analyze-rebase

What problem does it solve?

This Skill evaluates the risks and consequences of rebasing a diverged branch before any destructive operation, helping engineers understand functional impact, compatibility issues, and conflict likelihood so they can make an informed, reversible decision.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Divergence topology analysis: identify merge base, count ahead/behind commits, and summarize branch timeline.
• Conflict prediction and classification: surface file-level text conflicts, semantic incompatibilities, and higher-level functional regressions.
• Functional and compatibility assessment: detect API, data model, configuration, and dependency changes and evaluate propagation and compilation impact.
• Risk matrix and decision guidance: produce a graded risk matrix with mitigation steps and recommend direct, interactive, or staged rebase strategies.
• Safe execution checklist: backup branch creation, workspace hygiene, simulated rebase testing, conflict resolution workflow, and post-rebase verification including build and tests.
• Use case example: preparing a long-lived feature branch that is both ahead and behind main across multiple modules before performing a rebase.

Quick Start

Ask the analyzer to evaluate the rebase impact between your feature branch and the target branch and generate a structured mitigation and execution plan.