Finishing A Development Branch

by ed3dai

Finishing A Development Branch is a DevOps skill for Claude Code, published by ed3dai in ed3d-plugins.

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Install Finishing A Development Branch

Copy Finishing A Development Branch 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/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins/tree/main/plugins/ed3d-plan-and-execute/skills/finishing-a-development-branch ~/.claude/skills/finishing-a-development-branch

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/ed3dai/ed3d-plugins.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/ed3d-plan-and-execute/skills/finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md in ed3dai/ed3d-plugins
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/finishing-a-development-branch
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: DevOps — 828 skills

What Finishing A Development Branch does

Finishing A Development Branch guides the last step of completed work by verifying tests, offering merge/PR/keep/discard choices, and cleaning up the branch accordingly. Use it when implementation is done and you need to integrate or close out the branch.

Finishing A Development Branch is cataloged under DevOps on DirSkills. Finishing A Development Branch comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-code-plugin-marketplace and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Finishing a Development Branch

Overview

Guide completion of development work by presenting clear options and handling chosen workflow.

Core principle: Verify tests → Present options → Execute choice → Update project context → Clean up.

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

The Process

Step 1: Verify Tests

Before presenting options, verify tests pass:

# Run project's test suite
npm test / cargo test / pytest / go test ./...

If tests fail:

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

[Show failures]

Cannot proceed with merge/PR until tests pass.

Stop. Don't proceed to Step 2.

If tests pass: Continue to Step 2.

Step 2: Determine Base Branch

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Finishing A Development Branch

What else does ed3dai publish alongside Finishing A Development Branch?
Finishing A Development Branch is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ed3dai/ed3d-plugins, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Asking Clarifying Questions, Brainstorming and Coding Effectively. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Finishing A Development Branch does, and is maintained by ed3dai in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ed3dai/ed3d-plugins page.
How does Finishing A Development Branch compare to other DevOps skills?
Finishing A Development Branch ranks #736 by stars among the 828 DevOps skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Backend Patterns, API Connector Builder and Migration. 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 Finishing A Development Branch against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.