write-pr-description

A guide for writing the body of a pull request, the request used to merge code changes into a shared repository. It covers the change summary, repository template sections, and guidance for reviewers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when creating or revising a pull request description, filling in a repository template, or updating a description after the branch changes.
Why use it?
It helps reviewers understand why the change was made, what it affects, and where to focus, instead of making them infer that from the code diff alone.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/warpdotdev/common-skills/write-pr-description
Any agent
npx skills add warpdotdev/common-skills --skill write-pr-description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/warpdotdev/common-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 99 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,348 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00099 $0.03348
Opus 5 $0.00049 $0.01674
Sonnet 5 $0.00020 $0.00670
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00335

Measured 2d ago against content hash 1c5471949eda, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

write-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 2d 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.

.agents/skills/write-pr-description/SKILL.md · 279 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 279 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

write-pr-description

A pull request description has one job: give the reviewer what the diff cannot.

The diff already states what changed. The description states why it changed, what it affects, which decisions were made along the way, and where the author wants attention. Everything below follows from that. When a rule here conflicts with what a specific reviewer needs, serve the reviewer.

create-pr covers the mechanics of opening the PR. This skill covers what goes in the body.

1. Collect the facts before drafting

Usually you did the work and already know most of this. When you are describing a branch you did not write, or a PR you have just been handed, start here.

# From a checkout of the branch
git --no-pager log <base>..HEAD            # commit bodies first, they carry the why
git --no-pager diff <base>...HEAD --stat

# From a PR number, with no local branch
gh pr view <n> --repo <owner/repo> --json title,commits,files,baseRefName
gh pr diff <n> --repo <owner/repo>

Read the commit bodies before the diff. They are usually the richest source of motivation. Then verify what they claim: a commit message saying "matches the existing pattern in this file" is an assertion about code, and it is often wrong. Do not forward a claim you have not checked.

Verify by looking, not by reasoning. The checks worth making are cheap and specific:

  • Read what the change deletes. When a change exists to fix something, the defect is usually visible in the removed code.
  • Ask the system what a thing means, rather than inferring it: gcloud iam roles describe for a role's permission set, the provider or API schema for a resource's fields, the parser for what a marker does.
  • Grep a flag across the environment files before claiming it is on or off.
  • Open the file a comment or commit message points at, and confirm it says what the pointer claims.

One check of this kind usually produces the best sentence in the description.

Gather what the diff cannot tell the reviewer:

Read the full file on GitHub · 279 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. 2d ago First seen · 279 lines · 99 tokens per session scan A 1c5471949eda

Subscribe to this mod's changes

write-pr-description is a skill published in the GitHub repository warpdotdev/common-skills (413 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 99 tokens to every session and 3,348 once invoked, about $0.0005 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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