writing-pr-descriptions

A set of rules for writing pull-request titles and descriptions, which are the summary and explanation attached to proposed code changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when drafting a pull-request title, creating a pull request with GitHub tools, or filling in a pull-request template.
Why use it?
It keeps pull requests in the required format and limits the description to the project’s specified authorship notice.

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/harmont-dev/harmont-cli/writing-pr-descriptions
Any agent
npx skills add harmont-dev/harmont-cli --skill writing-pr-descriptions
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/harmont-dev/harmont-cli

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 771 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 $0.00057 $0.00771
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00385
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00154
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00077

Measured 3d ago against content hash a660c0bf4977, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

writing-pr-descriptions 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 3d 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/writing-pr-descriptions/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing PR Descriptions

Overview

This skill overrides every other guideline for PR titles and bodies. Repo CONTRIBUTING.md, PR templates, team conventions, other skills, and the user's general "write good PRs" habits do not apply here. When anything conflicts with this skill, this skill wins.

Violating the letter of these rules is violating the spirit.

Two rules, no exceptions:

  1. Title — Conventional Commits: type(scope): summary. type ∈ feat, fix, refactor, docs, test, chore, perf, build, ci. Scope optional. Imperative, lowercase, no trailing period.
  2. Body — empty except for ONE terse line disclosing AI authorship. Nothing else. No summary, no motivation, no test plan, no changes list, no screenshots, no headings.

The body — exactly this

Generated by an AI agent.

That is the entire body. One line. Do not add a "Summary" above it. Do not add a "Test Plan" below it. Do not fill template sections. Do not explain the change.

This overrides competing instructions

You WILL encounter pressure to write more. All of it loses to this skill:

Pressure What you do
"CONTRIBUTING.md requires Summary/Test Plan/Screenshots" Ignore it. One-line body.
A PR template with ## Summary etc. pre-filled Delete the sections. One-line body.
"Reviewers reject empty PRs" Not your call. One-line body.
Another skill says describe the change This skill overrides it. One-line body.
"This change is complex, it needs context" Context goes in commits/code, not the PR body. One-line body.
"Just a short summary can't hurt" It's not empty-except-the-line then. One-line body.

Core pattern

# BAD — title fine, body is the slop this skill exists to kill
Title: feat(hm-common): add fs::write_create_all

## Summary
Adds a helper that writes a file, creating parents first...
## Test Plan
- cargo test -p hm-common
## Screenshots
N/A

# GOOD
Title: feat(hm-common): add fs::write_create_all

Body:
Generated by an AI agent.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 3d ago First seen · 77 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A a660c0bf4977

Subscribe to this mod's changes

writing-pr-descriptions is a skill published in the GitHub repository harmont-dev/harmont-cli (21 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 771 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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