Writing Pull Requests

Writing Pull Requests is a skill for Claude Code from notorious-ai/claude-plugins. It costs 58 tokens per session (2,793 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A writing guide for GitHub pull request titles and descriptions. It explains how to describe the motivation, impact, and context of a code change instead of repeating the diff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Writing pull request titles and descriptions, including changes linked to an issue or changes that need their own explanation.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers understand why a change is needed and what the repository will do after it is merged. It also avoids vague titles and descriptions that leave important context unstated.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the github-author plugin — 2 skills, 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Writing pull request titles and descriptions, including changes linked to an issue or changes that need their own explanation.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/notorious-ai/claude-plugins/writing-pull-requests
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 notorious-ai/claude-plugins --skill writing-pull-requests
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/notorious-ai/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install github-author, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 2 commands.

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.

agentmods badge for Writing Pull Requests

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/notorious-ai/claude-plugins/writing-pull-requests"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/notorious-ai/claude-plugins/writing-pull-requests.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,793 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.
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 $0.00058 $0.02793
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.01396
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00559
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00279

Measured 7d ago against content hash 2b690234a0dc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Writing Pull Requests 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 7d 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.

github-author/skills/writing-pull-requests/SKILL.md · 304 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 304 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Writing Pull Requests

Code diffs already show what changed, so retelling the diff in prose wastes the reader's time. The PR title and description convey motivation, impact, and context that accelerates review.

The problem space normally lives in a linked issue. When no issue exists, as for plenty of worthwhile changes, the description's opening paragraph stands in for one: a single paragraph carrying the friction and its cost is enough before the solution's story begins.

Core Principle: Repository Transformation

The PR title describes how the repository changes when the PR merges. The verb targets the repository capability, not the developer action.

The "Fill in the Blank" Technique

Complete this sentence with your title: "After this PR merges, the repository will _____."

The verb must make grammatical sense in this frame. Developer-action verbs fail the test:

Verb "The repository will _____" Works?
Parse MAC addresses "The repository will parse MAC addresses" Yes
Add rate limiting "The repository will add rate limiting" No
Handle nil emails "The repository will handle nil emails" Yes
Implement caching "The repository will implement caching" No

Developer-action verbs (add, implement, create, write, update, change) describe what the developer did. Repository-capability verbs (parse, handle, support, expose, enable, optimize, simplify, prevent, serialize, validate, extract) describe what the code does.

Quick Reference by Intent

Intent Verbs
New capability handle, parse, transform, validate, serialize, cache, pool
Improvement optimize, simplify, consolidate, enhance
Fix fix, correct, respect, prevent
Structural extract, expose, define, introduce
Removal remove, drop, deprecate
Configuration configure, enable, disable
Documentation explain, clarify, document

Read the full file on GitHub · 304 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 7d ago First seen · 304 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 2b690234a0dc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Writing Pull Requests is a skill published in the GitHub repository notorious-ai/claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 2,793 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.