Finishing a development branch
The end-of-branch checklist: rebase, squash, description, and what must be true before it merges.
Installation
$ npx skills add obra/superpowersThe CLI's unit is the repository, so this installs everything in obra/superpowers, not finishing-a-development-branch alone. It writes into whichever agent directories it finds — Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Copilot, Windsurf, Zed.
Summary
The end-of-branch checklist: rebase, squash, description, and what must be true before it merges.
- Reach for it when agent-authored branches that arrive with 40 commits called 'fix' and an empty description.
- Sits in Ship — branches, pipelines, releases and the deploy itself.
- Stack-agnostic — nothing in it assumes a particular language or framework.
- Published by Jesse Vincent. Well regarded, but not the vendor of the thing it covers.
- Installing pulls the whole obra/superpowers repository: this catalogue lists 13 other entries from it, and the repo may hold more.
Where it sits in delivery
ShipBranches, pipelines, releases and the deploy itself.Everything in Ship →
The skill itself
The full text lives with its publisher and changes when they change it. Read it there rather than here — a mirrored copy of somebody else's procedure goes stale silently, and this page would have no way of telling you.
Related
More in Ship
- Authoring GitHub workflowsWriting Actions workflows, from a team that maintains some very large ones.
dotnet/skills - EAS workflowsExpo Application Services build, submit and update pipelines, from Expo.
expo/skills - CI/CD & automationPipeline structure, caching, matrix builds and gating.
addyosmani/agent-skills - Git workflow & versioningCommit hygiene, branching and semantic versioning as one consistent set.
addyosmani/agent-skills - Secure workflow guideHardening CI: pinned actions, scoped tokens, and the injection paths in a pull_request_target trigger.
trailofbits/skills - Shipping & launchRelease readiness: rollout, flags, rollback and what gets watched after the deploy.
addyosmani/agent-skills