Does this skill support different merge strategies?

Yes, it supports and provides guidance for Squash, Rebase, and standard Merge commits, allowing you to follow your project's specific version control conventions.

How does it verify acceptance criteria?

It uses the GitHub CLI to inspect the linked issue's body, ensuring all markdown checkboxes in the Acceptance Criteria section are marked as completed.

Can it help with merge conflicts?

Yes, it detects when a branch is out of date or has conflicts and provides the specific git rebase and push commands needed to synchronize with the target branch.

What happens if a CI check fails?

The skill acts as a hard gate and will block the merge. It recommends using the ci-monitoring skill to identify and resolve the specific failures before attempting to merge again.

Does it perform post-merge cleanup?

Yes, after a successful merge, the skill facilitates closing the related issue, updating project status boards, and cleaning up local and remote tracking branches.

Merge Verification Gate

Name: Merge Verification Gate
Author: troykelly

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Deployment & DevOps

Enforces a rigorous quality checklist ensuring all tests, reviews, and CI checks pass before merging pull requests.

The Merge Verification Gate skill acts as the final quality assurance layer for issue-driven development, preventing premature merges by enforcing a strict 'hard gate' policy. It systematically validates the status of CI pipelines, local test execution, peer review approvals, and unresolved conversations using GitHub CLI integrations. By automating the verification of acceptance criteria and ensuring branches are synchronized and conflict-free, this skill maintains branch integrity and ensures that every piece of merged code fully satisfies project requirements.

Key Features

01Automated tracking of PR approvals and unresolved review conversations

02Branch synchronization and automated merge conflict detection

03Post-merge cleanup including branch deletion and issue closing

04Comprehensive CI pipeline status verification via GitHub CLI

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06Acceptance criteria validation against linked GitHub issues

Use Cases

01Standardizing the final sign-off process for pull requests in professional teams

02Maintaining a clean linear git history through enforced rebase and squash strategies

03Preventing autonomous AI agents from merging code that breaks builds or fails tests

What are Skills?·How to Install

Install with 🐟 Skill.Fish

npx skillfish add troykelly/claude-skills verification-before-merge

For use in Claude.ai and ChatGPT

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