Pull Request Triage Capability Pack Skill
Expert maintainer pull request triage capability pack for classifying open PRs, applying labels, routing reviewers, checking merge readiness, and producing privacy-safe queue summaries using GitHub pull request documentation workflows.
Open the source and read safety notes before installing.
Safety notes
- Treat label changes, reviewer requests, milestone moves, and merge approvals as governance actions requiring maintainer approval.
- Do not merge or close pull requests from triage output alone unless explicit automation policy exists.
- Escalate suspected security, license, or conduct issues to private maintainer channels instead of public PR threads.
- Rate-limit bulk triage actions to avoid notification storms for contributors and reviewers.
Privacy notes
- Pull request diffs and comments can contain proprietary code, customer examples, tokens, and internal URLs.
- Queue summaries for shared channels should use PR numbers, labels, and blocker types—not pasted diffs or secrets.
- Contributor identities and employer hints in PR descriptions may be sensitive; avoid unnecessary quoting in public notes.
- Exported triage reports should follow repository data-retention and contributor privacy policies.
Prerequisites
- Open pull request queue or filtered PR list with repository contribution and review policies.
- Current label taxonomy, CODEOWNERS rules, required checks, and maintainer ownership map.
- Permission scope stated up front: read-only recommendations versus approved label or assignment edits.
- Access to linked issues, CI status, release milestones, and security disclosure policy when routing.
Schema details
- Install type
- package
- Reading time
- 9 min
- Difficulty score
- 74
- Troubleshooting
- Yes
- Breaking changes
- No
- Scope
- Source repo
- Skill type
- capability-pack
- Skill level
- expert
- Verification
- validated
- Verified at
- 2026-06-15
| Platform | Support | Install path |
|---|---|---|
| claude-code | Native | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md |
| codex | Native | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md |
| windsurf | Native | .windsurf/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md |
| gemini | Native | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md or .agents/skills/<skill-name>/SKILL.md |
| cursor | Adapter | .cursor/rules/<skill-name>.mdc |
| cli | Manual | AGENTS.md or tool-specific context file |
Full copyable content
# Trigger
"Apply the pull request triage capability pack for this maintainer queue."
# Required output
1) PR classification and priority tier
2) Label and reviewer routing recommendations
3) Merge readiness and blocker checklist
4) Maintainer action plan with human-approval gates
5) Privacy-safe queue summaryAbout this resource
Knowledge Freshness
This capability pack is grounded in GitHub pull request, label, and filter documentation plus Claude Code sub-agents guidance verified on 2026-06-15. GitHub UI labels and required checks evolve; prefer live docs over cached queue assumptions.
Retrieval Sources
- https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/reviewing-changes-in-pull-requests/about-pull-request-reviews
- https://docs.github.com/en/issues/tracking-your-work-with-issues/filtering-and-searching-issues-and-pull-requests
- https://docs.github.com/en/issues/using-labels-and-milestones-to-track-work/managing-labels
- https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents
- https://opensource.guide/best-practices/
- https://developers.google.com/search/docs/fundamentals/creating-helpful-content
Source Verification Notes
Verified against public GitHub pull request and label documentation on 2026-06-15:
- GitHub documents pull request reviews as comment, approve, or request-changes actions with required reviewer rules and review states such as approved, changes requested, and pending.
- Filter documentation supports queue views by author, label, review state, milestone, and draft status for maintainer backlog management.
- Label documentation describes creating, editing, and applying labels that route work to the right maintainers and automation.
- Claude Code sub-agents documentation describes isolated review workers that return summaries instead of flooding the parent session with full diffs.
- Open Source Guides best practices emphasize clear contribution expectations and responsive maintainer communication for community PRs.
Scope Note
This is a community reusable maintainer workflow skill—not an official GitHub or Anthropic product. It applies documented GitHub pull request triage steps for queue classification, routing, and merge readiness review. Code-level security review automation is covered separately by code-review capability packs.
Core Workflow
- Snapshot the queue: open PR count, age bands, draft versus ready-for-review splits.
- Filter by review state, labels, author, milestone, and failing checks per GitHub filter docs.
- Classify each PR: bugfix, feature, docs, dependency, chore, breaking, or needs-info.
- Check merge blockers: failing CI, unresolved review threads, missing CLA, or draft status.
- Propose label updates and CODEOWNERS-aligned reviewer requests with human approval.
- Identify PRs ready to merge versus those needing contributor follow-up or maintainer escalation.
- Optionally delegate read-only diff summarization to Claude Code subagents for large PRs.
- Produce a privacy-safe maintainer queue summary with next actions and owners.
Capability Scope
- Queue classification and priority tiers for maintainers.
- Label and reviewer routing recommendations from documented GitHub workflows.
- Merge readiness and blocker checklists tied to review states and checks.
- Human-approval gates before mutating labels, assignments, or merge decisions.
- Privacy-safe queue summaries for maintainer standups and handoffs.
Compatibility
Native
- Claude Code / Claude: use as an Agent Skill during maintainer office hours or weekly PR queue reviews.
Manual Adaptation
- Codex, Cursor, Generic AGENTS: apply the triage checklist in team runbooks when reviewing GitHub pull request backlogs.
