openchamber/.agents/skills/triage-prs/SKILL.md

name, description

name	description
triage-prs	Load when asked to triage, clean up, batch-process, or work through the open PR queue or backlog — covers the mechanical sweep (stale, conflicts, duplicates), fan-out verdict reviews, and approved batch actions.

Turn an unbounded PR queue into a short list of maintainer decisions. The pipeline has three phases; no GitHub write happens in any phase without the maintainer approving that specific batch — present verdicts and drafted messages first, act on their word.

Companion: each substantive review inside phase 3 applies the pr-review skill; this skill owns only the batch mechanics around it.

Phase 1 — Mechanical sweep (no judgment, no LLM verdicts)

Fetch all open PRs with gh (the repo is openchamber/openchamber). Two measurement rules learned the hard way:

• Staleness is the last commit date on the branch, never updatedAt — bots bump updatedAt with every comment and label. Fetch last-commit dates with batched GraphQL (commits(last: 1)), ~50 PRs per query.
• gh pr list silently defaults to 30 rows — always pass --limit above the real queue size and print the resulting count.

Bucket every non-draft PR:

Bucket	Condition	Action template
Dead	merge conflict AND no author commit in >30 days	close with stale-close
Conflicted-active	merge conflict, author committed within 30 days	comment rebase-request, leave open
Clean	mergeable	phase 3 review pool
Draft	isDraft	untouched until marked ready

Then detect duplicate clusters across the survivors: pairs with high title-token overlap or high changed-file overlap. For each cluster recommend one keeper (prefer: mergeable over conflicted, references an issue, smaller diff, earlier author — a later near-identical body is likely a regenerated copy of the earlier PR, and the earlier author keeps the credit); the rest close with duplicate-close.

Deliver the sweep as one report (counts per bucket, per-bucket tables with number/title/author/size/last-commit-age/areas, clusters with keeper recommendations) and stop for approval.

Phase 2 — Approved batch actions

Execute the approved closes/comments with retries and ~1–2s spacing between calls. Log every result; report exact ok/fail counts and re-verify the open-PR total afterwards. Branch protection may reject merges — --admin is available and accepted for maintainer-approved merges; a merge that becomes conflicted mid-batch (usually CHANGELOG collisions from the batch's own merges) can be resolved in a temporary worktree and pushed to the contributor's branch when maintainerCanModify is true.

Phase 3 — Verdict reviews

The review bot's review:* labels are a pre-sort, not a verdict: review:ready PRs go first (the bot found no code defects — likely MERGE/MERGE-THEN-FIX), review:blocked ones carry a bot comment whose findings the verdict review verifies rather than rediscovers. Bot labels never replace the pr-review pass — the bot cannot judge product fit or maintainability scope.

Split the clean pool smallest-first (tiny diffs are fast wins and most likely mergeable). Fan out subagents in batches of ~10 PRs each; every subagent receives the full pr-review skill text as its instructions plus its PR numbers, reads real diffs (gh pr view, gh pr diff) and the local checkout, and returns per-PR verdict blocks in the skill's output format.

Consolidate into a single report grouped by verdict — MERGE, MERGE-THEN-FIX, PUSH-BACK (with the drafted lists), DECLINE (with the drafted close comments), plus every "needs your hands" line — and stop for approval. After approval: post/merge per verdict, and queue MERGE-THEN-FIX follow-ups as in-house work.

If a batch subagent skips a PR, notice (count outputs against inputs) and re-dispatch the gap.

Message templates

Canonical texts — reuse verbatim, adjusting only bracketed parts. Tone rules: honest about the backlog, no "feel free to reopen", thanks proportional to real effort.

stale-close

Closing this as stale: the branch has merge conflicts with main and hasn't been updated in over a month. The codebase has moved on significantly since this was opened, so this change would need to be redone against the current state anyway.

rebase-request

Sorry for the review backlog — the queue is currently far beyond what a single maintainer can handle. This PR has merge conflicts with main, and I can only review PRs that merge cleanly. If you're still interested in landing this, please rebase — conflicted PRs without activity will eventually be closed as stale.

duplicate-close

Closing as a duplicate of #[N], which will be reviewed instead[: one-clause reason it was kept].

oversized-split (single PR bundling several concerns)

Closing this one. It bundles several unrelated concerns — [list] — into a single [size] change across [n] files, which isn't reviewable in this form. If you'd like to pursue [the worthwhile part], please open an issue first to agree on scope, and then a focused PR for that single concern.

russian-locale (any PR adding Russian localization — this is a standing decision, apply without re-asking)

We’re not accepting Russian localization for OpenChamber.

This is an intentional maintainership decision due to Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine. We don’t want to ship or maintain Russian UI support.

Closing.