approve-merge

approve-merge is a skill for Claude Code from me2resh/apexyard. It costs 33 tokens per session (6,104 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow that records approval for one specifically named pull request or merge request and then merges it. A pull request is a proposed set of code changes for review.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it only after explicit approval of a particular pull request or merge request, to record that approval and perform the merge.
Why use it?
It prevents a general instruction such as “go” from being treated as approval to merge unrelated code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Use it only after explicit approval of a particular pull request or merge request, to record that approval and perform the merge.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-merge
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 me2resh/apexyard --skill approve-merge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/me2resh/apexyard

Made for: Claude Code.

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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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-merge/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-merge)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-merge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-merge/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for approve-merge

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-merge"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/me2resh/apexyard/approve-merge.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 33 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,104 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 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 $0.00033 $0.06104
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.03052
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01221
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00610

Measured 10d ago against content hash 4265b88491fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

approve-merge 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (tests/test_merge_invocation_not_substituted.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/approve-merge/SKILL.md · 360 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 360 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/approve-merge — Record CEO Approval and Merge

Writes a structured marker at .claude/session/reviews/<owner>__<repo>__<pr>-ceo.approved (repo-qualified path, see AgDR-0060), then runs the merge (gh pr merge <pr> --squash --delete-branch, or the glab mr merge equivalent on a GitLab-forge project) in the same turn via tracker_pr_merge — the tracker-agnostic merge adapter in _lib-tracker.sh (#759, mirrors tracker_review_submit from #758). The marker contains required key/value fields (not just a bare SHA) so a raw echo SHA > file from the model is mechanically rejected by block-unreviewed-merge.sh.

This is the mechanical enforcement of the "plan-level 'go' is not merge approval" rule in .claude/rules/pr-workflow.md. The load-bearing semantic is "every merge needs an explicit per-PR approval", not "every merge needs two user messages."

The one rule you must not break

INVOKE THIS SKILL ONLY ON EXPLICIT, PER-PR, USER-NAMED MERGE APPROVAL.

The valid invocation triggers look like this:

  • "approved" / "approve" / "merge" / "merge it" / "ship it" / "go ahead and merge" — if and only if the surrounding context clearly names a specific PR and the PR being asked about is known.
  • "PR #42 is approved" / "yes, merge #42" / "ship #42" — names the PR.
  • A reply to your own "Ready to merge PR #42 — approved?" message that consists of any affirmative token — because you just named the PR and the user is responding to that specific question.

Invalid triggers (do NOT run this skill):

  • "go" / "continue" / "proceed" / "execute the plan" / "ship it" — when these are said in response to a plan that happens to include a merge step but is not specifically about the merge. This is the exact failure mode this skill exists to prevent. See the example in .claude/rules/pr-workflow.md § "Plan-level 'go' is NOT merge approval".
  • "yes" / "ok" / "sure" — if you cannot point at a specific "Ready to merge PR #X?" question in the last two turns of conversation, these are too ambiguous.
  • Your own inference that "the user probably wants the merge now because they said 'go' on the plan." NO. Stop and ask explicitly.

Read the full file on GitHub · 360 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. 10d ago First seen · 360 lines · 33 tokens per session scan A 4265b88491fe

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approve-merge is a skill published in the GitHub repository me2resh/apexyard (498 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 33 tokens to every session and 6,104 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.

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