PR Shepherd

Drive an open PR through the merge bottleneck: feedback, rebase, conflicts, CI.

When to Use

A PR is open and needs to land — review threads to resolve, a stale branch, conflicts, or red CI.

Steps

1. Check PR status: review comments, CI state, mergeability, branch staleness.
2. Triage review feedback — for each item: address it, push back with reasoning, or explicitly defer it. Say which.
3. Make changes as focused follow-up commits; reply to each thread.
4. Rebase or merge the base branch when behind; resolve conflicts deliberately.
5. Re-run CI; if it fails, fix the root cause.
6. Re-request review. Repeat until merged.