pr

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Lets your agent create a GitHub pull request from your staged changes with an auto-generated branch, title, and description.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the pr skill

About this capability

Create a PR from staged changes with auto-generated branch, title, and description. Use this skill whenever the user wants to create a pull request, ship changes, open a PR, send code for review, or push staged work to GitHub — even if they don't explicitly say "PR".

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by near/nearcore in .claude/skills/pr/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Create a pull request with automatically generated title and description based on staged changes.

Before starting, read relevant memory files (especially PR-related feedback memories). Memory preferences override the defaults below.

User instructions: $ARGUMENTS

If user instructions are non-empty, parse them for the following hints (they are free-form text, not structured flags):

  • "draft" → create the PR as a draft
  • "fork" → push to the user's own fork instead of origin
  • "reuse-branch" → reuse the current branch instead of creating a new one (default is to create a new branch)
  • A base branch (e.g., "base: shreyan/project/pr1", "base is master") → use as the PR base branch instead of auto-detecting
  • A project name (e.g., "project is spice", "project: resharding") → use as the project instead of auto-detecting
  • A change type (e.g., "type: fix", "type is refactor") → use as the change type instead of auto-detecting
  • Any other text → treat as extra context to incorporate into the PR description

Follow these steps in order:

  1. Validate:

    • Record the current branch name
    • Run git diff --cached to capture the staged diff. If empty, warn the user and stop
    • If there are unstaged changes, briefly warn the user that they won't be included in the PR
    • Do NOT analyze unstaged changes
    • Fetch the GitHub username by running: gh api user --jq .login
    • Determine reuse-branch and base branch:
      • If user instructions specify "reuse-branch", set reuse-branch = true.
      • Otherwise, set reuse-branch = false (this is the default).
      • Base branch: if user instructions specify a base branch, use that. If reuse-branch is true, use master. Otherwise, use the current branch.
      • When reuse-branch is true, use the current branch name as the branch name.
    • Detect push remote:
      • If user instructions contain "fork", determine the user's fork remote:
        1. List remotes: git remote -v
        2. Look for a remote whose URL contains the GitHub username (e.g., github.com/{username}/). This is the fork remote.
        3. Record the fork remote name for later use.
      • If "fork" is not specified, the push remote is origin.
  2. Analyze staged changes (reuse the diff output from Step 1):

    • Read the modified files to understand the surrounding code context
    • Identify the project/area (e.g., spice, resharding, state-sync, ci). If changes span multiple projects, pick the most dominant one. If user instructions specify a project, use that instead.
    • Read the CONTRIBUTING.md "## Pull Requests" section for valid change types and PR title conventions
    • Determine the change type (fix, feat, refactor, doc, test, chore, perf, revert). If multiple apply, pick the most dominant. If user instructions specify a type, use that instead.
    • Generate a short hyphenated task name, 2-4 words (e.g., add-metrics, fix-header-validation, refactor-chunk-apply)
  3. Generate all details — do NOT run any state-modifying commands (no creating branches, committing, or pushing) in this step:

    • Branch name (local) and remote branch name:
      • If reuse-branch is true: the local branch name is the current branch. Skip collision checks.
      • Otherwise, generate a new local branch name:
        • If pushing to a fork: {project}/{task}
        • If pushing to origin: {username}/{project}/{task}
        • Check for collisions: git branch --list <name> (local) and git ls-remote --heads <push-remote> <name> (remote)
        • On collision, append -2, -3, etc.
      • Remote branch name: when pushing to origin, the remote branch must have the {username}/ prefix. If the local branch name already starts with {username}/, the remote name is the same. Otherwise, prepend it: {username}/{local-branch-name}. When pushing to a fork, the remote branch name is the same as the local branch name.
    • Commit message: single line, same style as the PR title
    • PR title: <type>(<project>): <title> — title must be lowercase (per CONTRIBUTING.md)
      • Example: feat(state-sync): add metrics tracking
    • PR description:
      • Concise summary of what changed and why. Use prose, bullet points, or a mix — whatever fits the change best. A one-line description is fine for small changes.
      • Incorporate any extra context from user instructions
      • Do not include implementation details, test plan sections, or AI attribution
    • Draft: true if user instructions contain "draft", false otherwise
    • Push remote: the fork remote name if "fork" was specified, otherwise origin
  4. Confirm with user:

    • First, print the details in exactly this format (no horizontal rules, no extra fields):
      Branch: <local-branch-name> (remote: <remote-branch-name>)
      Push remote: <push-remote>
      Base branch: <base-branch>
      Draft: Yes/No
      
      PR title: <title>
      
      PR description:
      <description>
      
    • Then use AskUserQuestion with two options: "Yes, create PR" / "Abort"
      • Do NOT put the details inside the AskUserQuestion options
      • The user can select "Other" (built-in) to provide edits — apply their changes and re-confirm
    • If "Abort": stop immediately. Nothing was modified, so no cleanup is needed.
  5. Execute — only after user confirms:

    • If reuse-branch is false, create the branch: git checkout -b <branch-name>
    • Commit staged changes using a HEREDOC for the message:
      git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
      <commit message>
      EOF
      )"
      
    • Push: git push -u <push-remote> <local-branch-name>:<remote-branch-name> (If local and remote names are the same, git push -u <push-remote> <branch-name> is fine.)
    • Create the PR using a HEREDOC for the body:
      • If pushing to a fork, use --head <username>:<remote-branch-name>:
        gh pr create --base <base-branch> --head <username>:<remote-branch-name> \
          --title "<title>" \
          --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
        <description>
        EOF
        )"
        
      • If pushing to origin, use --head <remote-branch-name>:
        gh pr create --base <base-branch> --head <remote-branch-name> \
          --title "<title>" \
          --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
        <description>
        EOF
        )"
        
      Add --draft if the draft flag is set.
    • Display the PR URL on success
    • If push or PR creation fails but the branch was already created locally, tell the user the branch exists and suggest how to retry

Signals

GitHub stars
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Last commit
Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
skill
Gateway key
pr-near
Source
github.com/near/nearcore