Skills

Contributors Update

Find merged PR authors missing from README and update the contributors list after approval

Install

npx skills add homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp --skill contributors-update -g -a claude-code -y
Category
Git and review
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Lightabout 948 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Find merged PR authors missing from README and update the contributors list after approval

Contributors Update

Workflow

1. Ensure a clean, up-to-date master

Locate the primary checkout even when the skill is invoked from a worktree, then update and inspect master:

PRIMARY_CHECKOUT="$(git worktree list --porcelain | grep -m1 '^worktree ' | cut -d' ' -f2-)"
git -C "$PRIMARY_CHECKOUT" checkout master
git -C "$PRIMARY_CHECKOUT" pull --ff-only origin master
git -C "$PRIMARY_CHECKOUT" status --short
cd "$PRIMARY_CHECKOUT"

Stop if the primary checkout is dirty. Do not stash, overwrite, or mix the contributor update with other changes. This workflow qualifies for the documentation-only exception in AGENTS.md, allowing the approved README.md change to be committed directly to master without a PR.

2. Find the cutoff date

Look for the most recent commit with the marker [contributors-updated] in the merged origin/master history. Do not search --all: marker commits on abandoned branches must not affect the cutoff.

git log origin/master --oneline --grep="\[contributors-updated\]" -5

If a marker commit is found:

  • Get its date: git show <hash> --format="%ci" -s
  • Cutoff = that date minus 1 week (as overlap margin)

If no marker commit is found:

  • Cutoff = today minus 2 months

3. List merged PRs since the cutoff date

Push the merge-date constraint into GitHub's search so filtering happens before the result limit:

gh pr list --repo homeassistant-ai/ha-mcp --state merged \
  --search "merged:>=YYYY-MM-DD" --limit 1000 \
  --json number,title,author,mergedAt \
  --jq '.[] | "\(.number) \(.author.login) \(.title)"'

Replace YYYY-MM-DD with the computed cutoff date.

4. Identify new contributors

Read the current README.md ### Contributors and ### Maintainers sections to get all existing handles.

Read the whole SKILL.md on GitHub

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