--- title: "finishing-a-development-branch skill: merge, open a PR or keep it" canonical_url: https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/finishing-a-development-branch last_updated: 2026-10-02T01:58:30+02:00 type: skill summary: "Finishing a Development Branch is an agent skill from Superpowers: when work is done, your agent runs the tests, offers to merge, open a pull request or keep the branch, then cleans up." install: "/plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official" related: - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/getsentry/code-review" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/openai/gh-address-comments" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/openai/gh-fix-ci" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/getsentry/iterate-pr" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/brainstorming" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/diagnosing-superpowers" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/dispatching-parallel-agents" - "https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/executing-plans" --- # Finishing a Development Branch Finishing a Development Branch is an agent skill from Superpowers: when work is done, your agent runs the tests, offers to merge, open a pull request or keep the branch, then cleans up. | Fact | Value | |---|---| | Publisher | Jesse Vincent | | Source | https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/HEAD/skills/finishing-a-development-branch | | License | MIT | | Repository stars | 293,976 on 2026-10-02 | | Skill name | finishing-a-development-branch | | Category | Code review and Git | | Skill last changed | 2026-08-12 | | Page updated | 2026-10-02 | | Facts checked | 2026-10-02 | ## Install In Claude Code, install the whole Superpowers plugin from Anthropic's official marketplace: ``` /plugin install superpowers@claude-plugins-official ``` Or install only this skill with the skills CLI: ``` npx skills add obra/superpowers --skill finishing-a-development-branch ``` ## Ask your coding agent A skill can include scripts that run on your computer, so read its source first: https://github.com/obra/superpowers/tree/HEAD/skills/finishing-a-development-branch ```text Install the agent skill finishing-a-development-branch from github.com/obra/superpowers. ``` ## What it does Finishing a Development Branch is one of the skills in Superpowers, Jesse Vincent's open-source method for AI coding agents. It loads when implementation is complete and the work needs to be integrated. The agent first runs the project's full test suite. If anything fails, it reports the failures and stops: the options appear only after a green run. Before any merge it also confirms which branch the work split from. Finishing a Development Branch then checks whether the agent is in a normal repository or a worktree, and shows you a fixed menu: merge back locally, push the branch and open a pull request, or keep the branch as it is. From a detached HEAD there are two options, with no local merge. The integration decision is yours, and the agent waits for it. A local merge is tested again on the merged result before the branch is deleted. Finishing a Development Branch removes a worktree only if Superpowers created it (under .worktrees/ or worktrees/) and leaves any other worktree to the tool that made it. If removal is refused because of files that were never committed, it lists them and asks you what to do instead of forcing it. Discarding the work happens only when you ask, and only after you type the word discard. It force-pushes only on your explicit request. ## When to use it - Your agent finished a feature and you want to choose between merging it and opening a pull request. - You want the tests run on the final tree before anything is merged. - You use git worktrees and want them cleaned up without losing uncommitted files. ## When to pick something else - You want a code review before deciding: use Requesting Code Review. ## Which agents it works in Jesse Vincent documents it for Claude Code, Codex (app and CLI), Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot CLI, OpenCode, Antigravity, Devin CLI, Factory Droid, Grok Build CLI, Kimi Code, Pi, Qwen Code, Hermes Agent, Muse. The open skills CLI also installs it into 78 agents (listed with the CLI on 2026-10-01). Superpowers is written in Claude Code's vocabulary (subagent dispatch, todos, the Skill tool) and ships tool mappings for Codex, Gemini CLI, Pi, Antigravity, Hermes Agent and Muse. Installed as the full plugin, a session-start hook loads Using Superpowers so the agent reaches for skills on its own; one skill installed with the skills CLI gets no hook and may point to sibling skills you do not have. ## License MIT. ## Related ### Related skills for code review and git - [Code review](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/getsentry/code-review): code-review is Sentry's agent skill for reviewing pull requests by Sentry's engineering practices: runtime errors, performance, side effects, compatibility, security, design, tests and the tone of feedback. - [GitHub address comments](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/openai/gh-address-comments): gh-address-comments is OpenAI's agent skill for pull request review feedback: the agent fetches every comment and review thread on the open PR, numbers them, and fixes only the ones you pick. - [GitHub fix CI](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/openai/gh-fix-ci): gh-fix-ci is OpenAI's agent skill for failing pull request checks: the agent uses the GitHub CLI to find failing GitHub Actions runs, pulls the logs, summarizes the failure and proposes a fix plan. - [Iterate on PR](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/getsentry/iterate-pr): iterate-pr is Sentry's agent skill that keeps working on a GitHub pull request until CI passes and high and medium priority review comments are fixed, using bundled scripts and the gh CLI. ### More from Jesse Vincent - [Brainstorming](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/brainstorming): Brainstorming is an agent skill from Superpowers that makes your coding agent work out what you want and agree a design with you before it writes any code. - [Diagnosing Superpowers](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/diagnosing-superpowers): Diagnosing Superpowers is an agent skill from Superpowers that reads a session's transcripts when work went wrong and reports what happened, with every finding tied to a file and line. - [Dispatching Parallel Agents](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/dispatching-parallel-agents): Dispatching Parallel Agents is an agent skill from Superpowers: when several problems are independent, your agent sends a focused subagent to each at once, then checks the results together. - [Executing Plans](https://cookiesforai.app/skills/obra/executing-plans): Executing Plans is an agent skill from Superpowers in which your agent works through a written plan itself, task by task with tests, then gets one fresh review of the whole branch.