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finishing-a-development-branch is agent-read markdown (skill) from jnpiyush/agentx: Decide what to do with a feature branch once the work itself is complete. Covers the merge / open PR / keep open / discard decision, the pre-disposition checklist (loop complete, tests green, compound capture resolved), and cleanup commands for branches and worktrees. Use whenever an agent says "tests pass, now what?"..

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What the file says

# Finishing A Development Branch

> WHEN: The work on a feature, bug-fix, spike, or experiment branch is functionally complete and the agent is about to choose between merge, open PR, keep open for follow-up, or discard. This is the moment where unfinished cleanup turns into branch-graveyard debt.

## When to Use This Skill

Load this skill when:

- Tests pass on the branch and the agent is about to claim "done"
- The Engineer or Auto-Fix Reviewer is about to commit and push but has not chosen a disposition
- An experimentation-loop attempt finished (kept or reverted) and the working branch still exists
- A worktree exists for the branch and the agent is about to switch away without removing it
- A long-running spike branch has been superseded by a different approach

Skip when:

- The branch is the long-lived `main` / `master` / `develop` -- this skill is about feature branches
- The user explicitly wants to keep the branch open without choosing a disposition (rare; ask)

## Prerequisites

- Branch contains a coherent change set with a clear claim of completion
- Quality loop status known (`.agentx/frontier.ps1 loop status`)
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How to install

Latest version
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/finishing-a-development-branch@git:20260915.f17c505
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  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9364 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

jnpiyush/agentx · 16 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-21 · branch master

API

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GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jnpiyush/agentx/finishing-a-development-branch
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/21f3c60701c9ccf8f1cf77273eb025fc19754669d8f0045832166fdc89f73387

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