opening-prs SKILL.md skillA
opening-prs from oaustegard/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/opening-prs@v0.1.0Pins v0.1.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- oaustegard/claude-skills
- Path
opening-prs/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- v0.1.0, committed May 8, 2026
- Size
- 5,087 bytes
- Repository stars
- 158
- License
- MIT
Open a GitHub PR via API as a flowing graph — branch + push + create_pr + mergeable poll, with structural protection against pushing to main/master/etc. Use when a Claude Code or Claude.ai container needs to land changes on GitHub via the API (no git CLI required) and the prose "create branch, push, open PR, wait for mergeable" workflow keeps drifting under context pressure.
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
# Opening PRs
A `flowing` graph that turns the imperative "create branch, push files,
open a PR, poll mergeable_state" workflow into a structural DAG. The
"NEVER push directly to main" rule is encoded as a `validate=` gate that
physically can't be skipped.
```python
from opening_prs import open_pr
result = open_pr(
repo="owner/repo",
branch_name="feat/cool-thing",
title="Add cool thing",
body="## Summary\n\n...",
files=[
("src/cool.py", "<file content>"),
("docs/cool.md", "<file content>"),
],
base="main", # default; protected names are also rejected
)
print(result["pr_url"]) # https://github.com/.../pull/N
print(result["mergeable_state"]) # clean | dirty | unstable | behind | blocked
```
## What this fixes
The `gh pr create` workflow (or hand-rolled API calls) has five steps in
prose form:
1. Determine the branch name
2. Get the base branch's HEAD SHA
3. Create the branch
4. Push files to the branch
5. Create the PR
6. Poll `mergeable_state` until GitHub finishes computing it
Each step has known failure modes:
- **Step 1**: Accidentally pushing to `main` — the diagnosed pattern that
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add oaustegard/claude-skills/opening-prs@sha256:757d25a6f04faa9fThe line at the top of this page pins the label v0.1.0, 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_bnc5ghhp3f3lt5k2)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 8, 2026.
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 (5087 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
oaustegard/claude-skills · 158 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_bnc5ghhp3f3lt5k2 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=oaustegard/claude-skills/opening-prs GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/757d25a6f04faa9fd3165fed62611ab02d2c7063926cec4886655d80db029475
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.
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