# plate

Prepares finished local work for review: validates artifacts, stages files safely, creates commits, and publishes single pull requests or branch stacks.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 495 installs · ★ 19
- Author: paulnsorensen
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/paulnsorensen/easy-cheese/tree/HEAD/skills/plate/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/plate

## What it does

Plate finalizes local edits before code review begins. It checks changed files, runs test gates such as `just check`, stages strictly named paths instead of entire trees, and writes Conventional Commits. The workflow handles single branches as well as pull request stacks.

Tool routing relies on `python3 skills/plate/scripts/plate.pyz` to inspect available stack managers like Graphite, Git Town, and `gh stack`. Note the boundary: code reviews, GitHub issue triage, CI inspection, and repo configuration belong to the `gh` CLI, not `/plate`.

History rewrites, forced pushes, and target edits on protected branches will stop and demand explicit user confirmation.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add paulnsorensen/easy-cheese --skill plate -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add paulnsorensen/easy-cheese --skill plate -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add paulnsorensen/easy-cheese --skill plate -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install paulnsorensen/easy-cheese plate
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add paulnsorensen/easy-cheese --skill plate -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/paulnsorensen/easy-cheese --path skills/plate
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add paulnsorensen/easy-cheese --skill plate -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/paulnsorensen/easy-cheese/tree/HEAD/skills/plate/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- commit local changes using Conventional Commits
- open or update a pull request after running repository checks
- sync, restack, or publish a branch stack using Graphite or Git Town
- stage specific modified files while skipping temporary `.cheese/` reports

## Example prompts
- /plate commit these changes and open a pull request
- /plate sync and restack the current branch series
- Run /plate --hard to validate artifacts and publish

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: plate
description: >
  Turn finished local work into a commit, an ordinary pull request, or a pull request stack.
  Use this skill to commit changes or to publish a branch. Use it to open or update a pull request.
  Use it to create, sync, restack, or submit a pull request stack. You can also run /plate.
  This skill owns all staging, commits, pushes, pull request creation, and stack changes.
  GitHub inspection, reviews, comments, CI, issues, releases, and repository administration are outside this skill.
  Use the gh CLI directly for that work.
license: MIT
---

# /plate

Plate completes local work before review. It finishes required artifacts, validates, commits safely, and selects the correct publication path.

## Phase entry

Run `python3 skills/plate/scripts/plate.pyz wheypoint-resolve --ref <slug>`.
`authoritative` uses the record; its `working_context` is the first batched `tilth_read`.
`not-found` proceeds cold; `legacy` shows its source and slug, then proceeds.
`gated`, `ambiguous`, and `error` stop and show the payload.
Show advisory `stale-commit` and `grounded-path-missing` findings.

Plate resolves the slug and reads the result, but it does not commit a wheypoint revision or publish a wheypoint revision.

## Routing guard

Check ownership before you select a mode.
`/plate` owns staging, commits, pushes, ordinary pull request changes, and pull request stack changes.

- `/plate` never performs code-quality review. It never computes a review surface for its own sake. Review is `/age`.
- GitHub inspection, reviews, comments, CI, merges, issues, workflows, releases, search, and administration are outside `/plate`.
  Use the `gh` CLI directly when no local publication transaction is necessary.
  Use `/affinage` to act on pull request feedback or CI failures.
- A request that only reads or assesses GitHub or diff state leaves `/plate` before any mode is selected.
  Thus, routing it here is a plate-owned failure.
- Destructive deletion, history rewrites, unsafe force-pushes, and protected-branch changes require explicit user authorization.

## Classify, then load one reference

Classify every invocation into exactly one mode. Load one reference at a time. Do not read the others.

| Mode | Trigger | Load |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Commit-only | Save local work without publishing it | [`references/durable-writes.md`](references/durable-writes.md) |
| Topology preflight | Persist the new-PR layout before another workflow creates commits or branches | [`references/topology.md`](references/topology.md) |
| New PR | No PR exists for the branch and publication is requested | [`references/topology.md`](references/topology.md) |
| Existing PR | Update a PR while preserving its current topology | [`references/ordinary-pr.md`](references/ordinary-pr.md) |
| Stack maintenance | Create, sync, restack, submit, recover, or explicitly ship a stack | [`references/stacks.md`](references/stacks.md) |

Inspect a stack only as a step of a requested stack change. Route a stack inspection request without a requested change out of `/plate` to the `gh` CLI.
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