Pull Request Skill

Create a draft pull request with a clear title and explicit description of changes, then drive it through CI review rounds to ready.

Instructions

1. Analyze branch changes: Understand all commits since diverging from main
2. Push to remote: Ensure all commits are pushed
3. Create draft PR: Always open as draft for review before merging
4. Drive review rounds: trigger CI reviews on the draft and only flip to ready once every verdict is a go (see "Review rounds" below)

PR Title Format

Follow conventional commit format for the PR title:

<type>: <description>

Types

• feat: New feature or capability
• fix: Bug fix
• refactor: Code restructuring
• docs: Documentation changes
• chore: Maintenance tasks
• perf: Performance improvements

Title Rules

• Keep under 70 characters
• Use lowercase, imperative mood
• No period at the end
• If *_ee.rs files were modified, prefix with [ee]: [ee] <type>: <description>

PR Body Format

The body MUST be explicit about what changed. Structure:

## Summary
<Clear description of what this PR does and why>

## Changes
- <Specific change 1>
- <Specific change 2>
- <Specific change 3>

## Test plan
- [ ] <How to verify change 1>
- [ ] <How to verify change 2>

The harness/tooling that invoked the skill may add its own attribution trailer; the skill itself does not prescribe one.

Screenshots (required for frontend changes)

If git diff main...HEAD --name-only matches ^frontend/, the PR body must include screenshots of the affected UI. Skip only when there is no visible UI effect (types, tests, build config) — and say so in the body.

1. Verify the change in the browser (frontend/AGENTS.md → "Verifying Frontend Changes").

2. Screenshot each affected page with mcp__playwright__browser_take_screenshot (save to a file).

3. Host each image and get its Markdown embed by pushing to the public windmill-labs/agent-screenshots-internal repo. Pipe base64 through stdin — passing it as -f content=… fails with argument list too long on real images:

   REPO=windmill-labs/agent-screenshots-internal
   IMG=screenshot.png                                          # repeat per page
   DEST="shots/$(git branch --show-current)/$(date +%s)-$(basename "$IMG")"
   base64 -w0 "$IMG" | jq -Rs --arg m "add $DEST" '{message:$m, content:.}' \
     | gh api -X PUT "repos/$REPO/contents/$DEST" --input - >/dev/null
   echo "![$(basename "$IMG" .png)](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/$REPO/main/$DEST)"
   

   Derive $DEST from the file name (as above) so distinct pages never collide — a fixed name would make same-second uploads reuse one path, and the second PUT then 422s (the Contents API needs the existing file's sha to overwrite).

4. Put the printed ![…](…) lines under a ## Screenshots heading in the PR body.

Requires gh (repo scope), jq, base64 — all in the devShell. The host repo is public (so the raw URLs render for reviewers without a token) and its history is permanent — never screenshot pages that show secrets or sensitive values (workspace variables, resource values, instance settings, OAuth/SMTP config); deleting the file can't undo an accidental capture. (GitHub's drag-and-drop uploader needs a browser session and can't be driven from a token.)

If gh can't push to the host repo (e.g. a CI token scoped only to windmill), do not fail the PR or skip silently — hand the upload to the user, who has push access, and continue once they confirm it's done.

Execution Steps

1. Run git status to check for uncommitted changes

2. Run git log main..HEAD --oneline to see all commits in this branch

3. Run git diff main...HEAD to see the full diff against main

4. Review the diff before creating the PR — run both reviews, do not skip:

   • local-review — Claude-native branch-diff-reviewer (/local-review in Claude Code, $local-review in Codex, pi --skill local-review / /skill:local-review in Pi).
   • local-review-codex — cold Codex pass, the same review CI runs, for an independent perspective the Claude pass misses (/local-review-codex in Claude Code, or bash .agents/skills/local-review-codex/run.sh). If the codex CLI is missing or older than the version pinned in that skill, note it in your summary and continue — never block the PR on codex being unavailable.

   Run both — they catch different things. If either surfaces issues, fix them and commit before proceeding.

5. Screenshots for frontend changes: if git diff main...HEAD --name-only matches ^frontend/, capture and embed screenshots of the affected UI per "Screenshots" above before writing the PR body (skip only if there is no visible UI effect).

6. Check if remote branch exists and is up to date:

   git rev-parse --abbrev-ref --symbolic-full-name @{u} 2>/dev/null || echo "no upstream"
   

7. Push to remote if needed: git push -u origin HEAD

8. Create draft PR using gh CLI:

   gh pr create --draft --title "<type>: <description>" --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
   ## Summary
   <description>
   
   ## Changes
   - <change 1>
   - <change 2>
   
   ## Test plan
   - [ ] <test 1>
   - [ ] <test 2>
   EOF
   )"
   

9. Return the PR URL to the user

10. Drive the PR through CI review rounds to ready (see "Review rounds" below)

Review rounds (draft → ready)

A PR leaves draft only after a clean CI review round. Never run gh pr ready before that. This is the rule in every mode, autonomous included. A clean round is necessary but not always sufficient — see "Flip, or ask first" below. The one standing exception is an explicit request to leave that PR in draft (usually so it can be tested first) — honour it for that PR, and don't carry it over to the next one.

1. Trigger a round and wait for it: launch the waiter as a background Bash task (a round takes 10–30 min; you are woken when it exits — do not stop the session or poll in the foreground while it runs):

   bash .agents/skills/pr/review-round.sh <PR_NUMBER>
   

   It comments /review on the PR — which runs the Codex, Claude and Pi CI reviewers even on a draft — waits for the spawned PR Review Commands workflow run(s) to complete, then prints one verdict line per reviewer and saves the full review comments to files.

