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PR Gardening skill

pr-gardeningpaperclipai/paperclip.agents/skills/pr-gardening/SKILL.md

Discover the pull requests this Paperclip instance opened (never community contributions), report what each is for and how confident we are that it is merge-ready, and automatically drive the non-ready ones back to green with /prepare-paperclip-pr — without ever merging.

106kMIT

always on

56 tokname + description

once used

2,867 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

55 scripts

repo stars

106kGitHub

Install the PR Gardening skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip --skill pr-gardening

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/paperclipai/paperclip.git /tmp/paperclip
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/paperclip/.agents/skills/pr-gardening ~/.claude/skills/pr-gardening

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

WhenWhat loadsCost
Every sessionName and description56 tok
When the agent uses itThe SKILL.md instructions2,867 tok
Only if opened5 bundled files (40 KB)varies

Until it is used, pr-gardening costs about 24× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 82 skills from paperclipai/paperclip would load 3,485 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

  • Ships scripts the agent can run. Read them before installing.

Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Bash(node:*), Bash(gh:*), Bash(curl:*). The agent can use these without asking while the skill is active.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

  • PR Gardening
  • Scope — Our PRs Only
  • Hard Guardrails
  • Inputs
  • Stage A — Discover Candidates
  • Stage B — Verify Current-Head Readiness
  • Follow-up Create-PR Task Deduplication
  • Stage C — Drive Our PRs to Ready with /prepare-paperclip-pr
  • Stage D — Optional Inbox Tidy-Up
  • Stage E — Monitor to Termination
  • Stage F — Render and Publish the Report
  • Verification

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