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Babysit a PR

Shepherds an open pull request to a mergeable state by fixing CI failures, resolving conflicts, and handling straightforward review comments.

Dev & CodingIntermediate★ 1,816⑂ 195AI score 8/10Last updated: Oct 11, 2026

What it does

  • Pulls full PR state in one shot via gh pr view --json number,title,state,mergeable,reviewDecision,statusCheckRollup,mergeStateStatus,comments,reviews.
  • Triages in priority order: merge conflicts (DIRTY) → failing checks → human review comments → review-bot findings (Bugbot and similar).
  • Applies mechanical fixes (renames, guard clauses, formatting nits) and quotes the originating comment in the commit message; defers judgement calls instead of guessing.
  • Paces re-checks with gh pr checks --watch during active CI, a 20–30 min heartbeat while awaiting reviewers, hourly when idle.
  • Knows when to stop: green and resolved → ready; three fix/push/recheck rounds without success → stop and summarize; design decision needed → ask the user.
  • Hard guardrails: no history rewrites on shared branches, no --no-verify, no editing assertions just to pass, no bypassing required checks.

Who it's for

  • Developers who live in GitHub PRs and lose time babysitting red CI.
  • Anyone who wants an agent to handle review follow-ups and re-pushes unattended.
  • Users with the gh CLI installed and authenticated, running Claude Code in a terminal.

Examples

  1. After opening a PR, say "keep this green": the agent root-causes the failing test, fixes the code, pushes, and watches checks to completion.
  2. A reviewer flags a variable name and a missing null check: both get fixed and committed, while an architectural suggestion is left with a reply explaining what would have been done.
  3. A PR goes DIRTY: the agent invokes the conflict-fixing skill but clears any force-push with you first if the branch is shared.

· · · Install guide · · ·

Try it now, no install

Paste this into Claude to use the skill without installing anything.

Read the instructions in this file and follow them to help me:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/HEAD/plugins/pstack/skills/babysit/SKILL.md

What I want: (describe your task here)

If Claude can't open the link, open it yourself and paste the contents instead.

↓ If it works for you, download the ZIP below and install it. Then it runs on its own — no pasting each time.

Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  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 in Claude Code

Let Claude do it — paste this into Claude Code

Install the skill I found on Claude Skill Mart.
Copy the plugins/pstack/skills/babysit folder from the GitHub repo michael-denyer/pstack-claude into my ~/.claude/skills/michael-denyer-babysit/.
When it's done, tell me in one line what this skill can do.

Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude.git /tmp/pstack-claude && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r /tmp/pstack-claude/plugins/pstack/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/

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

  1. Verify the GitHub CLI is ready: run gh auth status (install gh and run gh auth login if needed).
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude.git
  3. Create the skills directory: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the whole plugin skill set (this skill references siblings like fix-ci, loop, and poteto-mode): cp -r pstack-claude/plugins/pstack/skills/* ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Restart Claude Code, cd into the repo that has the PR, and run /babysit or ask it to "babysit this PR".
  6. Try it first on a PR from a branch you own, so force-push and history-rewrite risks stay contained.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT