pr-description SKILL.md skillA

pr-description from qa-aman/claude-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/pr-description@git:20260303.09b1726

Pins git:20260303.09b1726 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
qa-aman/claude-skills
Path
skills/by-role/engineer/pr-description/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260303.09b1726, committed Mar 3, 2026
Size
4,244 bytes
Repository stars
21
License
MIT

Write a clear pull request description. Use when the user says "write a PR description", "PR template", "pull request description", "how do I describe this change", "commit message for this", "document this change", "open a PR for", or is about to merge code and needs to communicate what changed and why - even if they don't explicitly say "PR description".

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

## Overview

Based on **"The Pragmatic Programmer"** by Hunt & Thomas. Hunt & Thomas: "It's not just code you're writing - it's communication." A PR description is a letter to your reviewers (and to your future self). It should answer: what changed, why it changed, how to verify it, and what to watch out for. A reviewer who has to read all the code to understand the PR is doing your job for you.

## Workflow

### Step 1: Write the title
Format: `[type]: [short description in imperative mood]`

Types: `feat`, `fix`, `refactor`, `test`, `chore`, `docs`

Rules:
- Imperative mood: "add pagination" not "added pagination" or "adds pagination"
- Under 72 characters
- Specific: "fix null pointer in payment processing" not "fix bug"

### Step 2: Write the Summary
2-4 sentences. Answer: what does this PR do?

Write for someone who hasn't seen the issue, ticket, or conversation. They should understand the change from this paragraph alone.

### Step 3: Write the Motivation (Why)
Why was this change needed? Link the ticket but don't rely on the link - links rot.

If it's a bug fix: what was broken and what impact did it have?
If it's a feature: what user need or business goal does it serve?
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add qa-aman/claude-skills/pr-description@sha256:58f983f2b25179fd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260303.09b1726, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_ggtobv6d26pscnql.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_ggtobv6d26pscnql)

1 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Mar 3, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260303.09b1726 latest2026-03-03 09b1726 4,244 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4244 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

GitHub

qa-aman/claude-skills · 21 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ggtobv6d26pscnql
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=qa-aman/claude-skills/pr-description
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/58f983f2b25179fd7ed7db21d756033568080711ed2c3e5f7fada159fe37ce77

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.

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