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Pull Request

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What Pull Request does

The Pull Request skill automates the creation and management of draft pull requests on GitHub, ensuring a smooth transition from development to review. It is designed for developers who want to maintain a structured workflow when submitting code changes. By following a defined process, this skill helps ensure that all necessary information is included in the pull request, making it easier for reviewers to understand the context and changes made.

When using this skill, the first step is to analyze the changes made in the branch since it diverged from the main branch. This includes reviewing all commits and ensuring that all changes are pushed to the remote repository. The skill then creates a draft pull request, which is essential for gathering feedback before merging any changes. The draft status allows for a collaborative review process where comments and suggestions can be made without the pressure of an immediate merge.

One of the key features of this skill is its ability to drive review rounds. It triggers continuous integration (CI) reviews on the draft pull request and only marks it as ready once all reviews are positive. This ensures that code quality is maintained and that any issues are addressed before merging. The skill also enforces a structured format for the pull request title and body, which helps maintain consistency across submissions and provides clarity for reviewers.

Overall, this skill is ideal for teams looking to enhance their code review process and ensure that all pull requests are well-documented and thoroughly vetted before integration into the main codebase. It is particularly useful in collaborative environments where multiple developers contribute to the same project, as it helps streamline communication and feedback.

When to use it

Use this skill when you want to create a draft pull request on GitHub and manage the review process efficiently.

When not to use it

This skill may not be suitable for one-off or informal pull requests where a structured review process is not required.

What you can build with it

Creating a Draft PR for Review

Use this skill to create a draft pull request with all necessary details, ensuring that reviewers have clear context about the changes.

Driving Continuous Integration Reviews

Leverage this skill to automatically trigger CI reviews on your draft PR, maintaining high code quality standards.

Maintaining Consistent PR Documentation

Ensure that all pull requests follow a structured format for titles and bodies, making it easier for teams to review and understand changes.

How to install Pull Request

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1. Install with the skills CLI

npx skills add windmill-labs/windmill/pr --agent claude-code

2. Or install it manually

Download the skill folder and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/ for all projects, or .claude/skills/ to scope it to one repo. Restart Claude Code so it picks up the new skill.

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Inside SKILL.md

Written by windmill-labs

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 (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.

  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):

      ✅ Review round clean @ <head-sha>

    • nit-only round, nits fixed or dismissed afterwards (head may have moved past the reviewed SHA — say so):

      ✅ Review round clean @ <head-sha> — nit-only verdicts at <round-sha>; nits addressed in <commit sha(s)> / dismissed in review replies

    gh pr comment <PR_NUMBER> --body "✅ Review round clean @ $(git rev-parse HEAD)"
    gh pr ready <PR_NUMBER>
    

    If any P0/P1 finding is unaddressed or the head moved for reasons other than nit fixes, do not post the marker or flip — run another round instead.

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

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