# ce-babysit-pr

Monitors an open GitHub pull request over time, resolving review comments and handling CI failures until merge-ready.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 846 installs · ★ 25714
- Author: EveryInc
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/ce-babysit-pr/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
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## What it does

This skill runs a continuous monitoring loop on an open GitHub or GitHub Enterprise pull request. It relies on the bundled `pr-snapshot` utility to inspect state on each tick. Incoming review comments go directly to `ce-resolve-pr-feedback`, while broken CI checks are handed to `ce-debug`.

The agent commits fixes, pushes branches, and resolves discussion threads on its own. Under standard `target` posture, it stops once the PR looks ready and never executes a merge. Only the explicit `stack-land` mode authorizes landing stacked branches via `gh stack merge`.

The run requires a working GitHub CLI session where `gh repo view` succeeds, alongside write access to the checked-out branch. If push access is missing or the local branch is dirty, the skill halts immediately.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-babysit-pr -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/ce-babysit-pr/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/ce-babysit-pr/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-babysit-pr -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/ce-babysit-pr/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-babysit-pr -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/ce-babysit-pr/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin ce-babysit-pr
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/ce-babysit-pr/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-babysit-pr -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --path skills/ce-babysit-pr
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/ce-babysit-pr/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin --skill ce-babysit-pr -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin/tree/HEAD/skills/ce-babysit-pr/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- keep a long-running PR moving toward ready state
- dispatch review threads to automated fix routines
- route broken CI checks to debug agents without manual oversight
- sync stacked pull requests across branch updates

## Example prompts
- Watch the current PR until checks pass: ce-babysit-pr watch target
- Babysit PR #142 for the next hour: ce-babysit-pr 142 watch 1h target
- Process this stacked PR and land it when tests turn green: ce-babysit-pr stack-land

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: ce-babysit-pr
description: "Babysits an open GitHub PR until merge-ready. Use when asked to watch a PR over time — not for one-shot comment resolution or one CI failure. GitHub (incl. Enterprise) only."
argument-hint: "[PR number|URL|blank=current branch] [watch|checkpoint] [duration] [posture:target|stack-ready|stack-land]"
---

# Babysit a PR

Keep an open PR moving toward merge by reacting to three streams as each arrives: review comments (handed to `ce-resolve-pr-feedback`), CI failures (handed to `ce-debug`), and branch-currency items the snapshot flags.

**Outcome:** the PR is left at a truthfully reported terminal, looks-ready, blocked, or out-of-budget state under the run's posture. **Done:** Step 3 (stop conditions) reached a true stop and the Step 4 report is written. Settled ≠ merged.

**What each tick looks at and every change it makes come from the bundled `pr-snapshot` output — never by prose, events you notice, or a coordinator's say-so** (readiness also applies the review judgment in `references/settle.md`, which reads live state this output does not model). Read `references/tick.md` before the first snapshot; `references/envelope.md` states the full boundaries.

## Posture (one value per run)

- `target` — only the named PR; stop at looks-ready; never merges; offer stack-wide once if a confirmed managed stack needs work.
- `stack-ready` — once a layer has zero actionable backlog (CI may still run), advance to the next open non-draft upstack layer needing work; lower layers stay probed and the lowest that re-opens pulls the walk back; never merges.
- `stack-land` — as `stack-ready`, and selecting it **is** land authorization: once the bottom-most open layer is settled, `gh stack merge` it + `gh stack sync`.

One PR named → `target` (ask once if a confirmed multi-layer stack exists); asked to carry the whole stack → `stack-ready`; asked to land it → `stack-land`. `mode:pipeline` never asks. Restate posture per transition.

## Non-negotiable boundaries

- **Merge-readiness is never merge authorization** except under `stack-land`.
- **Branch currency is consumption-only.** A base-into-head update happens only for the exact `branch_currency` item the snapshot emitted — `BEHIND`, `DIRTY`, a branch-protection requirement, or an explicit always-current policy — after an atomic claim, per `references/branch-currency.md` (`BEHIND` = host `update-branch` with `expected_head_sha`, never a local merge). Never infer an item from prose, base movement, a sibling PR merging, `CLEAN`/`MERGEABLE`, `BLOCKED` while your own push's checks rerun, or anyone saying "update the branch"; a push that restarts green CI without a claimed item is a defect.
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