Clean Gone Branches

fcakyon/clean-gone-branches

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".

236 tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

955

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings --skill clean-gone-branches

The instruction itself

2 sections, as written by the author

Clean Gone Branches

Remove local git branches that have been deleted from the remote.

Process

Update remote references
Run git fetch --prune.

Inspect local state
Run git branch -vv to find branches marked as [gone].
Run git worktree list to see whether any of those branches still have worktrees.

Remove worktrees first
For each [gone] branch that still has a worktree, remove the worktree before deleting the branch.

Delete the gone branches
Delete each local branch marked as [gone].

Report the result
List removed worktrees and deleted branches.
If there are no [gone] branches, report that nothing needed cleanup.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take fcakyon/clean-gone-branches from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

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