chained-pr

chained-pr is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai. It costs 32 tokens per session (696 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for splitting large or stacked pull requests into smaller, dependent review units. A pull request is a proposed code change for review, and stacked means later changes build on earlier ones.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for changes expected to exceed 400 changed lines, stacked pull requests, review slices, or work where reviewer workload needs to be controlled.
Why use it?
It keeps each review focused and limits the amount of code a reviewer must understand at once. It also defines how dependencies, branch targets, tests, and accidental unrelated changes should be handled.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

About the project

Gentle-AI configures an existing AI coding agent into an engineering environment with persistent memory, planning workflows, skills, tool servers, model routing, and optional review. Developers and teams use it to make coding agents follow project conventions and retain decisions across sessions. The catalogue entries are its skills, commands, agents, and instruction.

Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai · 6,301 stars · on GitHub · gentle-ai.gentlemanprogramming.com

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/gentleman-programming/gentle-ai/chained-pr
Any agent
npx skills add Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai --skill chained-pr
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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 chained-pr

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/gentleman-programming/gentle-ai/chained-pr"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/gentleman-programming/gentle-ai/chained-pr.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 696 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 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00696
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.00348
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00070

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0a4a031f7b16, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

chained-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 4d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

internal/assets/skills/chained-pr/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.

Activation Contract

Load this skill when a planned PR may exceed 400 changed lines, SDD forecasts 400-line budget risk: High or Chained PRs recommended: Yes, or the user asks for chained/stacked PRs, review slices, or reviewer-load control.

Hard Rules

  • Split PRs over 400 changed lines unless a maintainer explicitly accepts size:exception.
  • The budget constrains how work is sliced, never the code itself. Never delete comments, blank lines, docs, or tests, and never compress or restyle code, to fit under the budget.
  • Slicing is bounded: make one honest slicing pass. If no cohesive split brings every slice within budget, stop iterating, keep the best cohesive split, and report the final line count with a size:exception recommendation.
  • Keep each PR reviewable in about ≤60 minutes.
  • Use one deliverable work unit per PR; keep tests/docs with the unit they verify.
  • State start, end, prior dependencies, follow-up work, and out-of-scope items in every chained PR.
  • Every child PR must include a dependency diagram marking the current PR with 📍.
  • In Feature Branch Chain, create a draft/no-merge tracker PR; child PR #1 targets the tracker branch, later children target the immediate parent branch.
  • Treat polluted diffs as base bugs: retarget or rebase until only the current work unit appears.
  • Do not mix chain strategies after the user chooses one.

Decision Gates

Condition Action
PR ≤400 changed lines and focused Keep single PR.
PR >400, each slice can land independently Use Stacked PRs to main.
PR >400, feature must integrate before main Use Feature Branch Chain with tracker.
Generated/vendor/migration diff cannot split cleanly Ask maintainer for size:exception.
No cohesive split fits the budget after one slicing pass Stop; deliver the best split, report the overage and why it cannot shrink further, and recommend size:exception.
SDD provides delivery_strategy Follow it before apply/PR creation.

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. 4d ago Changed · +3 lines 0a4a031f7b16
  2. 6d ago First seen · 51 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 865f2e78db03

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chained-pr is a skill published in the GitHub repository Gentleman-Programming/gentle-ai (6,301 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 696 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.