merge-risk
Skill630 starsChanged 25 days agoMITView on GitHub
Use when assessing the risk of merging a PR
6 other projects use a version of this, 3 of them edited.
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- bholmesdev/hubble.mdedited, first seen Nov 9, 2026
- moisesrj97/skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 8, 2026
- gilsmt/skillsedited, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- nicknisi/skillsedited, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- connorch/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 13, 2026
- danielgefen/soustheir own version, first seen Aug 25, 2026
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MicrosoftSkillhandoff
Compact the current conversation into a handoff document for another agent to pick up.
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- bholmesdev/hubble.md★ 1.5k99% same
- nicknisi/skills★ 599% same
- gilsmt/skills★ 296% same
Wrote their own version · 3
- connorch/skills★ 2same name
- moisesrj97/skills★ 1same name
- danielgefen/sous★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 6 edited versions we read keep these.
3
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 25
Consider blast radius: potential impact or scope of the changes introduced by this PR.
- Distinctive: line 31
Error detection (poor ⚠️ / decent 👀 / good ✅ / N/A ✅): If applicable, critical flows should be monitored.
- Distinctive: line 55
Keep the numerical score and its calculations internal.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 6 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Output format:
**Merge risk: <low-medium-high>**
**<category>:** <verdict>
<list gaps that increase risk. Use bullets, keep succinct. Include links to relevant files as needed>
<...list all categories>These are the categories and verdicts that affect risk, with descriptions of what "low risk" means:
- Alignment (poor ⚠️ / decent 👀 / good ✅): Code aligns with the description and source issue, when present. Behavior assumptions and drive-bys must be documented.
- Impact (large ⚠️ / medium 👀 / small ✅): Scope is contained and away from sensitive code paths.
- Consider blast radius: potential impact or scope of the changes introduced by this PR. Consider all possibilities. Examples are layout shift, breakages for consumers, mobile responsiveness, etc.
- Sensitive areas carry outsized risk regardless of diff size: auth, permissions, payments, PII, secrets, data migrations, dependency bumps, and infra or config changes. Flag any that are touched, and call out anything that widens access, weakens validation, or logs sensitive data.
- Verification (poor ⚠️ / decent 👀 / good ✅): Behavior is verified, where applicable.
- Changes to the user experience need end-to-end proof as screenshots or recordings. Changes that could meaningfully affect performance need profiling. Prefer before-and-after evidence to standalone proof. When this coverage is lacking, it's a failure.
- Edge cases must be tested, or documented when they aren't; review the code closely and link the user to relevant code when only documentation is present.
- Rollback cost (high ⚠️ / medium 👀 / low ✅): The code is reversible once merged. Consider one-way vs. two-way doors. You can walk back through two-way doors, but not one-way doors. A PR that is cheap to roll back is lower risk. Changes that involve destructive actions or hard-to-reverse decisions are one-way doors.
- Error detection (poor ⚠️ / decent 👀 / good ✅ / N/A ✅): If applicable, critical flows should be monitored; If this breaks in production, someone should find out before users report it. Look for swallowed errors or fallbacks that hide breakage.
Generate a risk score for merging this PR on a scale of low - medium - high.
Verdicts:
- ⚠️ = 3
- 👀 = 2
- ✅ = 1
Weights:
- Impact = 2x
- Verification = 2x
- Rollback cost = 1.5x
- Error detection = 1x
- Alignment = 1x
Score = Σ(score × weight) / Σ(weights).
- low: < 1.5
- medium: 1.5 – < 2.25
- high: ≥ 2.25
Keep the numerical score and its calculations internal; do not include them in the output.
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