pull-request-msg-with-gh

A tool that creates a PR_MESSAGE.md file, a structured description for a GitHub pull request, from the current coding session. It examines the changes, finds related issues from branch keywords, and checks the document's format.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when preparing a GitHub pull request, provided the GitHub CLI is installed and authenticated. It reviews the Git changes, generates the message, validates commit and Markdown formatting, and adds the file to .gitignore.
Why use it?
It removes the need to reconstruct the work manually when opening a pull request. The generated description includes the commit subject, summary, test plan, changelog, and an issue-closing reference when appropriate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dirien/yet-another-agent-harness/pull-request-msg
Any agent
npx skills add dirien/yet-another-agent-harness --skill pull-request-msg
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dirien/yet-another-agent-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 976 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00067 $0.00976
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00488
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00195
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00098

Measured 2d ago against content hash 53f50f6c44a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pull-request-msg-with-gh 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/pull-request-msg/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pull Request Message Generator

Generate a PR_MESSAGE.md file summarizing the current session's work. Requires gh CLI authenticated with the target repository.

Prerequisite check

gh --version 2>/dev/null && gh auth status 2>/dev/null

If gh is not installed, stop and report:

  • Install from https://cli.github.com
  • gh cannot be installed via npm
  • After install, run gh auth login to authenticate

Do not proceed without a working, authenticated gh CLI.

Workflow

  1. Analyze session context — review changes made in the current session. Explore changed files with git diff and git status to understand the full scope of work, in addition to reviewing conversation history. Both sources inform the PR message.
  2. Detect issue number — use the issue detection algorithm below. If the user indicates there is no associated issue, omit the Closes #<issue-number> footer entirely.
  3. Determine commit type — based on the nature of changes (see references/pr-message-format.md for the list of types)
  4. Write PR_MESSAGE.md — using the format in references/pr-message-format.md
  5. Add to .gitignore — add PR_MESSAGE.md if not already present
  6. Validate — run commitlint and markdownlint checks

Issue number detection

The issue number MUST be determined by searching GitHub, NOT by extracting numbers from branch names.

Algorithm

# Step 1: Get branch name
BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)

# Step 2: Extract keywords (strip leading numbers and hyphens)
# Example: "125-greenops-equivalencies" → "greenops equivalencies"
KEYWORDS=$(echo "$BRANCH" | sed 's/^[0-9]*-//' | tr '-' ' ')

# Step 3: Search GitHub issues
gh issue list --search "$KEYWORDS" --state all \
  --json number,title --limit 5

Evaluation rules

  1. Exactly 1 result with title containing most keywords → use it
  2. 0 results → ask the user for the issue number
  3. 2+ results → show options and ask the user to pick
  4. Ambiguous match → ask the user to confirm

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 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. 2d ago First seen · 119 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 53f50f6c44a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pull-request-msg-with-gh is a skill published in the GitHub repository dirien/yet-another-agent-harness (20 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 976 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.

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