finishing-a-development-branch SKILL.md skillA

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finishing-a-development-branch from spoon94/skill-vault is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

mdr add spoon94/skill-vault/finishing-a-development-branch@git:20260919.d351127

Pins git:20260919.d351127 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade

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Kind

SKILL.md skill

Repository

spoon94/skill-vault

Path

superpowers/finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md

Versions recorded

2

Latest version

git:20260919.d351127, committed Sep 19, 2026

First version recorded

May 11, 2026

Size

7,781 bytes

Repository stars

5

License

MIT

Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work.

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

## Overview

**Core principle:** Verify tests → Detect environment → Present options → Execute choice → Clean up.

**Announce at start:** "I'm using the finishing-a-development-branch skill to complete this work."

## Step 1: Verify Tests

Run the project's full test suite (`npm test` / `cargo test` / `pytest` / `go test ./...`).

**If tests fail**, report the failures and stop — the menu comes after a green suite:

```
Tests failing (<N> failures). Must fix before completing:

[Show failures]
```

**If tests pass:** continue to Step 2.

## Step 2: Detect Environment

```bash
GIT_DIR=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)
GIT_COMMON=$(cd "$(git rev-parse --git-common-dir)" 2>/dev/null && pwd -P)
# Capture now, while still inside the workspace — Step 5 changes directory
# before cleanup (Step 6) needs this value
WORKTREE_PATH=$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)
```

This determines which menu to show and how cleanup works:

| State | Menu | Cleanup |
|-------|------|---------|
| `GIT_DIR == GIT_COMMON` (normal repo) | Standard 3 options | No worktree to clean up |
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

mdr add spoon94/skill-vault/finishing-a-development-branch@sha256:8db5a922b242dd4e

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_woln65xrkdj7nqbi.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_woln65xrkdj7nqbi)

Versions

The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between May 11, 2026 and Sep 19, 2026, about one every 131 days.

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Source

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_woln65xrkdj7nqbi
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=spoon94/skill-vault/finishing-a-development-branch
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8db5a922b242dd4e1bf824cb91c13b3e8d8e8a86d6ceaf7f0774eb9cce909d65

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