Loop/Prompt Library / Code quality & refactoring
🔁 Branch and worktree cleanup
Sorts through old branches, pull requests, and work-in-progress, rescues anything useful, and removes what is truly dead.
Use it when: Your repo has so many old branches and half-done PRs that you cannot tell what matters.
🛑 Stops when: Every branch, PR, and worktree is current, owned by someone, or safely removed with proof.
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Inventory every local and remote branch, open pull request, unmerged commit, and git worktree in [repository]. For each one, decide: keep, rescue (move useful work somewhere safe), or remove. Show me evidence before removing anything, like 'already merged' or 'no commits in 6 months'. Never delete unmerged work without asking me first. Work through the list in batches of [10], for at most [5] batches. Stop when every item has a decision. Give me a table of what you kept, rescued, and removed.
Review every change the agent makes before you keep it. Set a budget or round limit — the prompt includes one.
Idea from Forward Future's Loop Library · by Matthew Berman. Prompt rewritten in plain English by FixKit AI.
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