped

Steps

1. List worktrees and candidates

git -C <repo> worktree list --porcelain

Skip the main checkout (the first entry) and any worktree containing the current directory. For each remaining worktree, read its branch from the branch line.

2. Fetch and find stale branches

git -C <repo> fetch --prune origin
git -C <repo> branch -vv

A worktree is a candidate only when its branch's upstream is gone (the remote branch was deleted, typically by the merge). Worktrees whose upstream still exists (open PRs, shared branches) are kept. Worktrees on branches with no upstream at all were never pushed, so there is no PR to verify: report them as skipped.

3. Verify merge state against GitHub

For each candidate branch, list merged PRs from that head. ghx pr list does not expose headRefOid, so use gh:

gh pr list --state merged --head <branch> --json number,headRefOid,mergedAt

Read the full file on GitHub · 167 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. 22d ago Changed · +8 lines 2c8d538b8a24
  2. 25d ago Changed 1157ebcb4373
  3. 27d ago Changed · -1 lines 88289e831a9b
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 160 lines · 79 tokens per session scan A f487e6ad0c5e

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prune-merged-worktrees is a skill published in the GitHub repository tomzx/agents (13 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 79 tokens to every session and 1,833 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-23.