Agent skill
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".
Install this agent skill to your Project
npx add-skill https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry/tree/main/skills/other/other/clean-gone-branches
SKILL.md
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.
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