babysit

babysit is a skill for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 61 tokens per session (1,091 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for watching an open pull request, which is a proposed code change waiting for review and merging. It handles failing checks and straightforward review comments until the request is ready to merge.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after opening a pull request to check its status, fix CI failures, address simple review feedback, and move it toward a mergeable state.
Why use it?
It reduces the need to repeatedly monitor the pull request and respond to routine problems yourself.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions subagents; names the AskUserQuestion tool; mentions Claude Code.

Part of the pstack plugin — 69 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it after opening a pull request to check its status, fix CI failures, address simple review feedback, and move it toward a mergeable state.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/babysit
About the project

pstack-claude is a set of opinionated coding-agent skills and workflows ported from Cursor to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, and other agent harnesses. It guides agents toward concise, simple, and verified code by routing goals to suitable workflows and supporting subagent tools. The catalogue entries are the project's skills, agents, hook, and plugin implementations for these agent environments.

michael-denyer/pstack-claude · 3,082 stars · on GitHub

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 michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill babysit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pstack, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 69 skills, 4 agents, 1 hook.

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
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 61 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,091 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
  • Socket pass 7 Sept 2026
  • Snyk warn 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 $0.00061 $0.01091
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00436
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00218
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00109

Measured 14d ago against content hash c951a7eba44b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

babysit 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 14d 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:

  • babysit — 91% identical, 16 lines differ
plugins/pstack/skills/babysit/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Babysit a PR

On Codex, read the platform mapping, including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On GitHub Copilot, read the platform mapping, including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

Claude Code analog of Cursor's built-in /babysit. The implementation is a loop over gh CLI plus the Claude Code loop skill for pacing.

Inside poteto-mode, the Babysit playbook (../poteto-mode/playbooks/babysit.md) supersedes this skill: it owns mode declaration, the merge frontier, stack safety, and the watch-pr watcher. This skill stays the standalone /babysit entry point for a single PR outside a poteto-mode run.

When to use

  • There's an open PR and the user explicitly wants it kept green, and you are not already inside a poteto-mode run (the playbook owns that case).
  • The user invokes /babysit directly.
  • A subagent that opens a PR does NOT babysit — return to the parent and let the parent decide.

Steps

  1. Fetch PR state.

    gh pr view <number> --json number,title,state,mergeable,reviewDecision,statusCheckRollup,mergeStateStatus,comments,reviews
    
  2. Triage in priority order.

    • Merge conflicts (mergeStateStatus == DIRTY): run the fix-merge-conflicts skill. Force-push only if the branch is yours and not shared.
    • Failing checks (statusCheckRollup entries with conclusion: FAILURE): run the fix-ci skill. Root-cause the failure; fix the underlying code or test; commit; push.
    • Review comments: run the get-pr-comments skill for the summary, then act only on feedback you actually agree with. When a comment has a single mechanical answer — a rename, a guard clause, a formatting nit — make the edit and quote the comment in the commit message. When it hinges on a judgement call, or you can't tell what's being asked, don't guess: leave it and reply with what you would have done.
    • Review-bot comments (Bugbot and similar automation): classify fix/dismiss/ask before acting, per bugbot-triage.md. Ask by default on security, data, and high-severity findings.

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 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. 14d ago Changed · +2 lines c951a7eba44b
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -1 lines 97ec7c67a833
  3. 1mo ago Changed 25804920e164
  4. 1mo ago First seen · 64 lines · 61 tokens per session scan A b43e6eac43d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

babysit is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (3,082 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 61 tokens to every session and 1,091 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.