Smart Rebase — Partial Rebase for Squash-Merge Repos

Analyze branch history → identify squash-merged commits → generate precise git rebase --onto command.

When NOT to Use

• Simple git rebase without squash-merge complexity — the developer runs it; Claude never executes rebase, here or anywhere else (§ Permissions). "Use git directly" is an instruction to the human, and this list is read by the dispatcher before § Permissions loads, so it says so here
• Merge conflict resolution (use /merge-prep)
• Branch management or switching — the developer runs the git command
• Cherry-picking specific commits (use git cherry-pick)

Core Problem

In squash-merge repositories, when a feature branch is based on another branch that was already squash-merged: