babysit-pr

babysit-pr is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ckorhonen/claude-skills. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,069 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for managing a GitHub pull request from creation through merging and deployment checks. A pull request is a proposed code change that teammates and automated tests review before it is added to the project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create pull requests, monitor continuous-integration checks and reviews, fix branch-related failures, address valid comments, and verify deployment after merging when possible.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to manually watch tests, review comments, branch problems, and deployment status after opening a pull request.

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 claude-skills plugin — 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to create pull requests, monitor continuous-integration checks and reviews, fix branch-related failures, address valid comments, and verify deployment after merging when possible.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/babysit-pr
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 ckorhonen/claude-skills --skill babysit-pr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ckorhonen/claude-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 62 skills, 4 commands, 7 agents.

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 babysit-pr

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/babysit-pr/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/babysit-pr)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/babysit-pr"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/babysit-pr/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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/babysit-pr"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ckorhonen/claude-skills/babysit-pr.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,069 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 $0.00048 $0.02069
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.01035
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00414
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00207

Measured 11d ago against content hash 03a7843b7a5e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

babysit-pr 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 11d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 3 executable files (scripts/gh_deploy_watch.py, scripts/gh_pr_watch.py, scripts/resolve_pr_template.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/babysit-pr/SKILL.md · 196 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 196 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PR Lifecycle Operator

Objective

Own the pull request from creation through post-merge validation with as little manual babysitting as possible.

Terminal outcomes:

  • The PR is merged and the deployment looks healthy.
  • The PR is merge-safe and waiting on humans.
  • A blocker requires user help: ambiguous product intent, permissions, unrelated dirty worktree, external-only outage, or missing deployment visibility.

Do not stop at "PR created" or "CI is green once." Keep following the PR until one of the terminal outcomes is true.

Common Failure Modes

These gotchas appear during real PR automation and require proactive handling:

Watcher Script Exits Silently (Template Resolution) The watcher can exit unexpectedly if PR template resolution fails during preflight. Root cause: resolve_pr_template.py may fail to parse custom template syntax, or template file is unreadable. Mitigation: always run the resolver in --json mode first to validate template before starting the watcher. If resolution fails, fall back to the bundled default template at assets/default_pr_template.md.

Multiple Watchers on Same PR (Duplicate Comments) Running multiple gh_pr_watch.py instances for the same PR causes duplicate comment processing and can result in duplicate bot comments or conflicting retry actions. This typically happens when the watcher is restarted without properly stopping the previous session. Mitigation: use one watcher session per PR. Verify no orphaned watcher processes exist before starting: ps aux | grep gh_pr_watch. Kill any stale sessions before resuming.

CI Retry Logic Triggers on Non-Flaky Failures (Quota Waste) The retry logic may consume the CI retry budget on failures that are not actually transient (e.g., legitimate test failures from branch-specific issues). This wastes quota and can block progress on legitimate issues. Mitigation: always inspect CI logs with gh run view <run-id> --log-failed before retrying. Confirm the failure is truly flaky or unrelated to branch changes. Apply the heuristics in references/heuristics.md strictly before calling --retry-failed-now.

Read the full file on GitHub · 196 lines

Files

What ships with it

8 files 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. 11d ago First seen · 196 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A 03a7843b7a5e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

babysit-pr is a skill published in the GitHub repository ckorhonen/claude-skills (14 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,069 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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