Skills warpdotdev common-skills
write-pr-description
- Use it when:
- The agent opens a PR, fills a repo's PR template, or refreshes a description that no longer matches the branch.
- It does:
- Reads commit bodies before the diff, checks their claims against the code, follows the repo's template, then cuts every paragraph that helps no review decision.
- You get:
- A PR body that opens with what and why, records decisions with the alternatives they beat, and says plainly what was and wasn't run.
- Unlike Matt Pocock's pr:
- That one draws a visual summary; this one writes plain prose, with a reading order and focus areas only when a change warrants them.
- Covers:
- The body only, not the mechanics of opening the PR.
TL;DR
Warp's guide to PR descriptions, built on one idea: give the reviewer what the diff can't. The agent first gathers the motivation, the linked issue or spec, real decisions, the blast radius and the validation, from git log and diff or from gh for a PR number, and verifies claims by looking, such as reading what the change deletes or grepping a flag before saying it's on. A repo's PR template is followed, its own instructions first: headings stay as written, every section gets an answer, even a one-clause no, boxes are ticked only when true, and machine-read markers are kept. Without a template it writes an opening paragraph, then a review guide when needed, What changed and Validation, dropping sections on small changes. Validation is reported honestly: nothing ran, CI will show it, tests added but unrun, or it couldn't be run, never intent written as a result. Prose follows ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English. The cut pass removes what the diff already shows, test inventories, explanations of standard tools and anything said twice, but keeps decisions and open questions. A self-check and a list of anti-patterns, such as narrating the branch's history or grading your own work, close it.
Summarizes the skill at 8792394.
npx skills add https://github.com/warpdotdev/common-skills --skill write-pr-description skills.sh pageSource on GitHubAll skills from warpdotdev/common-skills
- Total Downloads
- 6,200 on skills.sh, Nov 9, 2026
- Repo stars
- 678 warpdotdev/common-skills
- First seen
- Aug 24, 2026 on skills.sh
Weekly values
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| Sep 21 | 643 |
| Sep 28 | 588 |
| Oct 5 | 927 |
| Oct 12 | 498 |
| Oct 19 | 366 |
| Oct 26 | 365 |
| Nov 2 | 113 |
| Nov 9 | 88 |
| Category |
Test-first work, implementation from specs, git hygiene and scope control. Articles, docs, internal comms, research write-ups and prose that doesn't read as generated. Everything for building software: planning, coding, debugging, design, frameworks, cloud, agents and skills. |
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| Type |
A multi-step process the agent follows: interview, debug, run a TDD loop, review. |
| Effect |
Adds no side effects of its own. It shapes how the agent thinks, writes or reviews. Guidelines and routers are always effect:none, even when the task they support edits code. |
| Needs |
Instructions only. Works in any agent that supports skills. |
| Publisher |
Everyone else. Unverified vendor claims default to community. |
| Topics |
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