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# Reconcile — Ground-Truth Git State Before You Touch It Law 1 says research before executing. The most expensive skipped research is the state of your own repo: a branch that shifted under you, a push that silently did not land, a stash from a session you forgot. This skill establishes git ground truth first, acts only on a known state, and stops at every operation that is hard to reverse. ## When to Activate - Before any branch/merge/rebase/push when more than one session, loop, or agent may be writing to the tree. - When the working tree looks different from what you expect (unexpected branch, surprise modifications, a half-finished merge). - Before cleaning up: consolidating branches, dropping stashes, removing worktrees. - After a push, to confirm it actually landed on the remote. ## Establish Ground Truth First Read before you write. Capture the full state in one pass: ``` git branch --show-current git status --porcelain=v1 git rev-list --left-right --count @{u}...HEAD # behind / ahead of upstream git stash list git worktree list ls .git/MERGE_HEAD .git/rebase-merge .git/rebase-apply 2>/dev/null # in-progress operation? ``` On Windows with `autocrlf=true`, `git status` reports phantom line-ending-only modifications. Trust `git diff --stat` (and `git diff --ignore-all-space`) for real content drift, not `git status`. Never stage with `git add -A` / `git add .` on such a tree — stage by explicit filename. ## Detect a Concurrent Writer When another session/l