finishing-a-development-branch

finishing-a-development-branch is a skill for Claude Code from Vimalk0703/shipworthy. It costs 30 tokens per session (430 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A five-step workflow for completing a development branch: verify the code, identify its base branch, choose a merge method, carry it out, and clean up.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running tests, builds, and linting; checking branch differences and conflicts; merging or opening a pull request; and deleting the local branch after a successful merge.
Why use it?
It reduces the chance of merging untested code or losing the intended branch history. It also makes the choice between a merge commit, squash, rebase, or pull request explicit.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the shipworthy plugin — 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Running tests, builds, and linting; checking branch differences and conflicts; merging or opening a pull request; and deleting the local branch after a successful merge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vimalk0703/shipworthy/finishing-a-development-branch
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add Vimalk0703/shipworthy --skill finishing-a-development-branch
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Vimalk0703/shipworthy

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipworthy, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 66 skills, 7 commands, 3 hooks.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 430 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 $0.00030 $0.00430
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00043

Measured 10d ago against content hash 81c8dbbd4ea6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

finishing-a-development-branch 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/operations/finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Finishing a Development Branch

The 5-Step Completion Workflow

Step 1: Verify Everything Passes

Before any merge activity:

  • Run the full test suite — ALL tests must pass
  • Run the build — zero errors
  • Run the linter — zero errors
  • This is non-negotiable. Do NOT skip to step 2 with failing tests.

Step 2: Determine the Base Branch

  • Check what branch this was branched from
  • Usually main or develop
  • Verify the base branch is up to date: git fetch origin
  • Check for conflicts: git diff main...HEAD

Step 3: Present Options

Tell the user their options:

  1. Merge commit: git merge --no-ff (preserves branch history)
  2. Squash merge: git merge --squash (clean single commit)
  3. Rebase and merge: git rebase main then fast-forward merge
  4. Create PR: push and create a pull request for review

Recommend based on:

  • Single logical change → squash
  • Multiple meaningful commits → merge commit
  • Needs review → PR

Step 4: Execute

Carry out the user's chosen strategy. If creating a PR, use gh pr create with a clear title and description.

Step 5: Clean Up

After successful merge:

  • Delete the local branch: git branch -d feature/branch-name
  • Delete the remote branch (if applicable): git push origin --delete feature/branch-name
  • Remove worktree (if used): git worktree remove .worktrees/branch-name
  • Verify main is clean: git checkout main && git pull && npm test
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 · 45 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A 81c8dbbd4ea6

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finishing-a-development-branch is a skill published in the GitHub repository Vimalk0703/shipworthy (7 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 430 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 2026-08-31.

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