pr-description

pr-description is a skill for Claude Code from ShivaeDev/pardes. It costs 45 tokens per session (368 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A format for writing pull-request descriptions, where a pull request is a proposed code change sent for review. It organizes the explanation into Why, How, Decisions, and Callouts so reviewers can understand the change quickly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when opening or rewriting a pull request to explain why the change exists, how it works, which trade-offs were made, and what reviewers should inspect closely.
Why use it?
It removes filler and makes the problem, approach, important choices, and areas needing extra attention easy to find.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the pr-description plugin — 1 skill shipped together

Good fit Use it when opening or rewriting a pull request to explain why the change exists, how it works, which trade-offs were made, and what reviewers should inspect closely.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/shivaedev/pardes/pr-description
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 ShivaeDev/pardes --skill pr-description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ShivaeDev/pardes

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install pr-description, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill.

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 pr-description

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shivaedev/pardes/pr-description/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/shivaedev/pardes/pr-description)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shivaedev/pardes/pr-description"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shivaedev/pardes/pr-description/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 pr-description

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/shivaedev/pardes/pr-description"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/shivaedev/pardes/pr-description.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 368 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 $0.00045 $0.00368
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00147
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00074
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00037

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 0b5e323d92a0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

pr-description 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 2mo 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/pr-description/skills/pr-description/SKILL.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

pr-description

A good PR description answers three things fast: why does this exist, what did it do, and what should I look at? Use this exact structure, and keep every section short — a reviewer should grasp the change in under a minute.

Title

Meaningful, and about impact — what the change does for the product or system, not how it's implemented. Never a branch name, a file path, or "fix stuff".

Body

Why?

1–3 sentences: the actual problem or motivation. Pull it from the real context; don't invent one. If you genuinely don't know why, find out before opening the PR.

How?

1–2 sentences: a short technical summary for a technical reader — the approach, not a file-by-file walkthrough.

Decisions

One bullet per meaningful tradeoff, abandoned alternative, or scope choice — each with the reason. N/A if there were none.

Callouts

One bullet per spot a reviewer should look harder at — risky surfaces, things that look innocuous but have knock-on effects, one-way doors. Callouts — N/A if everything is straightforward.

Never include

  • Files-changed lists — the diff already shows them.
  • Test plans or "how I tested" narration.
  • Risk speculation and hedging.
  • Diff narration — restating the code change in prose.

That's it: an honest title, four short sections, and nothing the diff already says.

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. 2mo ago First seen · 41 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 0b5e323d92a0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

pr-description is a skill published in the GitHub repository ShivaeDev/pardes (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 368 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 2026-08-31.