autopilot-comment -- Sole GitHub comment writer
SkillDev toolsLets your agent post or patch one GitHub comment on a microsoft/apm autopilot run, with a built-in AI disclaimer footer.
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Then ask your AI: use the autopilot-comment -- Sole GitHub comment writer skill
About this capability
Use this skill to post or patch ONE GitHub comment for a microsoft/apm autopilot run. It owns public vs debug body assembly and the AI disclaimer footer. Never labels, assigns, requests reviewers, or merges. Autopilot skills that write comments must load this skill and must not call gh comment APIs
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by microsoft/apm in .agents/skills/autopilot-comment/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Any autopilot skill that would write a GitHub comment loads this skill in the same session and stops if the card is missing. Do not spawn a nested session. Do not comment from the caller.
Activation card
activation_card: on. Before any GitHub comment write, emit this
Enter card with every field filled. Missing field -> stop.
skill: autopilot-comment
skill_path: <resolved directory of this SKILL.md>
mode: run
subject: microsoft/apm#<number>
path: comment
intent: post one GitHub comment | patch one GitHub comment
origin: unattended | actor-session
write: on | off
debug: off | on
repo: microsoft/apm
target_kind: issue | pull
target: <positive integer>
source_skill: <canonical autopilot skill name>
comment_id: none | <positive integer>
invocation: agentic-workflow | actor-session
receipt: <HTML comment watermark line>
public_body: <author-facing prose, no JSON, no footer>
debug_body: <full internal template without JSON fence, or none>
Rules:
writedefaults toonwhen the caller omitted it.write: offreturns the assembled body only. Do not post or patch.write: onposts or patches exactly one comment. Never labels, assigns, requests reviewers, or merges.debugdefaults tooffwhen omitted or unknown. Omitteddebugis not a missing-field stop.debug: off-> HTMLreceiptpluspublic_body. Do not post internal headings fromdebug_body.debug: on-> first line[i] Skill debug is on.thenreceiptplusdebug_body(orpublic_bodyifdebug_bodyisnone).comment_id: nonewith intentpost. A numericcomment_idwith intentpatch. Mismatch -> stop.source_skillis the caller (for exampleautopilot-issue-triage-worker). Neverautopilot-comment.originfail-closed unknown ->unattended.- Strip any JSON fence from bodies before assembly. Never post JSON on GitHub.
After the write (or dry-run), emit this Exit receipt:
skill: autopilot-comment
subject: microsoft/apm#<number>
path: comment
write: on | off
debug: off | on
posted: yes | no
patched: yes | no
comment_id: <id or none>
source_skill: <canonical autopilot skill name>
approved: n/a
Assemble
- Drop JSON fences and
triage-recommendationblocks. - Build the body from
debugas above. ASCII only. - Append this exact footer, substituting
source_skill:
---
Generated by <source_skill>. This comment is AI-generated and may contain errors.
- If the footer is already the last lines, do not duplicate it.
Write
Actor-session / Copilot App / Cloud / Remote:
- issue + post:
gh issue comment <target> --body-file ... - pull + post:
gh pr comment <target> --body-file ... - patch:
gh api -X PATCH /repos/microsoft/apm/issues/comments/<comment_id>
Agentic Workflow: safe-outputs.add-comment for post. Patch is
not available; stop if intent is patch.
One comment per activation. No progress comments.
Hard nos
- Do not assign, request reviewers, merge, or edit labels.
- Do not implement.
- Do not compose schedulers or other workers.
- ASCII only.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 4k
- Forks
- 369
- Last commit
- Sep 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
autopilot-comment- Source
- github.com/microsoft/apm