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name: pr description: The full pipeline from "code is ready" to "ready to merge" — pre-push verification, three-way self-review, opening the PR, watching CI and review threads. Read BEFORE committing, opening a PR, or checking on an open one.

PR Pipeline

The development flow is: branch off main → write code (discussing requirements with the maintainer) → self-review and fix → open the PR → watch CI and reviews until everything is handled → report that it is ready. The maintainer merges — never merge yourself.

Branch

• Always branch from freshly fetched origin/main — git fetch origin && git checkout -b <type>/<short-topic> origin/main — never from the local main. <type> uses the conventional-commit types, e.g. fix/queue-cancel, refactor/codec-macros.

Pre-push verification (every push, not just the first)

Never push anything unverified — "it compiles" is not verified, and CI is not a debugger.

1. pixi run format.
2. Both test suites pass locally (the test skill): unit tests via pixi run test (builds the debug preset and runs ctest, which handles the snapshot dir), and pixi run integration-test. Every failure on the branch is yours to fix now — even if it looks pre-existing (main is green), and never by skipping, disabling, or weakening the test.

Self-review (before opening)

Commit all work first — the review diff only sees commits, so a dirty worktree means the reviewers inspect an incomplete patch (git status must be clean). Then launch 3 parallel subagents to review the full diff (git diff origin/main...HEAD — never against the local main, which goes stale) independently, and fix everything they report before opening:

1. Correctness reviewer: logic errors, edge cases, undefined behavior, off-by-one mistakes — coroutine lifetime and cancellation paths deserve extra suspicion.
2. Style reviewer: naming conventions, coding style, cpp-style skill rules.
3. Test reviewer: new functionality has tests, edge cases are covered, no existing tests were broken or weakened.

Opening

• Confirm with the maintainer before creating the PR.
• Title follows the conventional commit format — it becomes the squash-merge commit on main.
• Body: a concise summary of what changed and why. Never reference local file paths, private notes, or other material a reader without this machine cannot see.

Watching

This is a sustained loop, not a single check — reviews and CI both take time, and a PR typically needs several rounds of check-and-fix before it is truly settled. Do not stop at the first green check.

• Cadence: one check every ~10 minutes by default, via timed wake-ups — never background shell loops. Decide the total number of rounds yourself based on elapsed time and remaining activity.
• Every check covers all three: CI status, unresolved review threads, and the formal review decision (gh pr view --json reviewDecision). A green pipeline with open review comments is not done — review threads must be at zero before the maintainer merges.
• Threads go through the resolve-comments skill: it pulls unresolved threads (by isResolved, never timestamps), applies root-cause fixes in the worktree, resolves the threads, and returns a compact summary — the GraphQL plumbing and comment bodies stay out of the main conversation. A fixed thread is resolved outright; a rebutted thread gets a short reply stating why, then is resolved.
• If resolve-comments left changes in the worktree: run the pre-push verification, then push an ordinary commit — never --amend, never force push. History rewrites destroy review anchors and reviewers' incremental diffs.
• Force push has essentially no legitimate use on a PR branch. The usual temptation — amending fixes into the previous commit to keep the branch "one tidy commit" — buys nothing: the squash merge flattens the branch anyway and only the PR title lands in main history. The single real case is rebasing onto a newer main (e.g. to resolve a conflict), and that requires asking the maintainer first.
• CI failure: reproduce and fix locally, verify, then push. Digest CI logs via a subagent; don't pull raw logs into the main conversation.
• Keep API calls sparse — one batch per check, sleep 1 between gh calls.

Done

• CI fully green, zero unresolved review threads, and no blocking review decision (reviewDecision must not be CHANGES_REQUESTED — a top-level "changes requested" review blocks the merge even after every inline thread is resolved; address its feedback and request a re-review) → report to the maintainer that the PR is ready to merge: a one-paragraph summary of what review found and how it was addressed, plus every design decision taken while resolving threads (chosen vs. alternative), so the maintainer can accept or overturn them in one pass. Then stop — merging is the maintainer's call.
• The default bar stays high: elegant code, edge cases considered. "Merge now, clean up in a dedicated refactor PR later" is a real move in this project, but that trade-off is the maintainer's call, made case by case — never the agent's default.