pr-refinement

A workflow for improving an existing GitHub pull request by reviewing where reusable code belongs, checking names, simplifying the changes, and choosing the right delivery size. A pull request is a proposed set of code changes for review and merging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing pull-request structure, moving shared behavior into common code, choosing capability-based names, splitting independent changes, and preparing a tested pull-request stack.
Why use it?
It reduces tangled reviews when a change mixes architectural cleanup, naming problems, and unrelated work. It can keep one focused pull request or divide the work into dependent smaller ones.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 433 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 $0.00051 $0.00433
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.00217
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00087
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash e8f352c46e8e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pr-refinement 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.

packages/claude-dev-env/.agents/skills/pr-refinement/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

PR Refinement

Turn audit findings into a focused existing pull-request update or a required dependency-ordered GitHub pull-request stack.

Peer skills

  1. Run pr-shared-extraction for reusable-code placement, canonical shared homes, and extraction findings.
  2. Run pr-name-by-capability for module, symbol, path, branch, and pull-request naming findings.
  3. Use pr-small-cl to divide approved fixes into coherent, independently reviewable pull requests.

The peer skills own their audit rules and finding priorities.

Workflow

  1. Run both audits in parallel against the same pull request. Keep their findings, locations, priorities, destinations, API directions, and naming directions.
  2. Build one change map. Group findings by shared capability and dependency.
  3. Use pr-small-cl to choose the delivery shape. Update the existing pull request when it remains one coherent, reviewable outcome.
  4. Create a replacement pull-request stack when the focused-change review identifies independent increments. Give each pull request one coherent outcome, related tests, a clear verification boundary, and a capability-oriented branch and title. Close the original pull request as superseded and link the replacement stack.
  5. Implement the existing pull request or the replacement stack in dependency order. Earlier pull requests create stable shared foundations. Later pull requests migrate consumers and remove replaced code.
  6. Run scoped production-path tests for each pull request. Record commands and results.
  7. Commit and push each branch. Update the existing pull request, or open draft replacement pull requests in stack order and set every child pull request base to its parent.
  8. Include scope, verification, risks, and stack dependencies in every pull-request body.

Completion

Deliver a focused, tested, pushed existing pull request, or a replacement stack with explicit parent-child links. Keep merge authority with the user.

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 · 32 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A e8f352c46e8e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pr-refinement is a skill published in the GitHub repository jl-cmd/claude-dev-env (6 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 433 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 2026-08-31.

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