Open a pull request for a finished branch

What this does

implement-issue opens its draft PR before any work lands. A branch built any other way — a fix committed by hand, a spike that turned out right, or a fix debug-issue left sitting on the default branch itself — needs a way to become a PR the way the kit expects. This skill is that way: /create-pr [#<issue>] [--draft] takes the work off the default branch first when that's where it sits, pushes it through the guard, decides ready or draft, and opens the PR through ../_shared/open-pr.md — the one home of the existence lookup, the title gate and the create call. Then it hands off to merge-pr.

Autonomy contract

Run hands-off once started. See ADR 0005 for the decision scope: pick the reasonable default, state the assumption, keep going. Stop only for a genuine blocker:

• gh not authenticated, or no push rights.
• A Step 2 refusal — a detached HEAD, a leftover [DEBUG- probe on the default branch, nothing ahead of it, a closed issue. Each one refuses before any write. A dirty tree no longer refuses — Step 2 commits it, through the guard.
• A PR already open for this branch or its issue: report it, open none.
• A guard exit that is not a success, or a readback that does not match — including rewind-default.sh's exit 3 (the default is left ahead of origin/$DEFAULT, reported, never retried).

A red Full test is not a blocker. It opens a draft and says why, so nobody merges it by mistake.

Checklist

Create a task per item and work them in order.

1. Preconditions — profile, gh auth, commit identity.
2. Locate the work — off the default branch first when that's where it sits, its issue, the refusals and the existing-PR lookup.
3. Open — guarded push, ready or draft, the body, the shared PR-open recipe, then rewind the default when Step 2 branched off it.
4. Recap — the shared closing shape (../_shared/recap.md), Next /merge-pr #<pr>.

Resume-safe: a re-run finds the PR an earlier run opened (the recipe's §1) and stops on it.

How to read this skill

One step file at a time, when you reach it — never all up front. Every token loaded here is re-read on every later turn, so the step bodies live under references/steps/. Open a step when its checklist item starts; the shared references it names load the same way.

• Step 1 — references/steps/01-preconditions.md · reads _shared/preconditions.md
• Step 2 — references/steps/02-locate-the-work.md · reads _shared/open-pr.md
• Step 3 — references/steps/03-open.md · reads _shared/open-pr.md, _shared/guard-invocation.md
• Step 4 — references/steps/04-recap.md · reads _shared/recap.md