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name: pr-workflow
description: Use when preparing, creating, updating, or reviewing pull requests — enforcing pre-PR checks, atomic commits, dependency release links, and issue linkage (GitHub primary, non-GitHub referenced).
---
# PR Workflow
Standard operating procedure for preparing, opening, and managing Pull Requests (PR) and Merge Requests (MR). Default to GitHub (`gh` CLI); for other platforms, see [platform-tools.md](references/platform-tools.md).
## Preflight
- **Base Sync**: Before creating a feature branch or starting a new task, fetch and sync the default base branch (`git fetch origin && git checkout main && git pull --ff-only` or branch directly off `origin/main`).
- **Clean Working Tree**: Verify `git status` is clean before editing or opening PRs.
- **Verification**: Run local **tests** and **linters** before opening or updating PRs.
For bounded, context-heavy local checks, prefer an available named `check-runner`
and pass only commands selected by the primary agent. Require its exact command,
exit code, summary blocks, omitted-line count, and artifact reference.
### Worker routing
Request the cheapest capable model and lowest sufficient effort (`low` for
routine); unsupported overrides inherit parent/configured defaults. Report
requested/actual only from runtime metadata, else inherited/unknown.
If a named role is unavailable/unsupported or returns an explicit
pre-execution dispatch/runtime error (for example capacity, rate limit,
- rejected model, or launch error), try one generic if it preserves:
+ rejected model, or launch error), try one generic fallback that preserves
+ the named worker's tools and permissions:
- **Check:** selected commands, artifacts allowed, no tracked/Git-state mutation;
report command, exit, summaries, omissions, and artifact.
- **Log:** exact approved local artifact only; reject unsafe input; report causes
and events without fetching runs.
- Otherwise use primary; an explicit pre-execution failure from the generic also
- falls back to primary. Once a worker begins its assigned workload, its rejection
- or failure is final: no other worker, primary rerun, stronger model, or higher
- effort. If the runtime does not reveal whether execution began, stop and report
- the ambiguity instead of risking duplicate work.
+ Otherwise use primary; a generic pre-execution failure also falls back to
+ primary. Once a worker begins its assigned workload, its rejection or failure
+ is final: no other worker, primary rerun, stronger model, or higher effort.
+ If a dispatch error does not reveal whether execution began, stop that
+ dispatch and report the ambiguity; do not retry or duplicate that workload.
## Branching & Guardrails
- **Branch Guard**: Stay on feature branches; never push or merge directly into the default base branch without explicit approval.
- **Base Discovery**: Detect the base branch dynamically from repo evidence (`origin/HEAD`, PR target).
- **Fork Safety**: Confirm with user before opening PRs on upstream or third-party forks.
## Commit Hygiene
- **Atomic Commits**: Keep commits single-concern. Include release/changelog URLs on single dependency bumps.
- **Non-interactive**: Pass `GIT_EDITOR=true` or `--no-edit` on git rebase/commit/merge to bypass GUI editor prompts.
## Issue Linking
- **Auto-close**: Reserve `Closes #N`, `Fixes #N`, or `Resolves #N` solely for PRs that auto-close the issue on merge.
- **Part-of**: Use `Part of #N` or `See #N` for epic tracking and multi-PR tasks. GitHub matches those tokens even inside negation — never write `Closes #N` (or Fix/Resolve) next to an issue you must not close.
## PR Lifecycle (GitHub Primary)
For GitLab, Gitea, Azure DevOps, or Bitbucket, see [platform-tools.md](references/platform-tools.md).
For a caller-selected remote failure log, classify and scope the source before
delegation. The primary downloads only that log to a local artifact; the worker
never fetches remote logs or discovers unrelated runs. Low-risk build, lint,
and test artifacts may go to a named `log-summarizer` after caller review.
Potentially sensitive logs require a sanitized artifact and residual-secret
gate first; otherwise keep them in primary.
Use the worker-routing fallback above when the named summarizer is unavailable
or unsupported.
### Create PR
```bash
gh pr create --title "<type>(<scope>): <summary>" --body "<description>"
```
### Update PR (Amend / Force-push)
```bash
gh pr edit <pr_number> --title "<updated_title>" --body "<updated_body>"
```