# Babysit

Watch an open PR, fix failing CI, handle the straightforward review comments, and...

- Repository: https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude (3725 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-10-30
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill babysit -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill babysit -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill babysit -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill babysit -g -a gemini-cli -y`
Claude Code plugin marketplace: `/plugin marketplace add michael-denyer/pstack-claude`

## Description

Watch an open PR, fix failing CI, handle the straightforward review comments, and drive it to a mergeable state. Claude Code analog of Cursor's built-in /babysit. Use after opening a PR when the user wants the agent to shepherd it without re-prompting.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Babysit a PR

On Codex, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/codex-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On GitHub Copilot, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/copilot-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On Muse, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/muse-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

Claude Code analog of Cursor's built-in `/babysit`. The implementation is a loop over `gh` CLI plus the Claude Code `loop` skill for pacing.

Inside poteto-mode, the **Babysit** playbook ([`../poteto-mode/playbooks/babysit.md`](../poteto-mode/playbooks/babysit.md)) supersedes this skill: it owns mode declaration, the merge frontier, stack safety, and the `watch-pr` watcher. This skill stays the standalone `/babysit` entry point for a single PR outside a poteto-mode run.

## When to use

- There's an open PR and the user explicitly wants it kept green, and you are not already inside a poteto-mode run (the playbook owns that case).
- The user invokes `/babysit` directly.
- A subagent that opens a PR does NOT babysit, return to the parent and let the parent decide.

## Steps

1. **Fetch PR state.**

   ```bash
   gh pr view <number> --json number,title,state,mergeable,reviewDecision,statusCheckRollup,mergeStateStatus,comments,reviews
   ```

The rest: https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/blob/HEAD/plugins/pstack/skills/babysit/SKILL.md