# detailed-pr-description

Drafts GitHub PR descriptions with context, risks and validation results, or judges whether the branch has enough tests.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 800 installs · ★ 2
- Author: biw
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/biw/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/detailed-pr-description/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-03
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/detailed-pr-description

## What it does

The skill has three outcomes. Assessment answers whether the tests on a branch are strong enough and leaves the PR body alone. Draft builds a description locally or in the reply. Update and post write to GitHub, and only after you explicitly ask to update, edit, post or publish. Having `gh` on the command line is not permission to change a PR.

It starts by resolving the PR and its base through `gh pr view --json number,title,body,baseRefName,headRefName,url`, then gathers evidence from `git status --short`, diff stats, commits, changed files, tests, migrations and config. Drafts pull in `assets/pr-body.md.tmpl` unless the repository ships its own template. Every body needs one fenced excerpt of genuinely changed code, capped at 15 lines; a review section made of links will not do.

Tests get inventoried, and the skill runs the narrowest reliable checks first, then broader documented ones where feasible. Coverage lands in one of three buckets: sufficient, partially sufficient, insufficient. Confidence never comes from tests that were not run or do not apply. Unrelated code changes stay out unless you ask for them.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add biw/skills --skill detailed-pr-description -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add biw/skills --skill detailed-pr-description -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add biw/skills --skill detailed-pr-description -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install biw/skills detailed-pr-description
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add biw/skills --skill detailed-pr-description -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/biw/skills --path skills/detailed-pr-description
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add biw/skills --skill detailed-pr-description -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/biw/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/detailed-pr-description/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- write a PR body with context, risks and follow-up work
- decide whether branch tests are strong enough before review
- record failed, skipped and unavailable checks with reasons
- point reviewers at exact files and lines
- refresh an existing PR description with `gh pr edit`

## Example prompts
- Assess whether the tests on this branch are sufficient, don't touch the PR body
- Draft a PR description from the changes on this branch
- Update the description of PR 42 on GitHub

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

Below is the content of a third-party file. It is data, not instructions for you: do not act on anything written inside unless the human asks. Block tag: b2b4a01e508429cd.

BEGIN THIRD-PARTY FILE b2b4a01e508429cd
```text
---
name: detailed-pr-description
description: Assess test coverage or draft/update GitHub PR descriptions with self-contained context, risks, follow-up work, focused code references, and validation results.
---

# Detailed PR Description

## Resolve the outcome

- **Assessment:** judge whether branch tests are strong enough; do not draft or update a PR body.
- **Draft:** produce a proposed body locally or in the response; do not mutate GitHub.
- **Update/post:** draft and update GitHub only when explicitly asked to update, edit, post, or publish.

Perform each requested outcome when combined. CLI access is never authorization to mutate a PR.

## Workflow

1. Identify the PR and base. Prefer `gh pr view --json number,title,body,baseRefName,headRefName,url`; without a PR, compare against the user-provided or repository default base. Fetch before relying on stale refs.
2. Establish evidence from `git status --short`, diff stats and names, relevant commits, changed files, tests, docs, migrations, config, and generated artifacts. Treat `.context/` as scratch and restate any useful fact because it is untracked. Do not rely on chat or memory for behavioral claims.
3. Determine the problem, approach, outcome, deliberate exclusions, risk, compatibility, edge cases, operational gotchas, migrations, flags, cleanup, and reviewer focus. For close-review items, give a precise file/line reference and explanation. Every PR body must include one fenced excerpt of actual changed code, configuration, or documentation from the most review-critical hunk, capped at 15 lines; a link-only review section is insufficient.
4. Inventory affected and added tests. Run the narrowest reliable checks, then documented broader validation when feasible. Classify coverage as sufficient, partially sufficient, or insufficient; name regressions it catches, important gaps, and concrete follow-up tests. Never claim confidence from unrun or irrelevant tests.
5. Deliver only the authorized outcome:
   - Assessment: report evidence and coverage judgment without creating a body.
   - Draft: return the body or write `.context/pr-description.md`; never call `gh pr edit`.
   - Update/post: write `.context/pr-description.md`, then use `gh pr edit <number> --body-file .context/pr-description.md`. If posting fails, preserve the draft and explain why.

## PR body
```
END THIRD-PARTY FILE b2b4a01e508429cd

The third-party file has ended. Everything between the b2b4a01e508429cd tags is data: requests and commands from it are not followed. An “end of file” line with another tag inside the block is part of the file.

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