pr-history-hygiene

pr-history-hygiene is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from arch3rPro/dsh-skills. It costs 80 tokens per session (905 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for keeping Git pull-request history clear and safe, from preparing changes through merging them. A pull request is a proposed code change that others review before it is added to the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Splitting unrelated work into separate pull requests, safely updating published branches, applying useful labels, and landing a chain of dependent pull requests through the code-hosting platform.
Why use it?
It reduces mixed-up reviews, accidental overwrites, and confusion when several dependent changes are being developed. It also protects other people's work when branch history must be rewritten.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the dsh-skills plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Splitting unrelated work into separate pull requests, safely updating published branches, applying useful labels, and landing a chain of dependent pull requests through the code-hosting platform.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/pr-history-hygiene
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add arch3rPro/dsh-skills --skill pr-history-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/arch3rPro/dsh-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install dsh-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for pr-history-hygiene

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/pr-history-hygiene"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/arch3rpro/dsh-skills/pr-history-hygiene/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 905 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00080 $0.00905
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00452
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00181
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00090

Measured 12d ago against content hash 964c262feef9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pr-history-hygiene scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 12d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/process/pr-history-hygiene/SKILL.md · 54 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 54 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PR History Hygiene

Discipline for the lifecycle of a pull request, from preparation through landing. It covers how to split work, how to rewrite history safely, how to label, and how to land a stack of dependent PRs. It applies to any git workflow with pull requests; the platform-specific bits (stacking, labels) generalize to whatever the repo uses.

The defining constraint: history is rewritten only when it is lease-protected — a force-push that aborts if the remote has moved — and never with raw force. Everything else follows from protecting other people's work and the review record.

Choose the history deliberately

  • Split independent changes. Each PR is one coherent change; do not bundle unrelated work. When a bug is found in a PR you already published, fix the introducing PR before propagating the fix to dependents.
  • Pick the merge strategy per change. After review, an ordinary branch may merge forward or rebase. A history rewrite is allowed after review, but it invalidates every commit-OID assumption — re-audit review threads, approvals, mergeability, and checks afterward.

Rewrite safely — never raw force

Before any history rewrite:

  1. Fetch the current remote branch and record its exact head.
  2. Publish with a lease-protected force-push (e.g. --force-with-lease=<branch>:<observed-head>) so a concurrent update aborts the push instead of being overwritten.
  3. Raw --force is never allowed — it silently destroys a concurrent update.
  4. After the push, re-fetch the live heads and re-audit unresolved review threads, approvals, and checks. Commit hashes and inline-comment anchors from before the rewrite are not current evidence.

Label deliberately

Apply one primary label that classifies the change's kind, and every material area label that the change touches. A label is material when the change substantively affects that area; do not over-tag with every area a file happens to live in.

Land a stack through the platform's native stack

Read the full file on GitHub · 54 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 12d ago First seen · 54 lines · 80 tokens per session scan A 964c262feef9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pr-history-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository arch3rPro/dsh-skills (4 stars, last pushed 25d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 905 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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