gh-pr-pickup-designated-branch-supersede SKILL.md skillA
gh-pr-pickup-designated-branch-supersede from wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/gh-pr-pickup-designated-branch-supersede@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control
- Path
plugins/agent-traffic-control/skills/gh-pr-pickup-designated-branch-supersede/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Aug 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 6, 2026
- Size
- 5,169 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Finish somebody else's open draft pull request when your session must push to a different, designated branch name — base it on the PR head and supersede.
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
# Picking up an existing PR when the harness designates a different branch ## Problem A session is asked to "pick up PR #N and finish the tasks", but the execution harness (Claude Code on the web, GitHub-Action-spawned sessions, etc.) pre-designates a branch name for all pushes — different from PR #N's head branch — and forbids pushing anywhere else. Three tempting wrong moves: 1. **Push to the PR's own head branch anyway.** Violates the harness branch contract; on some remotes (proxy-scoped credentials) the push is denied outright, or worse, silently allowed against the operator's intent. 2. **Start the designated branch from main.** You re-implement or cherry-pick the PR's work; the diff review context, commit messages, and the PR's own handoff docs (often committed ON the PR branch) are lost. 3. **Rewrite the inherited commits** (rebase --exec amend, squash locally) to satisfy a commit-signature/identity linter. The originals are already pushed on the open PR; rewriting forks the history and confuses the supersede story. ## Fix — the supersede pattern ```sh # 1. Base the designated branch ON the PR head (keeps its commits + docs) …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/gh-pr-pickup-designated-branch-supersede@sha256:8d8cb73eafeae003The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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_nqvuvvs65f2ldptm)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jul 6, 2026 and Aug 10, 2026, about one every 18 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-08-10 | 5b6d8a2 | 5,169 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-08-10 | a58c34c | 5,146 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-07-06 | 81ebb0f | 5,939 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 (5169 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
wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-22 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nqvuvvs65f2ldptm GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wan-huiyan/agent-traffic-control/gh-pr-pickup-designated-branch-supersede GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8d8cb73eafeae003764c32314cdc3622fd88ac7735334d0c1e447fcd63bbd26c
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.