Finishing A Development Branch — Git skill for Claude Code
Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup.
How to install Finishing A Development Branch
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/yves-s-just-ship-finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/yves-s-just-ship-finishing-a-development-branch && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yves-s/just-ship/HEAD/.claude/skills/finishing-a-development-branch.md -o ~/.claude/skills/yves-s-just-ship-finishing-a-development-branch/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Finishing A Development Branch does
applies_to: all-agents name: finishing-a-development-branch description: Use when implementation is complete, all tests pass, and you need to decide how to integrate the work - guides completion of development work by presenting structured options for merge, PR, or cleanup triggers:
- finish
- merge
- pr
- branch
- complete
Finishing a Development Branch
Overview
Guide completion of development work by presenting clear options and handling chosen workflow.
**Core princ
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