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Apply Renovate PRs Locally

Collects every open Renovate pull request from a GitHub repo and applies their diffs to your local working tree so the combined dependency upgrade can be built and tested at once.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 175⑂ 41AI score 9/10Last updated: Sep 3, 2026

What it does

  • Uses the gh CLI to discover all open Renovate PRs (with a fallback query for self-hosted or user-account Renovate bots; ignores the Dependency Dashboard issue).
  • Orders PRs to minimise conflicts (patch → minor → major, manifest-only before lockfile-heavy, grouped before single-dependency) and applies each one via gh pr diff --patch + git apply --3way.
  • Resolves conflict markers with a "keep the higher version" rule; when a patch refuses to apply, it edits the manifest directly to the target version from the PR title.
  • Regenerates lockfiles once at the end using the project's own tooling (npm install --package-lock-only, pnpm install --lockfile-only, uv lock, go mod tidy, …).
  • Fixes the spots Renovate misses: .sdkmanrc maven/gradle pins and hardcoded image tags in Testcontainers config classes.
  • Runs the build/tests and produces a report table of applied / manually applied / skipped PRs plus undo instructions.
  • Safety: never commits, pushes, merges, cherry-picks, or closes anything — read-only gh calls, changes are left uncommitted.

Who it's for

  • Maintainers drowning in a backlog of Renovate/Dependabot dependency PRs.
  • Teams that want to validate all upgrades together in one build instead of merging them one by one.
  • Java/Spring Boot, Maven/Gradle and Testcontainers projects where versions are duplicated across several files.

Examples

  1. "Apply all open Renovate PRs and run ./mvnw verify" → applies each patch in order and reports the combined build result.
  2. "Only apply the patch-level updates" → filters out minor/major bumps and states the filter used.
  3. "Apply the Gradle wrapper PR" → updates gradle-wrapper.properties, pulls the binary gradle-wrapper.jar from the PR head, and syncs the gradle= line in .sdkmanrc.

· · · Install guide · · ·

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  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the skills/apply-renovate-prs folder from the GitHub repo sivaprasadreddy/sivalabs-agent-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/apply-renovate-prs/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/sivaprasadreddy/sivalabs-agent-skills.git /tmp/sivalabs-agent-skills && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/sivalabs-agent-skills/skills/apply-renovate-prs ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Prerequisites: install the GitHub CLI (gh) and run gh auth login; git is also required.
  2. Clone the skills repository: 
    git clone https://github.com/sivaprasadreddy/sivalabs-agent-skills.git
  3. Copy the skill folder into your Claude skills directory: 
    mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r sivalabs-agent-skills/skills/apply-renovate-prs ~/.claude/skills/
  4. Restart Claude Code and confirm apply-renovate-prs is listed. Because the skill sets disable-model-invocation: true, you must invoke it by name.
  5. From your target project directory, ask: "Use the apply-renovate-prs skill to apply all open Renovate PRs."
  6. Start from a clean working tree (or git stash first) and note your current commit SHA so you can undo with git checkout -- ..
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT