Ship It
Input: a PR number or URL, or nothing — then use the current branch's PR (gh pr view with no
argument resolves it). If the current branch has no PR yet, push it and open one with
gh pr create (maintainer branch only), then continue. Goal: the PR merged with every code-review finding fixed and CI green.
0b. A figure in the description, when the change has a shape
If the PR changes how something flows — a request path, a background job, what a feature does step
by step — a picture explains it faster than the diff does. Use the figure skill: write a JSON
spec, render one animated SVG, and put it at the top of the PR description. It plays in the
description with no upload and no click.
Reference it by commit SHA, not branch name, or the image dies when the branch is deleted at
merge: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/<owner>/<repo>/<sha>/<path>.svg. If the SVG is not part
of the change itself, don't commit it to the repo — render it, commit it on the PR branch only if it
belongs there, and otherwise keep the description's image pinned to the commit that carried it.
Skip it for a fix with no shape: a one-line guard, a dependency bump, a typo.
0. Blocker rule (applies at every step)
A blocker is a finding whose fix would go against the PR's goal — the code-review principles say the thing the PR sets out to do is wrong (e.g. the PR's whole point is a raw-SQL handler, a new advisory lock, a tuple-returning API, a test that asserts via SQL, dropping bank scoping), or fixing it would mean rewriting/removing the feature rather than polishing it.
On a blocker: stop immediately. Don't push, don't merge, don't partially fix. Tell the user
what the PR is trying to do, which principle it conflicts with (quote the code-review section),
and the options you see — then ask for confirmation with AskUserQuestion. Resume only on an explicit answer.
Everything else (must fix, should fix, nits) is not a blocker: fix it all.
1. Load the PR
Read the PR — title, body, linked issue, diff — so you know its goal; the blocker rule depends on it.
If it's CONFLICTING, rebase onto origin/main first: a conflicting PR gets zero CI runs, silently.
Work out whether the author is a maintainer (write/maintain/admin on the repo, e.g. nicoloboschi).
2. Check out the PR branch
Work in the current worktree — don't create a new worktree or clone. Before switching, note its
state (current branch/commit and any uncommitted changes) so you can restore it in step 6; set
uncommitted work aside with a WIP commit or a uniquely tagged stash (never a bare git stash — the
stash stack is shared across worktrees). Then check out the PR's branch (skip if you're already on
it). On current-branch input, ask the user if uncommitted work isn't obviously part of the PR.
- Maintainer PR: fixes are committed and pushed to this branch — the PR's own head. Never open a separate fix PR.
- External (fork) PR: push to the fork branch too if maintainers can modify it; otherwise stop and ask the user how to proceed (follow-up PR vs. ask the contributor).
Before every push, make sure the author hasn't pushed meanwhile. If they have, read their new commits and rebase yours onto their head — never force-push over work you haven't read.
3. Review
Read and follow the repo's code-review skill at its absolute path,
<repo>/.claude/skills/code-review/SKILL.md (<repo> = git rev-parse --show-toplevel), against the PR's changes
(base = origin/<baseRefName>). Collect every finding: must fix, should fix, and nits.
Classify each against step 0. Any blocker → stop and ask.
4. Apply ALL fixes
- Fix every finding, not just the must-fixes. Stay in the PR's scope — don't refactor neighbouring code the review didn't flag.
- Run
./scripts/hooks/lint.shand the tests covering the touched code (see CLAUDE.md for commands). Regenerate OpenAPI/clients/docs-skill if the change requires it. - Loop until clean. One review pass is never enough: fixes introduce new findings, and the
review only sees what the last pass changed. So repeat — review → fix everything → review again —
until a full
code-reviewpass returns zero findings of any severity (must fix, should fix, nits). Don't stop at "only nits left", don't stop because the last pass found fewer things, and don't declare done on a pass you didn't actually re-run. The only early exit is a blocker (step 0) → stop and ask. - Commit with a message that lists what was fixed, then push to the PR branch.
Don't post a review comment on a maintainer's PR — findings go in the chat reply and the commit message. On an external PR, one short comment summarising the fixes you pushed is fine.
5. Wait for CI green
The repo has no required status checks: gh pr merge --auto merges immediately, and
gh pr checks reports only the checks registered so far (a lone early Strix check reads as
"green"). Gate on the CI workflow run for the pushed head SHA:
SHA=$(gh pr view <N> --json headRefOid --jq .headRefOid)
gh run list --branch <headRefName> --workflow CI --json databaseId,status,conclusion,headSha \
| jq --arg s "$SHA" 'map(select(.headSha==$s)) | .[0] // empty'
No run yet → keep waiting (give up and report after ~15 min with no run). Once completed, judge
per job (gh run view <id> --json jobs): zero failure. If the PR touches the API/engine, test-api (1..3/3),
Core LLM tests, and the LLM acceptance matrix must be success, not skipped; for changes outside
those paths the change filter skips them legitimately. The oracle-client jobs are known-flaky and may
be cancelled — ignore those.
Fork PRs skip test-api and the LLM jobs (no secrets). Run the full suite on an upstream branch
before merging — merging to main runs no CI at all:
git push origin HEAD:ci/pr-<N>-verify
gh workflow run CI --ref ci/pr-<N>-verify # exactly ONCE — a second dispatch cancels the first
A failure caused by the PR/fixes → fix, push, back to step 5. A known flake (check the job log isn't
touching the PR's code) → gh run rerun <id> --failed once the run has completed.
If CI still fails for reasons you can't attribute, stop and report — don't merge red.
6. Restore the worktree, then merge
First restore the worktree to how you found it: switch back to the original branch/commit and
re-apply any work you set aside (undo the WIP commit / apply-then-drop your tagged stash). Do the
same if you stop early on a blocker or failure. Restoring first also keeps --delete-branch from
trying to check out main, which another worktree may hold.
gh pr merge <N> --squash --delete-branch
git push origin --delete ci/pr-<N>-verify # if you created it
Report: PR link, the findings fixed (one line each), anything deliberately left, and the CI run that gated the merge.
Note on gh pr edit
It fails on this repo — a GraphQL "Projects (classic)" deprecation aborts it and nothing changes, silently. To edit a description use the REST API instead:
gh api -X PATCH repos/<owner>/<repo>/pulls/<N> -F body=@body.md