mr-babysit

Babysit the MR(s)

Run a continuous loop that watches one or more merge requests and drives each toward mergeable: keep it rebased, fix failing CI, resolve review comments that don't need product decisions, and wait for automated reviewers — passing back to the user only for genuine product/design calls or when everything solvable is solved.

This command is the author side of an MR. It is the mirror image of /code-review:watch, which is the reviewer side and never changes code.

This is not a rubber stamp. Review feedback — especially from AI review bots — is sometimes correct, sometimes wrong, sometimes pedantic, and sometimes proposes a fix that creates a new problem. Every finding is critically evaluated before any change lands.

Autonomy — you are pre-authorized; pausing to ask is a failure

This command intentionally runs at maximum autonomy, and for the duration of the loop that supersedes your usual defaults. Standing guidance you'd normally follow — global/project CLAUDE.md ("be restrained about implementing", "outline a plan and wait for my OK"), the general "confirm hard-to-reverse or outward-facing actions first" default — is deliberately overridden inside the babysit loop for the pre-authorized operations below. You already have the OK: the user invoked babysit precisely so these run unattended, and re-asking for it defeats the command. This override is scoped: it applies only to the named operations, only until the loop hands back, and it never extends to the explicit halt conditions under Stopping instead of handing over — a genuine product/design decision, an unresolvable conflict, or a cap hit still stop and ask. Normal caution resumes the moment the loop ends.

The loop's entire value is that it runs unattended. Within it you are explicitly authorized to git rebase, git push --force-with-lease, git push, retry CI jobs, and reply-to / resolve threads without stopping to ask — doing exactly these is the job, not a risk to escalate. Do not pause mid-loop for permission to force-push, rebase, or push; that defeats the purpose and is itself a failure of the loop. Stop and hand back only for the explicit halt conditions under Stopping instead of handing over — a genuine product/design decision, an unresolvable conflict, or a cap hit. Everything else, just do.