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babysit-pr

Monitor GitHub pull request CI, review comments, and mergeability until merge or closure.

5|1|Updated May 5, 2026
Search Tags:#automation#code review#pull request#github#merge#flaky tests#ci monitoring
One-click install
npx skills add https://github.com/cbusillo/codex-skills --skill babysit-pr-cbusillo
Or copy as Structured Prompt for Agent▼
Please help me install this Agent Skill.
Skill: babysit-pr
Source: https://github.com/cbusillo/codex-skills/tree/main/skills/babysit-pr
Command: npx skills add https://github.com/cbusillo/codex-skills --skill babysit-pr-cbusillo

SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION & REQUIREMENTS

💡 This Skill includes scripts (resource) and references (resource) components.

What problem does it solve? After pushing a PR, engineers repeatedly check CI status, review feedback, and merge conflicts by hand. This Skill automates that follow-through by continuously polling a GitHub pull request, diagnosing failures, retrying flaky checks, and surfacing new review comments until the PR is merged, closed, or needs human help. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Continuous PR Watching: Streams JSONL snapshots of CI checks, review state, and mergeability via a watcher script, with adaptive polling (1 minute active, 5 minutes for quiet green PRs). - CI Failure Diagnosis and Retry: Classifies failures as branch-related or flaky using failed-job logs, auto-fixes branch-related issues, and reruns flaky failures up to 3 times per head SHA. - Review Comment Handling: Surfaces issue comments, inline review comments, and review submissions from humans and bots, fixes actionable feedback, and resolves threads after pushing. - Use Case: After pushing review fixes to an open PR, ask the agent to keep watching; it restarts the watcher, confirms the new CI round, surfaces any late review comments, and reports when the PR is ready for a merge decision. ## Quick Start Use the babysit-pr skill to monitor the current branch's pull request, including CI checks, review comments, and mergeability, until it is merged or closed.

Frequently Asked Questions about babysit-pr

High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.

FAQPage Schema
How do I monitor a GitHub pull request until it merges?▼

Run the watcher in continuous mode with uv run scripts/gh_pr_watch.py --pr auto --watch. It streams JSONL snapshots of CI, review, and mergeability state and keeps polling until the PR is merged, closed, or blocked on user help.

How do I automatically retry flaky CI failures on a PR?▼

The watcher emits a retry_failed_checks action when failed runs look flaky and rerunnable. Trigger reruns with uv run scripts/gh_pr_watch.py --pr auto --retry-failed-now, limited to 3 retry cycles per head SHA before stopping for user help.

Can this skill merge a pull request automatically?▼

No. The skill never merges a PR; it only reports when a PR is ready for a merge decision. Merge execution is delegated to the separate github skill and requires explicit merge authorization plus a fresh readiness check.

Does the PR watcher handle review comments from bots and humans?▼

Yes. It surfaces issue comments, inline review comments, and review submissions from both humans and automation bots. Actionable feedback can be fixed and pushed, but replies to human-authored comments require explicit user confirmation before posting.

Why does the watcher report check_evidence_incomplete?▼

It means REST check counts cannot prove a terminal CI round, due to lower-bound counts, unavailable components, or a head SHA mismatch. The watcher keeps polling and will not rerun failed jobs from that incomplete evidence alone.

What are the limitations of automated PR babysitting?▼

It stops for user help on infrastructure outages, exhausted flaky retry budgets, permission failures, ambiguous reviewer requests, or protected PR head branches. It also never force-pushes, never patches unrelated flaky tests, and does not merge PRs itself.

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