   /review (and /codex) are idempotent per head SHA: if a running or successful review already covers the current head, they skip that agent and post nothing new — the waiter reads the existing verdict for that head, so a skipped agent is not a missing one. A cancelled/failed head run is re-run in place; a fresh run is launched only when nothing covers the head. So an unchanged-head re-review is a near no-op, not a new round — push a commit to get genuinely fresh reviews.

2. Judge the round. Codex is mandatory; Claude, Pi and cubic count whenever they posted. Every review starts with one of the three REVIEW.md verdicts:

   • Codex verdict missing → the round is void: the waiter warns only when the head has no green Codex run (cancelled/failed/absent — not merely skipped-because-already-reviewed). Comment /codex on the PR, which re-runs the interrupted run in place (or launches one if none exists), wait the same way, and judge again.
   • Any "Should address issues before merging" → fix the P0/P1 findings (and the nits while you're there), commit, push, and start a new round (step 1).
   • Only "Mergeable, but should ideally address nits" and/or "Good to merge" → fix the nits too; a nit that is wrong or genuinely not worth fixing may instead be dismissed by replying to the review comment with your reasoning. Push nit-only fixes without starting another full round.

3. Flip to ready with the marker comment. The review workflows skip the redundant ready_for_review-triggered round when the PR author has posted a marker naming the current head SHA and the PR's latest Codex review posted before the marker has a non-blocking verdict (reviewer evidence — a bare marker with no round behind it, or one whose last pre-marker Codex verdict is "Should address issues", skips nothing). Keep the prefix exact and use the full 40-char SHA of the head you are flipping:

   • every verdict was "Good to merge" (head unchanged since the round):

A round that never starts is usually a conflict

The review workflows don't run on a PR that cannot merge, so a round that produces no verdict is more often a conflict with main than a CI outage. Check before assuming anything is broken:

gh pr view <PR_NUMBER> --json mergeable,mergeStateStatus

Resolve by merging, not rebasing — a rebase rewrites the head SHA that round verdicts and the clean-round marker are keyed to, invalidating work you have already paid for:

git fetch origin main
git merge origin/main

If that merge changed backend/ee-repo-ref.txt, move the EE worktree to match. The file pins the EE commit CE builds against, so a merge that advances it leaves the EE checkout behind what CE now expects, and cargo check --features private compiles a tree neither you nor CI intends:

git -C <ee-worktree> merge "$(tr -d '[:space:]' < backend/ee-repo-ref.txt)"

Push both, then start a fresh round — the head moved, so the earlier verdicts no longer apply.

Flip, or ask first

A clean round earns the flip; it does not always earn it unattended. Judge the blast radius from the diff first — git diff --name-only main...HEAD answers most of these.

Ask before flipping when the change:

• touches *_ee.rs (it spans the EE repo through symlinks and has a companion PR)
• adds a migration under backend/migrations/
• changes openapi.yaml, openflow.openapi.yaml, or the generated client
• touches auth, permission, or token paths
• changes shared worker infrastructure — the job poller, handle_child, an executor
• trips REVIEW.md's "Checklist for new public surfaces"

Flip without asking when it is self-contained: a single-file fix, test-only, docs-only, one call site, no new public surface.

Unattended (a one-shot run) there is nobody to ask, so the judgement holds and the action degrades: flip the self-contained ones, and leave the rest at a clean draft with a line in the PR description saying why — left in draft: adds a migration, wants a human look before ready. Don't flip a wide-blast-radius change just because the round came back clean, and don't ask a question nobody will read.

AGENTS.local.md (gitignored, so it may not exist) carries a "PR ready calibration" section recording how past ambiguous calls went. Read it before deciding; when a call is still genuinely ambiguous, ask, then append the answer there so the next one is less ambiguous.

When rounds stop converging

Three or more rounds without a clean verdict usually means the change's shape is wrong, not that there is an endless supply of independent bugs. The tells:

• findings keep landing in the same files round after round
• fixing one finding creates the next
• the findings are about coupling, duplication, or state threaded through many places, rather than logic errors

When that pattern holds, stop running rounds — each one costs a CI cycle and is not going to converge. Say plainly that the remaining findings look structural rather than incidental, and name the module or seam they cluster around. With a user present, suggest they run /improve-codebase-architecture over that area: it is slash-only so you cannot invoke it yourself, and reshaping the code is a scope change they should choose. Unattended, put the diagnosis in the PR description and stop there rather than grinding out more rounds.

EE Companion PR (when *_ee.rs files were modified)

The *_ee.rs files in the windmill repo are symlinks to windmill-ee-private — changes won't appear in git diff of the windmill repo. Instead, check the EE repo for uncommitted or unpushed changes.

Follow the full EE PR workflow in docs/enterprise.md. The key PR-specific details:

1. Find the EE repo/worktree: see "Finding the EE Repo" in docs/enterprise.md
2. Check for changes: git -C <ee-path> status --short
   • If there are no changes in the EE repo, skip this entire section
3. Follow steps 1–5 from the "EE PR Workflow" in docs/enterprise.md
4. Create the companion PR (title does NOT get the [ee] prefix):

   gh pr create --draft --repo windmill-labs/windmill-ee-private --title "<type>: <description>" --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
   Companion PR for windmill-labs/windmill#<PR_NUMBER>
   EOF
   )"
   

5. Commit ee-repo-ref.txt and push the updated windmill branch