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smart-rebase
Smart partial rebase for squash-merge repositories. Auto-detect which commits to keep/drop when base branch was squash-merged into target. Use when: user says 'rebase', 'partial rebase', 'base already merged', 'smart rebase', or /smart-rebase. Not for: simple git rebase (the developer runs it — Claude never executes rebase), merge conflict resolution (use /merge-prep), branch switching (the developer runs git checkout). Output: rebase plan table + a shell-quoted git rebase --onto command for the developer to run after the ambiguity check in Step 5.
Works with
Install in three steps
- 1
Download the ZIP
One file per agent, plus INSTALL.md with the exact paths below.
- 2
Claude Code: copy SKILL.md into your skills folder
.claude/skills/smart-rebase/SKILL.md # this project ~/.claude/skills/smart-rebase/SKILL.md # every project
- 3
Other agents: use the matching file
skill.mdc goes in Cursor’s .cursor/rules/. AGENTS.md works as GitHub Copilot instructions, a legacy .cursorrules, or a Codex / Gemini CLI instructions file.

