Git Rebase Conflict Resolution

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Resolve Git merge and rebase conflicts conservatively, preserving both sides' intent, staging only understood resolutions, and leaving a clean conflict state.

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DevelopmentIntermediate
7/22/2026
Claude CodeCodex
#git#rebase#merge-conflicts#conflict-resolution#version-control

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Automated summary

Guides an agent through conservative Git merge or rebase conflict resolution, preserving both sides' behavior and staging only fully understood hunks.

Strengths

  • Requires hunk-by-hunk understanding before editing and explicit preservation of both branches' intent.
  • Includes fail-honest stop conditions for unclear, unsafe, or binary/generated conflicts.
  • Provides Go-specific guidance for error wrapping, context.Context propagation, and synchronization ownership.
  • Defines a concrete workflow: inspect, edit, format, git add, and verify no unmerged entries remain.

Limitations

  • Does not cover language-specific conflict patterns beyond Go except through general principles.
  • Assumes an orchestrator (Compozy) owns the final commit and rollback, so it is not a standalone commit workflow.
  • Does not automate conflict detection or resolution; it depends on the agent's judgment.
When to use it

Use when an integration worktree has Git merge or rebase conflicts that need careful, behavior-preserving resolution before a final squash commit.

When not to use it

Do not use for trivial fast-forward merges, lockfile conflicts that should be regenerated automatically, or when you need the skill to author the final commit itself.

Security analysis

Safe
Quality score90/100

The skill is a conservative Git conflict-resolution guide. It only uses benign git operations (git add, git status) and editing of conflicted files, explicitly forbids committing, and instructs leaving unsafe/unclear conflicts unresolved rather than guessing. There are no destructive commands, no network exfiltration, no obfuscated payloads, and no attempts to disable safety checks. The only mild consideration is the open-ended instruction to run formatters, but it is scoped and cautioned, so overall risk is low.

Findings
  • •Step 4 allows running unspecified "language-specific formatting commands," which in some repos can trigger npm scripts or generators; still bounded to formatting and cautioned to be repo-safe.
How this analysis is made

Examples

Conservative rebase conflict resolution
Resolve the rebase conflicts in this integration worktree conservatively. Preserve both branches' behavior, stage only conflicts you fully understand, and leave anything unsafe unresolved with a clear report.
Go conflict with context and errors
We have merge conflicts in `internal/service/user.go` and `internal/api/handler.go`. Resolve them for Go, keep `fmt.Errorf("context: %w", err)` wrapping and `context.Context` propagation, combine table-test cases where both sides added cases, then run gofmt and stage the files.
Fail honestly on unclear conflict
Check the conflicted files in this worktree. If you cannot tell which side owns the invariant or resolving would require deleting behavior without evidence, leave the conflict unresolved and report why.

name: git-rebase description: Resolve Git merge and rebase conflicts conservatively, preserving both sides' intent, staging only understood resolutions, and leaving a git-clean conflict state.

Git Rebase Conflict Resolution

Use this skill when Compozy asks you to resolve conflicts in an integration worktree. The goal is a clean merge result, not a clever shortcut.

Core Rules

  1. Understand every conflicted hunk before editing it.
  2. Preserve important behavior from both sides whenever possible.
  3. Prefer the smallest readable merge that keeps the code idiomatic for the affected language and project.
  4. Do not delete tests, weaken assertions, suppress lint, swallow errors, or otherwise hide a failing invariant.
  5. Do not commit. Compozy owns the final squash commit.
  6. Do not leave conflict markers in any file.
  7. If a conflict is unsafe or unclear, leave it unresolved so Compozy can abort and roll back honestly.

Required Workflow

  1. Inspect the conflicted files listed in the prompt.
  2. For each hunk, identify what the integration branch changed and what the incoming task changed.
  3. Edit the file so both sides' required behavior is represented.
  4. Run only language-specific formatting commands that are clearly required for the files you edited and are safe for this repository.
  5. Stage resolved files with git add.
  6. Check git status --porcelain; no unmerged entries may remain.
  7. Report what was resolved and any files that remain unsafe.

Resolution Guidance

  • For Go files, keep error wrapping with fmt.Errorf("context: %w", err).
  • For Go files, preserve context.Context propagation and cancellation behavior.
  • Preserve synchronization ownership; do not introduce unmanaged background work.
  • Keep tests focused on behavior and invariants, not implementation details.
  • When both sides add cases to a table test, combine the cases unless they prove the same invariant twice.
  • When both sides alter an interface, update every implementation instead of guessing from the conflicted file alone.

Fail-Honestly Criteria

Stop and leave the conflict unresolved when:

  • you cannot tell which side owns the invariant,
  • resolving would require deleting behavior from either side without evidence,
  • conflict markers remain, or
  • a binary/generated file conflict cannot be validated safely.

Compozy will roll back the integration branch when resolution is exhausted, so an honest unresolved conflict is safer than a speculative broken merge.

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Claude Code
test -f '.skill-downloads/git-rebase-conflict-resolution-mrwaka5z/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/git-rebase-conflict-resolution-mrwaka5z/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.claude/skills' && test ! -e '.claude/skills/git-rebase' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/git-rebase-conflict-resolution-mrwaka5z' '.claude/skills/git-rebase'

Codex
test -f '.skill-downloads/git-rebase-conflict-resolution-mrwaka5z/SKILL.md' && test -s '.skill-downloads/git-rebase-conflict-resolution-mrwaka5z/SKILL.md' && mkdir -p '.agents/skills' && test ! -e '.agents/skills/git-rebase' && cp -R '.skill-downloads/git-rebase-conflict-resolution-mrwaka5z' '.agents/skills/git-rebase'

OpenSkills

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Read .skill-downloads/git-rebase-conflict-resolution-mrwaka5z/SKILL.md and apply its instructions to this example: [describe a test input]. Identify any missing files, dependencies or access. Produce the result requested by the skill without inventing data or running unreviewed scripts.

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