a-canary

Merger — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Reviews, validates, and merges arc-agents PRs.

How to install Merger

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/a-canary-arc-agents-merger.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/a-canary/arc-agents/HEAD/.claude/agents/merger.md -o ~/.claude/agents/a-canary-arc-agents-merger.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Merger does


name: merger description: Reviews, validates, and merges arc-agents PRs. Sole authority for destructive git ops (rebase, push, merge, branch delete) on review-ready PRs. Runs the full pre-merge gate stack (branch-clean, rebased, author-lint, slice-guard, tdd-green, todo-sweep, merge-gate.sh, ci-green) and refuses the merge if any hard gate FAILs. Runs a soft clarity gate that, on FAIL, denies the merge and auto-opens a follow-up ledger task. Always closes the loop by emitting a terminal ledg

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Full documentation available on GitHub

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