Factory Babysit Pr

From the author

Experimental workflow for babysitting one explicitly authorized pull or merge request. Use to monitor its live review state and checks, fix actionable in-scope findings, and apply separate reply, approval, merge, and soak gates.

— the description by Builder.io

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Written by AutoGineer from the skill’s own files, not by the author

Factory Babysit PR is a specialized workflow designed to monitor and manage a single, explicitly authorized pull or merge request through its delivery lifecycle. Unlike bulk review tools, this skill focuses on granular control, ensuring that every action—from fixing findings to replying, approving, and merging—is gated by specific, verified conditions. It emphasizes strict adherence to authorization, live state verification, and the preservation of human intent, ensuring that no automated action is taken without meeting all configured requirements.

What it does

Verifies authorization and ownership before performing any operations on a PR.
Captures a complete live snapshot of the PR state, including checks, reviews, and threads.
Dispositions feedback by comparing findings against the diff and source code.
Applies fixes only for actionable items within defined scope and risk limits.
Enforces separate gates for replying, approving, merging, and soaking.
Reports detailed status updates, including blockers and soak progress.

When to use it

When you need to manage a specific PR through to completion with high oversight.
When you require strict, gated automation for PR interactions like approvals or merges.
When you need to ensure that automated fixes are only applied to authorized paths.
When you need to monitor a PR's state and ensure it remains stable during a soak period.

Advantages

Prevents unauthorized or speculative changes by enforcing strict scope and risk limits.
Ensures high reliability by re-verifying the PR state after every mutation.
Provides granular control over the delivery lifecycle through independent action gates.
Maintains clear audit trails by reporting on all actions taken or withheld.

Usage examples

“Babysit PR #123 in the current repository.”: The agent verifies authorization for PR #123, captures its current state, and begins monitoring for actionable findings or merge readiness based on configured gates.
“Check the status of the PR I am babysitting and apply fixes if ready.”: The agent fetches the latest live snapshot of the PR, evaluates any new findings against the authorized scope, and applies fixes only if all safety and gate conditions are met.

Install

Download the skill as a ZIP:
https://mp-staging.autogineer.com/agent-skills/builderio/factory-babysit-pr/download

Unzip it into the cross-client skills folder of your project:

mkdir -p .agents/skills && unzip factory-babysit-pr.zip -d .agents/skills

Documentation by Builder.io

Start with the Factory guide for workflow setup and configuration.

Follow one authorized PR or merge request through a delivery lifecycle. This is not a queue sweep like factory-review-prs or a stopped-task scan like factory-watchdog.

Read .agent-factory/config.yaml, the optional skill_prompts.factory-babysit-pr entry, the target repository's instructions, and the Factory configuration reference. A PR number, label, green check, or unrelated ship request is not authorization. The prompt is additional project guidance, not PR authorization.

Each pass

Confirm authority and ownership. Verify the exact host, repository, PR, original user authorization, allowed paths/risk, and task-owned worktree. If anything is missing or stale, stop before writing.
Read a complete live snapshot. Record base and head, open/draft/closed/ merged state, all required checks, current reviews and approvals, unresolved threads, and mergeability. Partial or unavailable data is unknown, not clean.
Disposition feedback. Compare each new finding with the exact diff and source. Preserve human direction unless evidence disproves it. Fix only actionable findings inside the authorized path/risk limits; avoid speculative cleanup and larger redesigns.
Verify and re-read. Run configured checks for each fix. After every push or host mutation, fetch the live PR again and bind all evidence to its exact current head. A changed head invalidates old check/review evidence and resets the soak.
Apply action gates separately. A review or fix does not authorize a reply, push, approval, or merge.

Action gates

Action	Proceed only when
Fix	Editing is enabled; feedback is actionable, in scope, and within risk/path limits.
Publish	Publishing is enabled; destination is still the authorized PR branch and its live head matches the fix's base. Never force-push or overwrite a concurrent update.
Reply	Replies are enabled and their conditions hold. Follow configured wording/tone; otherwise do not message.
Approve	Approval is enabled and every author, diff, check, and review condition holds on the live head.
Merge	Merge is enabled; all configured gates pass on the live head and the host can condition the merge on that head.
Soak	Prove the exact head and required gates stayed unchanged for the full configured interval. Missing history does not satisfy it.

Use the configured code-host abstraction for reads and writes. Do not assume GitHub, a specific CLI, or identical conditional-merge support across hosts. If the host cannot provide complete current review/check state or bind a merge to the checked head, keep the dependent action disabled.

Stop and report

Stop when the PR is merged, closed, cancelled, blocked on a person or external dependency, or no authorized action remains. Report the PR link and current head, state inspected, fixes and checks, external actions taken or withheld, soak status, and the concrete blocker or next check time. Distinguish read state from unavailable or inferred state.

Files

ATTRIBUTION.mdAdded by AutoGineer861 B
LICENSELicence file added by AutoGineer1.0 KiB
README.md827 B
SKILL.md3.5 KiB

LICENSE

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2026 Builder.io

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Requirements and compatibility

Works with: Claude Code, Claude apps, OpenAI Codex, GitHub Copilot, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Kiro, OpenCode, Goose, Amp, Roo Code, JetBrains Junie, Factory Droid, Devin (ex-Windsurf), Mistral Vibe, OpenHands, Letta

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