pr-gardening SKILL.md skillA
pr-gardening from paperclipai/paperclip is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/pr-gardening@git:20260727.aed4478Pins git:20260727.aed4478 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- paperclipai/paperclip
- Path
.agents/skills/pr-gardening/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260727.aed4478, committed Jul 27, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 16, 2026
- Size
- 13,183 bytes
- Repository stars
- 105,684
- License
- MIT
Discover the pull requests this Paperclip instance opened (never community contributions), report what each is for and how confident we are that it is merge-ready, and automatically drive the non-ready ones back to green with /prepare-paperclip-pr — without ever merging.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# PR Gardening Actively garden the pull requests **this Paperclip instance opened** that are referenced by Paperclip issues active in a recent window (default 14 days). Candidate discovery and readiness checking are scripts, not LLM analysis. GitHub access is read-only throughout this workflow. ## Scope — Our PRs Only By default the workflow gardens only pull requests authored by this instance's GitHub identity (the `gh` authenticated login, e.g. `cryppadotta`). Community contributions and dependabot PRs are excluded mechanically by author login in Stage A and land in `droppedCommunityPullRequests`; never re-add them by hand, widen the scope only when the caller explicitly passes `--authors` or `--include-community`. ## Hard Guardrails - **Never merge, approve, or close a pull request.** - **Never instruct another person or agent to merge, approve, or close a pull request.** - **Never garden, comment on, or run `/prepare-paperclip-pr` against a community PR.** Only PRs from the Stage A author allowlist are actionable. - Never use mutating `gh` commands or mutating GitHub API requests. The scripts only use `gh pr view` and read-only `gh api` GET requests. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add paperclipai/paperclip/pr-gardening@sha256:773da1395a1ffa59The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260727.aed4478, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_3zlka5v4qw6vhzzc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Jul 16, 2026 and Jul 27, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260727.aed4478 latest | 2026-07-27 | aed4478 | 13,183 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.53f09cb | 2026-07-16 | 53f09cb | 10,050 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.59fb27f | 2026-07-16 | 59fb27f | 8,896 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260716.b606869 | 2026-07-16 | b606869 | 6,401 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (13183 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
paperclipai/paperclip · 105,684 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-22 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_3zlka5v4qw6vhzzc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=paperclipai/paperclip/pr-gardening GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/773da1395a1ffa59ac378c80ccd11f6aa6a21e8b5a4236769048d5c183a6f801
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.