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babysit-pr

Watch an open PR and fix its CI failures and review feedback until it's clean. Use standalone for a PR you want monitored, or as the babysit step of /ship, which continues through the merge.

Quality

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

96%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is an exemplary operational skill: fully executable commands, a tightly sequenced loop with validation checkpoints and recovery paths, and lean token usage throughout. The only structural improvement would be splitting edge-case sections into reference files to shorten the main SKILL.md.

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Conciseness

The body is lean and assumes competence throughout — no concept explanations, only repo-specific procedure — and even the incident citations ("this left two rounds unanswered on PR #1097", "#8288 patched one resolver about 25 times") are single-clause justifications for rules, matching anchor 5 rather than the trimmable over-explanation of anchor 4.

5 / 5

Actionability

Guidance is fully executable: exact gh commands with explicit --json fields, complete jq pipelines (including the "Bind `.id as $id` first" gotcha), a copy-paste changeset template, and a guarded merge command with concrete path exclusions, matching anchor 5.

5 / 5

Workflow Clarity

The "Each tick" loop is a clear numbered sequence with explicit validation checkpoints (rerun the unreplied-comments query before merging, confirm HEAD equals headRefOid) and error-recovery feedback loops (retry on failed queries, merge-and-repush on rejection), matching anchor 5; the destructive-operation cap does not apply since validation is pervasive.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Sections are well-organized and cross-skill delegation is clearly signaled ("Ownership … all live in `ship`"; "see `factory-run/references/babysit-round.md`"), but everything is inline in a ~160-line file — edge-case procedures like the changeset and pnpm-lock-conflict handling could be split into reference files — so it fits anchor 4 rather than the appropriately split content of anchor 5.

4 / 5

Total

19

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20

Passed

Description

78%Weight 40%Scale 1-5

Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A strong, third-person description with concrete actions, explicit use guidance, and a clearly delineated niche. Its main gap is the absence of concrete user-utterance trigger phrases and natural synonyms that would push completeness and trigger coverage to the top level.

Suggestions

Add concrete user-utterance triggers, e.g. "Use when the user asks to watch, babysit, or keep a PR green, or mentions CI failures or unresolved review comments on a PR".

Include natural synonyms such as "pull request" alongside "PR" to broaden trigger-term coverage.

Name the remaining loop actions explicitly (reply to review threads, push fixes) so the capability list is comprehensive rather than implied by the /ship reference.

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Specificity

The description lists several concrete actions — "Watch an open PR", "fix its CI failures and review feedback" — but "watch" is generic and the rest of the loop (replying, merging) is only implied through the /ship mention, matching anchor 4 rather than the comprehensive coverage of anchor 5.

4 / 5

Completeness

Both parts are present: a clear "what" ("fix its CI failures and review feedback until it's clean") and an explicit use clause ("Use standalone for a PR you want monitored, or as the babysit step of /ship"), but the "when" states invocation modes rather than concrete user-utterance triggers, fitting anchor 4 instead of anchor 5.

4 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

Natural terms like "PR", "CI failures", "review feedback", and "monitored" are present and would be said by users, but common variations such as "pull request", "keep it green", or "fix the build" are missing, placing it at anchor 4 rather than the comprehensive synonym coverage of anchor 5.

4 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The PR-babysitting niche is distinct and the description explicitly delineates its boundary with /ship ("the babysit step of /ship, which continues through the merge"), giving minimal conflict risk and matching anchor 5.

5 / 5

Total

17

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20

Passed

Validation

81%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation — 13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

Warning

metadata_field

'metadata' should map string keys to string values

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

Warning

Total

13

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16

Passed

Repository

BuilderIO/agent-native

Path

.agents/skills/babysit-pr/SKILL.md

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