pr-loop-lifecycle

A start-and-finish procedure for an automated pull-request review cycle, including temporary permissions, isolated workspaces, and cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it inside automated pull-request loops to prepare the workspace, tear it down, and revoke project permissions.
Why use it?
It ensures the cycle opens with the access it needs and closes by removing that access and reporting the result.

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/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env/pr-loop-lifecycle
Any agent
npx skills add jl-cmd/claude-dev-env --skill pr-loop-lifecycle
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jl-cmd/claude-dev-env

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 80 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,204 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00080 $0.01204
Opus 5 $0.00040 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00120

Measured 2d ago against content hash 59733f8e6b40, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

pr-loop-lifecycle scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

The script writes idempotent allow-rules and `additionalDirectories` entries into `~/.claude/settings.json` so subagents can edit the project's `.claude/` tree without prompting.
packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills-archived/pr-loop-lifecycle/SKILL.md · 70 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 70 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

PR Loop Lifecycle

Core principle: a PR-loop run opens with an explicit, revocable permission grant and closes the same way every time — teardown, description rewrite, revoke, report — no matter how the run ended.

How callers invoke this

  • Skill-capable contexts (a lead session with the Skill tool): Skill({skill: "pr-loop-lifecycle", args: "--skill <caller> <open|close> [parameters]"}).
  • Fallback (a subagent or teammate without the Skill tool): the caller's spawn prompt says "Read ~/.claude/skills/pr-loop-lifecycle/SKILL.md and apply the <open|close> section with the parameters below."

The caller passes its identity (fills the final-report header and scratch-file prefix), whether it runs an agent team (gates the TeamDelete step), and at close time the run's exit reason, loop count, and SHAs.

Open

  1. Grant project permissions: python "$HOME/.claude/_shared/pr-loop/scripts/grant_project_claude_permissions.py" The script writes idempotent allow-rules and additionalDirectories entries into ~/.claude/settings.json so subagents can edit the project's .claude/ tree without prompting.

    Auto-mode escalation: in an unattended run the permission classifier can block this grant as an unrequested allowlist change. Keep the run alive — surface the exact command to the user through AskUserQuestion and ask them to approve it or run it themselves with the ! prefix. Continue once the grant lands. A user who wants future runs to skip the prompt can add a standing Bash allow-rule for the script in their settings.

  2. Worktree preflight: confirm the session is isolated (the working directory path includes .claude/worktrees/) before the first tick or round. Classify the working tree against the PR's repo with python "$HOME/.claude/skills/_shared/pr-loop/scripts/preflight_worktree.py" --owner <O> --repo <R> --mode <classify|strict> and route per the caller's cwd-routing reference (pr-converge Step 1.5 for the classify route; autoconverge pre-flight for the strict route). Capture the session worktree path before routing away — close-time steps target the session repo.

Read the full file on GitHub · 70 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 · 70 lines · 80 tokens per session scan B 59733f8e6b40

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pr-loop-lifecycle is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 80 tokens to every session and 1,204 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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