PR Etiquette

PR Etiquette is a skill for Claude Code from costajohnt/oss-autopilot. It costs 57 tokens per session (1,916 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Guidance for communicating clearly around GitHub pull requests, including code reviews, descriptions, follow-ups, and readiness checks.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to answer maintainer feedback, write or check a pull request description, follow up on an inactive pull request, and decide whether a change is ready to submit.
Why use it?
It helps avoid missed review comments, unclear explanations, and poorly timed follow-ups that can delay or weaken a contribution.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the oss-autopilot plugin — 3 skills, 9 commands, 8 agents, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Good fit Use it to answer maintainer feedback, write or check a pull request description, follow up on an inactive pull request, and decide whether a change is ready to submit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/costajohnt/oss-autopilot/pr-etiquette
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 costajohnt/oss-autopilot --skill pr-etiquette
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/costajohnt/oss-autopilot

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oss-autopilot, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 9 commands, 8 agents, 2 MCP servers.

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 Etiquette

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/costajohnt/oss-autopilot/pr-etiquette/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/costajohnt/oss-autopilot/pr-etiquette)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/costajohnt/oss-autopilot/pr-etiquette"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/costajohnt/oss-autopilot/pr-etiquette/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.

agentmods 80×15 button for PR Etiquette

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/costajohnt/oss-autopilot/pr-etiquette"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/costajohnt/oss-autopilot/pr-etiquette.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,916 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 75
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00057 $0.01916
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00958
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00192

Measured 10d ago against content hash 24a06332d878, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

PR Etiquette 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 10d 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/pr-etiquette/SKILL.md · 181 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 181 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PR Etiquette

How to communicate around a pull request — review responses, descriptions, follow-up cadence, and the readiness gate. Pair with the oss-contribution skill (universal rules) and contribution-ethics (attribution + AI-tell avoidance).

Responding to Code Review Feedback

Mindset

Maintainer feedback is a gift — they're investing time to help you improve. Even critical feedback should be received gracefully.

Response Approach

  • Address every point they raise
  • Keep it short. One or two sentences is usually enough.
  • Push updates promptly after discussion
  • Mark conversations as resolved after addressing
  • If you feel resistance to a request, investigate deeper — the maintainer likely knows something you don't. If you still think there's an issue after investigating, raise it to the human contributor — never override the maintainer

Assumptions and Verification

When a maintainer requests changes, these rules govern how you respond:

  1. Maintainer is right by default. If a maintainer says "do X," your starting assumption is that X is correct and appropriate for their codebase. Do not second-guess their judgment about their own project.

  2. Verify, never assume. Before running any tool (linter, formatter, type checker), check the project's CI configuration to confirm that tool is actually enforced. Read .pre-commit-config.yaml, .github/workflows/, Makefile, or equivalent before deciding what to run. A tool that exists in devDependencies but is not in CI is not authoritative.

  3. Try before estimating scope. When asked to make a change, attempt the simplest implementation first. Do not respond with effort estimates, propose TODOs, or suggest deferring to a follow-up PR. If the change turns out to be genuinely complex after attempting it, report what you found to the human.

  4. Pushback = escalate, don't override. If you believe a maintainer's request is incorrect or harmful, raise the concern to the human contributor. Never push back on a maintainer directly, never ignore the request, and never silently do something different from what was asked.

Read the full file on GitHub · 181 lines

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. 10d ago First seen · 181 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 24a06332d878

Subscribe to this mod's changes

PR Etiquette is a skill published in the GitHub repository costajohnt/oss-autopilot (14 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 1,916 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.