gate-and-merge

gate-and-merge is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 41 tokens per session (2,847 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guided workflow for landing several open GitHub pull requests, which are proposed code changes for review. It checks each change, handles review feedback, and then merges, repairs, holds, or closes it with human approval.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process a merge queue or stack of pull requests, including root-cause fixes, review replies, branch updates, and controlled merges or closures.
Why use it?
It prevents a queue of related pull requests from being merged blindly or left in an unclear state when one needs fixes or review is incomplete.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the odin-git plugin — 46 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to process a merge queue or stack of pull requests, including root-cause fixes, review replies, branch updates, and controlled merges or closures.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/gate-and-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 OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill gate-and-merge
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin-git, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 46 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,847 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 $0.00041 $0.02847
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01424
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00569
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00285

Measured 6d ago against content hash 920135bd9f20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gate-and-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 6d 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.

plugins/odin-git/skills/gate-and-merge/SKILL.md · 145 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 145 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Gate and merge

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger A set of open PRs needs landing together; the user says "land these PRs", "merge the stack", "clear the PR queue", or names a merge train.
Authority Remote: merges, repairs, pushes to, and closes pull requests on GitHub; requires explicit human invocation. The human authorizes the queue once before the first merge, authorizes every push to a branch they do not own, and says yes once to the previewed close set.
Side effect Root-cause repair commits pushed to PR head branches, review-thread replies and resolutions, PR review comments for unresolved findings, PR closures carrying a rationale comment, and stack merges on GitHub. No merge on a pending or pre-fix head.
Done Every PR reached one of merge, repair, hold, or close; one line per PR; no merge on a pending or pre-fix oid.

Not for

  • Single-PR feedback with no merge: use resolve-pr-feedback. This skill sweeps feedback only as part of landing a queue.
  • Gate-only evaluation with no merge: use gate-proposed-change.
  • Review-only passes: this skill lands PRs.

Neither this skill nor resolve-pr-feedback can invoke the other, because both are disable-model-invocation: true. That is why the sweep reaches the sibling's scripts by path rather than firing the sibling skill.

Inputs

  • The set of open PRs to land, supplied by the user as numbers, a stack, or "the queue". Required.
  • One yes from the user before the first merge. Required.
  • One yes from the user covering the previewed close set. Required before any close.
  • Per-push authorization from the user for any branch the user does not own. Required when applicable.
  • OWNER/REPO when the queue is not the current repository. Optional; the two read-only sweep scripts take it, and the two thread-mutating ones need no repository argument.
  • A gate override, if any, must name both the gate and the PR; a blanket skip is refused.

Procedure

Run one serial loop: gate a PR, act on its findings, reach its terminal, move to the next. Serial because every merge changes the base the next PR is gated against.

Read the full file on GitHub · 145 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 6d ago First seen · 145 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 920135bd9f20

Subscribe to this mod's changes

gate-and-merge is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (36 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 2,847 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 2026-09-06.

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