shipping-a-pr SKILL.md skillA

shipping-a-pr from jetbrains/thinkrail is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/shipping-a-pr@git:20260918.5b08805

Pins git:20260918.5b08805 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
jetbrains/thinkrail
Path
packages/pi-thinkrail-workflow/skills/shipping-a-pr/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
3
Latest version
git:20260918.5b08805, committed Sep 18, 2026
First version recorded
Aug 24, 2026
Size
4,327 bytes
Repository stars
7,127
License
Apache-2.0

Use when finished work needs to ship as a pull request, or when creating, syncing, updating metadata, checking status, monitoring CI, or addressing review comments on a PR. Not for reviewing a PR you are not shipping.

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

# Shipping a PR

The PR lifecycle: ship the workspace's finished work, maintain PR metadata, and keep the PR healthy
when requested. One workflow, six phases as sibling docs — enter at the phase the ask names.

## Completion modes

- **Snapshot mode is the default** for creating, syncing, or updating a PR and for one-time status
  requests. Take one fresh checks and merge-state snapshot, report pending/failing/indeterminate state
  as observed, and stop without polling or fixing unrelated state. A push never upgrades the mode by
  itself.
- **Wait mode requires an explicit remote-completion ask**: monitor or watch checks, investigate CI,
  wait until green, or make the PR merge-ready. Done means every configured check is green, the head
  is current with its base, and GitHub reports an affirmative merge state; a requested draft is
  reported as draft, never merge-ready. A repo with no CI is reported as exactly that, never silently
  green.

## Observed, never assumed (applies to every phase)

Git and GitHub state is concurrent and mutable: the base moves, CI lags, mergeability is computed
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add jetbrains/thinkrail/shipping-a-pr@sha256:3ae71d4c6d20bfc7

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.5b08805, 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_o5bcvbhhskaw5xiw.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_o5bcvbhhskaw5xiw)

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

Versions

The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Aug 24, 2026 and Sep 18, 2026, about one every 12 days.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260918.5b08805 latest2026-09-18 5b08805 4,327 BA view · diff
git:20260916.a1e5ee72026-09-16 a1e5ee7 4,306 BA view · diff
git:20260824.a7992bd2026-08-24 a7992bd 3,265 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 (4327 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

jetbrains/thinkrail · 7,127 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_o5bcvbhhskaw5xiw
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jetbrains/thinkrail/shipping-a-pr
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3ae71d4c6d20bfc7440855448853cffbf5cfcef4ede335e330e27a20071aa83c

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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