Finishing a Development Branch

About

Streamline the conclusion of development tasks with a guided workflow that ensures code quality and repository health. This skill walks you through a multi-step process: verifying that all tests pass, identifying the base branch, and presenting clear options to merge locally, push a Pull Request, preserve the branch, or discard the work. It automates technical details like GitHub CLI integration for PRs and Git worktree cleanup, preventing common mistakes such as merging broken code or leaving behind orphaned branches.

Key Features

• Automated Pull Request creation with summaries and test plans
• Automatic Git worktree cleanup for maintained hygiene
• Smart base-branch detection and local merging
• Mandatory test suite verification before integration
• Safe branch disposal with mandatory 'discard' confirmation
• 10,553 GitHub stars

Use Cases

• Automating the handoff from local development to a formal Pull Request
• Finalizing a local feature branch for integration into the main codebase
• Safely discarding experimental code and cleaning up associated worktrees