Ca cleanup

$ca-cleanup — post-merge branch transition

Your PR merged. You are still standing on the branch, with build output, worktree residue, and scratch files around you. This command owns the ordinary walk back: prove the branch actually landed, decide what the leftovers are, get to a clean fast-forwarded default checkout, and drop the merged local branch.

It exists because nothing else owned it. $ca-standup is daily hygiene and deliberately never touches the current branch or the default one; $ca-chore takes docs, dependency bumps, and reverts. Issue #308 recorded what the gap produced: a routine cleanup routed to $ca-chore, which refused it, and then to $ca-override — a bypass invented to cover missing coverage. This is that coverage.

Routes to

The post-merge-cleanup skill (${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/routines/post-merge-cleanup/SKILL.md), which owns the ancestry proof, the artifact classification, and the per-item confirmations.

When NOT to use

• The branch has NOT merged yet → $ca-pr (finishing-a-development-branch) owns the terminal decision; come back here after it lands.
• Daily start-of-day hygiene across other branches and worktrees → $ca-standup.
• A read-only look at what is dirty → $ca-status.
• Uncommitted work you want to keep → $ca-commit. This command never commits for you.

Hard gate

• MUST prove the current branch is an ancestor of the fetched default branch before anything is deleted. An unproven or unfetched ancestry STOPs — a branch that only looks merged is not merged.
• MUST classify every dirty or untracked artifact as unique, redundant, or superseded, and MUST NOT discard a unique or unclassifiable one without explicit per-item confirmation naming it.
• MUST confirm each removal individually — no batched yes, no implied yes.
• MUST reach the default branch with a clean working tree, and MUST fast-forward with --ff-only only — never a merge commit, never a rebase, never a reset that discards work.
• MUST NOT force-delete a branch, force-push, delete a remote branch, or write to the default branch.
• MUST NOT require $ca-override. This is ordinary lifecycle work; if it cannot proceed, the reason is a stated gate, not a bypass.