finishing-a-development-branch SKILL.md skillA
finishing-a-development-branch from jnpiyush/agentx is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/finishing-a-development-branch@git:20261012.85d093dPins git:20261012.85d093d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jnpiyush/agentx
- Path
.github/skills/development/finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261012.85d093d, committed Oct 12, 2026
- First version recorded
- May 21, 2026
- Size
- 9,412 bytes
- Repository stars
- 19
- License
- Apache-2.0
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?".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
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exists for the branch and the agent is about to switch away without removing it - A long-running spike branch has been superseded by a different approach Skip when: - The branch is the long-lived `main` / `master` / `develop` -- this skill is about feature branches - The user explicitly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 (`.frontier/runtime/frontier.ps1 loop status`) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jnpiyush/agentx/finishing-a-development-branch@sha256:1cff0f70796a89b3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261012.85d093d, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_27fqn65mowvkh2zp)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between May 21, 2026 and Oct 12, 2026, about one every 36 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261012.85d093d latest | 2026-10-12 | 85d093d | 9,412 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261012.38fb931 | 2026-10-12 | 38fb931 | 9,648 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.244da72 | 2026-09-25 | 244da72 | 9,422 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.f17c505 | 2026-09-15 | f17c505 | 9,364 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260521.3686a4a | 2026-05-21 | 3686a4a | 9,352 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9412 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
jnpiyush/agentx · 19 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_27fqn65mowvkh2zp GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jnpiyush/agentx/finishing-a-development-branch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1cff0f70796a89b31781ab76df869a5c1fed47c52a88eb2dbe8f6b83f8c2710d
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