babysit

babysit is a skill for Claude Code from ericlitman/open-pstack. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,086 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of babysit, MIT.

An automated way to watch an open pull request, which is a proposed code change, until it is ready to merge.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for checking pull-request status, resolving merge conflicts, fixing failing checks, and addressing straightforward review comments.
Why use it?
It removes the need to repeatedly check CI, the automated build and test checks, and handle simple review feedback yourself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the pstack plugin — 61 skills, 22 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It is for checking pull-request status, resolving merge conflicts, fixing failing checks, and addressing straightforward review comments.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ericlitman/open-pstack/babysit
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 ericlitman/open-pstack --skill babysit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ericlitman/open-pstack

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 61 skills, 22 agents, 1 hook.

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.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,086 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00061 $0.01086
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00434
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00217
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c0d4d1406338, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

babysit 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 1mo 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to babysit — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

plugins/pstack/skills/babysit/SKILL.md · 63 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 63 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Babysit a PR

Claude Code analog of Cursor's built-in /babysit. The implementation is a loop over gh CLI plus the Claude Code loop skill for pacing.

Platform note. On Codex or another non-Claude runtime, the Claude tool names and Claude built-in skills named below (loop, AskUserQuestion) are Claude defaults. Resolve them via codex-tools.md.

Inside poteto-mode, the Babysit playbook (../poteto-mode/playbooks/babysit.md) supersedes this skill: it owns mode declaration, the merge frontier, stack safety, and the watch-pr watcher. This skill stays the standalone /babysit entry point for a single PR outside a poteto-mode run.

When to use

  • There's an open PR and the user explicitly wants it kept green, and you are not already inside a poteto-mode run (the playbook owns that case).
  • The user invokes /babysit directly.
  • A subagent that opens a PR does NOT babysit — return to the parent and let the parent decide.

Steps

  1. Fetch PR state.

    gh pr view <number> --json number,title,state,mergeable,reviewDecision,statusCheckRollup,mergeStateStatus,comments,reviews
    
  2. Triage in priority order.

    • Merge conflicts (mergeStateStatus == DIRTY): rebase or merge main; resolve; force-push only if the branch is yours and not shared.
    • Failing checks (statusCheckRollup entries with conclusion: FAILURE): pull logs with gh run view <run-id> --log-failed. Root-cause the failure; fix the underlying code or test; commit; push.
    • Review comments from human reviewers (gh pr view --json comments,reviews): act only on feedback you actually agree with. When a comment has a single mechanical answer — a rename, a guard clause, a formatting nit — make the edit and quote the comment in the commit message. When it hinges on a judgement call, or you can't tell what's being asked, don't guess: leave it and reply with what you would have done.
    • Review-bot comments (Bugbot and similar automation): classify as fix, dismiss, or ask before acting, per ../poteto-mode/references/bugbot-triage.md. Follow the rubric's Ask by default categories, including security, data, and high-severity findings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 63 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. 1mo ago First seen · 63 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A c0d4d1406338

Subscribe to this mod's changes

babysit is a skill published in the GitHub repository ericlitman/open-pstack (427 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,086 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to babysit, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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