flow-abort

name	flow-abort
description	Abort the current FLOW feature. Closes the PR, deletes the remote branch, removes the worktree, and deletes the state file. Available from any phase. The confirmation prompt is governed by the skills.flow-abort config in the state file.

FLOW Abort

Abandon the current feature completely. This is the escape hatch — available from any phase, no prerequisites.

Usage

/flow:flow-abort

• /flow:flow-abort — uses the configured mode from the state file's skills.flow-abort config

Concurrency

This flow is one of potentially many running simultaneously — on this machine (multiple worktrees) and across machines (multiple engineers). Your state file (.flow-states/<branch>/state.json) is yours alone. Never read or write another branch's state. All local artifacts (logs, plan files, temp files) are scoped by branch name. GitHub state (PRs, issues, labels) is shared across all engineers — operations that create or modify shared state must be idempotent.

Mode Resolution

Resolve the mode as the first action on entry, after resolving the current branch. ## Mode Resolution is the single runnable home for mode resolution — the same pattern flow-complete uses, so the two terminal skills stay consistent. There are no --auto/--manual flags — the state file's skills.flow-abort config is the single source of truth for skill autonomy.

1. Resolve the current branch: run git worktree list --porcelain, note the project root (the path on the first worktree line), find the worktree entry whose path matches the current working directory, and take the branch refs/heads/<name> line from that entry (strip the refs/heads/ prefix). Call this <branch>.

2. Run the resolver below and use the continue field from its JSON output as the abort-confirmation mode. It reads the skills.flow-abort entry in the state file, tolerating every object config shape, and falls back to manual when the config is missing or unparseable:

   ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/flow resolve-skill-mode --skill flow-abort --branch <branch>
   

Entry Check

Run this entry check immediately after Mode Resolution.

1. Run git worktree list --porcelain. Note the path on the first worktree line (this is the project root). Find the worktree entry whose path matches your current working directory — the branch refs/heads/<name> line in that entry is the current branch (strip the refs/heads/ prefix).
2. Use the Read tool to read <project_root>/.flow-states/<branch>/state.json.
   • If the file exists: extract feature, branch, worktree, pr_number, and pr_url. Print the feature name, branch, PR URL, and current phase.
   • If the file does not exist: infer what you can from git state:
     • branch from the porcelain output (already known)
     • Detect worktree path from the porcelain output
     • Use the branch name as the feature name
     • pr_number unknown — skip PR close step later
     • Print "WARNING: No state file found for branch ''. Will attempt best-effort cleanup using git state." and tell the user what was inferred. Continue — do not stop.

If the Read tool fails for any other reason, stop and show the error.

Use these values for all subsequent steps — do not re-read the state file or re-run git commands to gather the same information.

Announce

At the very start, output the following banner in your response (not via Bash) inside a fenced code block:

```text
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
  FLOW v2.7.0 — Abort — STARTING
──────────────────────────────────────────────────
```

Steps

Step 1 — Confirm with user (manual mode only)

Skip this step if mode is auto — proceed directly to Steps 2–7.

If mode is manual, this is destructive and irreversible. Use AskUserQuestion.

If the entry check printed warnings, include them in the confirmation:

"Abort feature ''? ⚠ This will close the PR, delete the remote branch, remove the worktree, and delete the state file and log. All uncommitted work in the worktree will be lost."

• Yes, abort everything — proceed
• No, keep going — stop here

Step 2 — Remove In-Progress labels

If a state file was found in the entry check, remove the "Flow In-Progress" label from any issues referenced in the prompt. Best-effort — continue to cleanup even if removal fails. Skip this step if no state file exists.

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/flow label-issues --state-file <project_root>/.flow-states/<branch>/state.json --remove

Steps 3–8 — Run cleanup script

Run the cleanup script from the project root with abort flags:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/bin/flow cleanup <project_root> --branch <branch> --worktree <worktree_path> --pr <pr_number>

If pr_number is unknown, omit --pr. The cleanup script deletes local branches and attempts remote branch deletion when --pr is provided.

The script outputs JSON with a steps dict showing what happened to each resource: pr_close, worktree, remote_branch, local_branch, branch_dir, queue_entry. Each step reports "closed"/"removed"/"deleted", "skipped", or "failed: <reason>". The branch_dir step recursively removes every per-branch artifact under .flow-states/<branch>/ (state file, log, plan, frozen phases, CI sentinel, timings, closed-issues record, issues summary, scratch rule content, commit message, start prompt). The queue_entry step removes .flow-states/start-queue/<branch> if a start-lock entry remains.

Done

Tell the user what was cleaned, what was already gone, and what failed.

Then output the following banner in your response (not via Bash) inside a fenced code block:

```text
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
  ✓ FLOW v2.7.0 — Abort — COMPLETE
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

  Feature '<feature>' has been abandoned.
  Cleanup complete — see results above for details.
```

Report which steps succeeded and which were already cleaned up.

Rules

• Available from ANY phase — no phase gate
• Never run from inside the worktree — always navigate to project root first
• Confirm with the user only when mode is manual
• Every step after confirmation is best-effort — if one fails, continue to the next
• Never rebase, never force push — just close and delete