factory-branching-strategy

What problem does it solve?

This Skill eliminates the chaos of uncoordinated source control changes, preventing merge conflicts, accidental direct commits to protected branches, and concurrent file modification errors that disrupt team development workflows and introduce breaking changes to production codebases.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Mandatory Concurrency Lock Protocol: Serializes all file modification operations across agents using feature or epic-scoped filesystem locks, preventing overlapping work and data corruption.
• Automated Branch Management: Handles branch creation, checkout, and validation aligned with project rules, including epic-scoped shared branches for related features and per-increment branches for sliced feature implementations.
• Enforced Merge Governance: Blocks direct merges to protected branches, requiring all changes to go through configurable pull request workflows with approval and CI validation rules.
• Use Case: A team developing a multi-epic enterprise application uses this Skill to ensure all agents work on dedicated branches, acquire locks before modifying files, and submit changes via PRs, eliminating conflicting changes and broken main branches.

Quick Start

Use the factory-branching-strategy skill to automatically enforce concurrency locks, validate branch naming conventions, and block unauthorized direct commits to protected branches before any file modification work begins.