Required Inputs
- Repository PR list or saved filter URL.
- Label taxonomy, CODEOWNERS, branch protection, and required check names.
- Maintainer ownership map and escalation paths for security or conduct issues.
- Optional: CI failure summaries and linked issue context per PR.
Production Rules
- Default to read-only triage recommendations; require maintainer approval before edits.
- Never merge from triage output without explicit human authorization.
- Require evidence links (check name, review thread, file path) for merge blockers.
- Batch label or reviewer changes to reduce contributor notification noise.
- Escalate security-sensitive PRs to private disclosure workflows.
- Close triage with explicit next owner per PR tier.
Review Matrix
| PR signal | Triage action | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Approved + green checks | Ready for maintainer merge review | Documented review approval path |
| Changes requested | Route back to author | Review state blocks merge |
| Large diff, low risk | Subagent summary only | Isolated context per sub-agents docs |
| Failing required check | Label blocked-by-ci | Merge readiness gate |
| Missing reproduction | Request info label | Open source best practice |
| Suspected secret in diff | Stop public triage | Privacy and security escalation |
Output Contract
- PR classification and priority tier.
- Label and reviewer routing recommendations.
- Merge readiness and blocker checklist.
- Maintainer action plan with approval gates.
- Privacy-safe queue summary.
Troubleshooting
Issue: Filter returns stale draft PRs Fix: Apply draft and review-state filters documented in GitHub issue and PR search docs.
Issue: CODEOWNERS requests wrong team Fix: Verify path rules and default branch; propose manual reviewer instead of auto-request.
Issue: Subagent summary misses blocker Fix: Parent session validates summary against failing checks and unresolved review threads.
Duplicate Check
Checked content/skills/, content/guides/, content/agents/, open PRs, and
the live catalog for maintainer PR triage workflows. subagents-code-review-triage
is a guide focused on subagent review roles. coderabbit-lite-pr-review-capability-pack
targets code-review automation findings. No skills entry provides this reusable
maintainer PR queue triage capability pack with review matrix and output contract.
Editorial Disclosure
Submitted as an independent source-backed HeyClaude content entry by kiannidev.
It is based on public GitHub documentation, Claude Code sub-agents documentation,
Open Source Guides, and Google Search Central helpful-content guidance. No paid
placement, referral link, affiliate link, or vendor sponsorship is used.
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| Trust | |||
| Install risk | Review first | Review first | Review first |
| Notes | Safety ✓ Privacy ✓ | Safety ✓ Privacy ✓ | Safety ✓ Privacy ✓ |
| Category | skills | skills | skills |
| Source | source-backed | source-backed | source-backed |
| Author | kiannidev | kiannidev | kiannidev |
| Added | 2026-06-15 | 2026-06-14 | 2026-06-14 |
| Platforms | Claude CodeCodexWindsurfGeminiCursorCLI | Claude CodeCodexWindsurfGeminiCursorCLI | Claude CodeCodexWindsurfGeminiCursorCLI |
| Source repo | — | — | — |
| Safety notes | ✓Treat label changes, reviewer requests, milestone moves, and merge approvals as governance actions requiring maintainer approval. Do not merge or close pull requests from triage output alone unless explicit automation policy exists. Escalate suspected security, license, or conduct issues to private maintainer channels instead of public PR threads. Rate-limit bulk triage actions to avoid notification storms for contributors and reviewers. | ✓This skill plans Agent SDK subagent orchestration; it must not execute destructive changes without explicit approval. Browser, computer-use, and remote surfaces can access sensitive UI state; scope tests carefully. MCP and SDK integrations may exfiltrate data if tool scopes are too broad. The public `anthropics/claude-code` repository ships documentation links to code.claude.com for settings, security, and integration surfaces. Scheduled or autonomous workflows compound risk; cap blast radius in staging first. | ✓This skill plans MCP tool search scaling; it must not execute destructive changes without explicit approval. Browser, computer-use, and remote surfaces can access sensitive UI state; scope tests carefully. MCP and SDK integrations may exfiltrate data if tool scopes are too broad. The public `anthropics/claude-code` repository ships documentation links to code.claude.com for settings, security, and integration surfaces. Scheduled or autonomous workflows compound risk; cap blast radius in staging first. |
| Privacy notes | ✓Pull request diffs and comments can contain proprietary code, customer examples, tokens, and internal URLs. Queue summaries for shared channels should use PR numbers, labels, and blocker types—not pasted diffs or secrets. Contributor identities and employer hints in PR descriptions may be sensitive; avoid unnecessary quoting in public notes. Exported triage reports should follow repository data-retention and contributor privacy policies. | ✓Reviews may expose integration tokens, customer metadata, and internal URLs related to Agent SDK subagent orchestration. Telemetry and analytics configs can include account emails; redact before sharing externally. Keep troubleshooting logs in internal channels unless explicitly sanitized. Third-party vendors remain outside Anthropic retention policies; document separately. | ✓Reviews may expose integration tokens, customer metadata, and internal URLs related to MCP tool search scaling. Telemetry and analytics configs can include account emails; redact before sharing externally. Keep troubleshooting logs in internal channels unless explicitly sanitized. Third-party vendors remain outside Anthropic retention policies; document separately. |
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