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- Repository
- EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin25.8k
- 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, asstack-ready, and selecting it is land authorization: once the bottom-most open layer is settled,gh stack mergeit +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.

