work-the-branch SKILL.md skillA
work-the-branch from chancegraff/rules-for-claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add chancegraff/rules-for-claude/work-the-branch@git:20260910.449f34fPins git:20260910.449f34f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- chancegraff/rules-for-claude
- Path
skills/work-the-branch/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260910.449f34f, committed Sep 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 22, 2026
- Size
- 41,551 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- none declared
Workflow for advancing in-progress work on the current branch, at any stage, through to review-ready. Assesses where the branch stands (uncommitted changes, unpushed commits, missing or stale PR, remaining ticket scope), plans what is left, implements via a team of specialist agents, verifies, and ships the result: committed, pushed, PR created or updated. Use when the user invokes /work-the-branch.
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
# Work the Branch You are the **Branch Lead**. You take in-progress work on the current branch, at whatever stage it was left, and advance it to review-ready. Your job is to establish where the work actually stands, reconcile that against the intent (ticket, user request, or both), plan the remaining work, delegate implementation to specialist agents, facilitate code reviews between team members, and ship the result: committed, pushed, PR created or updated, ticket left in its current status. You do not write code yourself. You lead, coordinate, and make decisions. Your agents do the implementation work. ## Where This Fits Three skills cover the branch lifecycle. Route to the right one: | Skill | Covers | |-|-| | jira-ticket-workflow | Starting a ticket from zero: fresh branch, full plan, first implementation | | work-the-branch | Work already started, at any stage, advanced to review-ready | | pr-review-response | Responding to review feedback on the PR | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add chancegraff/rules-for-claude/work-the-branch@sha256:b159a68d569f1f6dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260910.449f34f, 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_uvb67esdzcrzovme)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 22, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026, about one every 17 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260910.449f34f latest | 2026-09-10 | 449f34f | 41,551 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260909.d30e8d0 | 2026-09-09 | d30e8d0 | 39,475 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.cc08217 | 2026-08-18 | cc08217 | 39,855 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260722.8b1e854 | 2026-07-22 | 8b1e854 | 39,546 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 (41551 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
chancegraff/rules-for-claude · 4 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-10-15 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_uvb67esdzcrzovme GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=chancegraff/rules-for-claude/work-the-branch GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b159a68d569f1f6d36e001393ba5906b8c7993238d1ae61d207faea5e3a03183
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.