# pr-flow

Walks a task from issue to pull request and closes it after merge: branch, DCO signoff, pre-push gate, Copilot review.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · ★ 91547
- Author: modelcontextprotocol
- License: Apache-2.0 · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/pr-flow/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/pr-flow

## What it does

This skill spells out the contribution procedure for the `modelcontextprotocol/servers` repo. It starts from an issue, cuts a `v2/<type>/<N>-<slug>` branch off `origin/v2/main` inside a fresh git worktree, and expects every commit to carry a signoff via `git commit -s`. The branch type follows the issue label: `bug` becomes `fix`, `enhancement` becomes `feat`, `documentation` becomes `docs`, `chore` stays `chore`.

The rules the procedure carries out live in `AGENTS.md` — Contributing, issue-driven work style, responding to code reviews. Board mechanics sit in `/board-ops`, and `/issue-create` handles a missing issue. The skill file itself names board columns and nothing more.

One hard limit: pull requests against this repo are opened by maintainers only. Write access is not authorization to open one, so an outside contributor files a detailed issue and a maintainer takes it from there. Another trap worth knowing — `git config format.signOff true` does nothing here, because `git commit` never reads that setting. If the session's own instructions came back stale, the skill says stop; a fresh branch does not refresh the rules already loaded.

## Requirements
- Works with: GitHub

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill pr-flow -a claude-code
```

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

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill pr-flow -a codex
```

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

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill pr-flow -a cursor
```

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install modelcontextprotocol/servers pr-flow
```

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

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill pr-flow -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/modelcontextprotocol/servers --path .claude/skills/pr-flow
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add modelcontextprotocol/servers --skill pr-flow -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/modelcontextprotocol/servers/tree/HEAD/.claude/skills/pr-flow/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- take an issue through to a pull request
- name a branch from the issue type and number
- repair a missing Signed-off-by trailer
- request a Copilot review and decide on another round
- close out the work after merge

## Example prompts
- take issue #4810 through to a PR with pr-flow
- cut the branch for this task and sign off the commits
- request a Copilot review and answer its comments

## Source text · SKILL.md · Apache-2.0

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name: pr-flow
description: "Take an issue through to a PR in this repo and close it out after merge. Use when asked to open, create or submit a PR; when naming a branch; when signing off commits or repairing a missing Signed-off-by; when recording client evidence for a PR; when requesting a Copilot review, answering its comments or deciding whether to run another round; or when closing out after a merge."
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# PR flow

The rules this procedure carries out live in [`AGENTS.md`](../../../AGENTS.md)
(**Contributing**, **Issue-driven work style**, **Responding to code reviews**,
**Waiting on long-running work**). Board mechanics, including every board ID,
are in `/board-ops`; creating a missing issue is `/issue-create`. This file names
board columns and nothing else.

**Pull requests against this repo are opened by the maintainers only.** Write
access is not authorization to open one. Anyone else files a detailed issue
(`/issue-create`) and a maintainer takes it from there.

## 1. Start from an issue

**Every PR closes an issue.** A PR with no linked issue has no board card, so
the work is invisible to the board. If there is no issue yet, create one first
with `/issue-create`; never open the PR and backfill.

**Read the issue in full, every comment included.** Scope changes, maintainer
decisions and "not this, that" corrections are usually in the comments, not the
body:

```sh
gh issue view <N> --repo modelcontextprotocol/servers --comments
```

Then assign it to yourself and move its card to **In Progress** (the
move-a-card recipe in `/board-ops`):

```sh
gh issue edit <N> --repo modelcontextprotocol/servers --add-assignee @me
```

## 2. Branch

`v2/<type>/<N>-<slug>`, cut from **`origin/v2/main`** into a **new git
worktree**, never by switching branches in the primary checkout. The rule, and
the check that this session's own instructions are current, is `AGENTS.md`
**Issue-driven work style** (all work in a worktree freshly cut from
`origin/v2/main`). If that check, or the `SessionStart` hook, said `STALE`,
stop here: a fresh branch does not refresh the rules this session loaded.

Run it from the primary checkout. The worktree is a **sibling** directory named
for the checkout plus the issue number (`servers` → `../servers-4810`), never a
directory inside the repo, where every format, lint and typecheck scope would
see a second copy of the source:

```sh
git fetch origin v2/main
git worktree add --no-track "../$(basename "$PWD")-4810" \
  -b v2/fix/4810-filesystem-symlink-escape origin/v2/main
cd "../$(basename "$PWD")-4810"
npm install
```

- `--no-track` keeps the new branch from tracking `origin/v2/main`, so
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