Clean Gone Branches

Clean Gone Branches is an Automation skill for Claude Code, published by fcakyon in claude-codex-settings.

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Install Clean Gone Branches

Copy Clean Gone Branches into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings/tree/main/plugins/github-dev/skills/clean-gone-branches ~/.claude/skills/clean-gone-branches

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/fcakyon/claude-codex-settings.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/github-dev/skills/clean-gone-branches/SKILL.md in fcakyon/claude-codex-settings
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/clean-gone-branches
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Automation — 1523 skills

What Clean Gone Branches does

Clean Gone Branches removes local Git branches that were deleted from the remote. Use it after fetching when you want to prune gone branches and clear any related worktrees first.

Clean Gone Branches is cataloged under Automation on DirSkills. Clean Gone Branches comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-tools, claude-ai, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

From the original repository

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.

Frequently asked about Clean Gone Branches

What else does fcakyon publish alongside Clean Gone Branches?
Clean Gone Branches is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from fcakyon/claude-codex-settings, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include ADHD Output Style, Agent Browser and Azure Tools Setup. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Clean Gone Branches does, and is maintained by fcakyon in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the fcakyon/claude-codex-settings page.
How does Clean Gone Branches compare to other Automation skills?
Clean Gone Branches ranks #775 by stars among the 1523 Automation skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Autonomous Loops, Autonomous Agent Harness and Automation Audit Ops. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Clean Gone Branches against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.