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ca-standup

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Daily repo hygiene — review the day's repo state, then perform the cleanups under per-action confirmation. Fast-forward only, never destructive without a yes.

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$ca-standup — daily hygiene

The best-practice checklist you run when you sit down to code, made routine and gated. The SessionStart briefing reports hygiene state read-only; this command is where the actions happen — each one confirmed individually, none taken unbidden. Arbiter gathers and proposes; you decide every mutation.

Flow

The orchestrator reads the current repo state (reusing the briefing's read-only computation — branch, ahead/behind, dirty tree, stashes, prune-candidate branches, stale worktrees) and presents it, then offers each applicable action in turn. Skip an action that has no candidates; never bundle confirmations.

  1. Fetch + fast-forward pull — kick git fetch, then offer a --ff-only pull of the current branch. Eligibility is the briefing summary's ff_pull_eligible flag (SH-6: clean working tree AND behind upstream) — the same pure helper the SessionStart briefing computes, not a condition re-derived here. On a dirty tree the pull is withheld and the dirty state is reported instead. A diverged branch (would need a merge) is refused with a diverged-branch message — never a merge commit.
  2. Prune merged local branches — list local branches already merged on remote (the : gone] upstream set), excluding the current branch and the default (main). Delete a listed branch only after an explicit per-branch confirmation; declining leaves it in place.
  3. Remove stale worktrees — list stale/merged worktrees (branch gone-or-merged, or path missing on disk), never the main worktree. Remove one only after explicit per-item confirmation; declining leaves it intact.
  4. Surface stashes / dirty / un-pushed — list stashes, uncommitted changes, and un-pushed commits, each with a suggested next step ($ca-commit, git push, git stash show). Report-and-route only: never discard a stash, reset, or push.
  5. Advisory board-drift sweep — run git log over the recent merge window (since the last ca-scoped tag, or a rolling 30-day window when no tag exists) and pipe that text to python3 "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/boardsync.py" reconcile || python "${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/hooks/boardsync.py" reconcile. Display the advisory drift report as-is: DRIFTED tasks (work merged but board state not [x]) and informational UNKNOWN ids (in the log but absent from the board). This step is read-only and best-effort — the dotted-id grep can miss a task never named in a commit. The board is never mutated here; open-tasks.md is never written. Any drifted task must be resolved explicitly through $ca-task done <id> — the only blessed board writer. State this clearly to the user; do not auto-flip.

Present a one-line summary of what was done and what was declined.

When NOT to use

  • A read-only state snapshot without acting → $ca-status.
  • Install health (interpreter, payload, hooks) → $ca-doctor.
  • Committing staged work → $ca-commit.

Hard gate

  • MUST pull with --ff-only and ONLY on a clean working tree — never a merge commit, never on a dirty tree, never a rebase.
  • MUST exclude the current branch and the default branch from branch pruning, and the main worktree from worktree cleanup.
  • MUST confirm each destructive action (branch delete, worktree remove) individually before performing it — no batched or implied yes.
  • MUST treat stash / dirty / un-pushed state as report-and-route only — never discard, reset, force, or push on the user's behalf.
  • MUST NOT write to or force-push the default branch.
  • MUST NOT auto-flip any board entry during the drift sweep — the sweep is advisory and read-only; resolving a drifted task is the user's decision and routes exclusively through $ca-task done <id>.