Skills

Check a Pull Request

Finds review comments, failing checks and PR body gaps before submission.

Install

npx skills add paperclipai/paperclip --skill check-pr -g -a claude-code -y
Repository
paperclipai/paperclip110k
Category
Git and review
Updated
3d ago
License
MIT
Context cost
Mediumabout 3,000 tokens
Runs scripts
No, instructions only

What it does

Check a GitHub, GitLab, or Perforce PR/MR/CL for review comments, failing checks, and PR-body gaps. Use when asked to inspect, fix, or prepare a change for submission.

Check PR

Analyze a pull request (GitHub), merge request (GitLab), or shelved changelist (Perforce) for review comments, status checks, and description completeness, then help address any issues found.

Inputs

  • PR/MR/CL number (optional): If not provided, detect the PR/MR for the current branch, or the default pending changelist for p4.

Instructions

0. Detect platform

First check if the user is working in a Perforce depot by looking for a .p4config file or P4CLIENT/P4PORT environment variables:

# Check for Perforce environment
if p4 info >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  VCS="perforce"
else
  # Fall back to git remote detection
  REMOTE_URL=$(git remote get-url origin)
  if echo "$REMOTE_URL" | grep -qi "gitlab"; then
    VCS="gitlab"
  else
    VCS="github"
  fi
fi

For self-hosted GitLab instances whose hostname doesn't contain "gitlab", the user can override by passing --vcs gitlab as an input. For Perforce, the user can override by passing --vcs perforce.

1. Identify the PR/MR/CL

If a number was provided, use it. Otherwise, detect it:

GitHub:

gh pr view --json number,headRefName,headRefOid -q '{number: .number, branch: .headRefName, head: .headRefOid}'

GitLab:

glab mr view --output json | jq '.iid'

Perforce:

# List pending changelists for the current user/client
p4 changes -s pending -u $P4USER -c $P4CLIENT

Key field differences between platforms:

  • GitHub: number, headRefName, headRefOid
  • GitLab: iid, source_branch, sha
  • Perforce: changelist number (CL), shelved files for in-review CLs

2. Fetch PR/MR/CL details

GitHub:

gh pr view <PR_NUMBER> --json title,body,state,reviews,comments,headRefName,headRefOid,statusCheckRollup
OWNER_REPO=$(gh repo view --json nameWithOwner -q .nameWithOwner)
gh api "repos/$OWNER_REPO/pulls/<PR_NUMBER>/comments"
gh api --paginate "repos/$OWNER_REPO/issues/<PR_NUMBER>/comments?per_page=100"
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