Clean Gone Branches
Should be used when user asks to "clean gone branches", "remove deleted local...
Install
npx skills add fcakyon/claude-codex-settings --skill clean-gone-branches -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- fcakyon/claude-codex-settings1.2k
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 3d ago
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Context cost
- Lightabout 178 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
This skill should be used when user asks to "clean gone branches", "remove deleted local branches", "prune branches removed from remote", or explicitly invokes "clean-gone-branches".
Clean Gone Branches
Remove local git branches that have been deleted from the remote.
Process
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Update remote references
- Run
git fetch --prune.
- Run
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Inspect local state
- Run
git branch -vvto find branches marked as[gone]. - Run
git worktree listto see whether any of those branches still have worktrees.
- Run
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Remove worktrees first
- For each
[gone]branch that still has a worktree, remove the worktree before deleting the branch.
- For each
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Delete the gone branches
- Delete each local branch marked as
[gone].
- Delete each local branch marked as
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Report the result
- List removed worktrees and deleted branches.
- If there are no
[gone]branches, report that nothing needed cleanup.
