Skills

Babysit Old Pull Request

Judges whether an old GitHub PR still belongs, then drives it to merge-ready.

Install

npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-babysit-pr -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Git and review
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Mediumabout 1,828 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Babysits an open GitHub PR until merge-ready, first judging whether an old PR still belongs. Use when asked to watch a PR over time or update an old one, not for one-shot comment resolution or one CI failure. GitHub (incl. Enterprise) only.

Babysit a PR

Keep an open PR moving toward merge by reacting to three streams as each arrives: review comments (handed to ce-resolve-pr-feedback), CI failures (handed to ce-debug), and branch-currency items the snapshot flags.

Outcome: the PR is left at a truthfully reported terminal, looks-ready, blocked, or out-of-budget state under the run's posture. Done: Step 3 (stop conditions) reached a true stop and the Step 4 report is written. Settled ≠ merged.

What each tick looks at and every change it makes come from the bundled pr-snapshot output, never by prose, events you notice, or a coordinator's say-so (readiness also applies the review judgment in references/settle.md, which reads live state this output does not model). Read references/tick.md before the first snapshot; references/envelope.md states the full boundaries.

Posture (one value per run)

  • target, only the named PR; stop at looks-ready; never merges; offer stack-wide once if a confirmed managed stack needs work.
  • stack-ready, once a layer has zero actionable backlog (CI may still run), advance to the next open non-draft upstack layer needing work; lower layers stay probed and the lowest that re-opens pulls the walk back; never merges.
  • stack-land, as stack-ready, and selecting it is land authorization: once the bottom-most open layer is settled, gh stack merge it + gh stack sync.

One PR named → target (ask once if a confirmed multi-layer stack exists); asked to carry the whole stack → stack-ready; asked to land it → stack-land. mode:pipeline never asks. Restate posture per transition.

Non-negotiable boundaries

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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