Open a pull request

Work the steps in order. A pair of hooks runs alongside them and refuses the shortcuts. A direct gh pr create is out, so is a gh pr edit rewriting the title or body, and so is any publish whose description the reviewer hasn't seen in its current form.

This skill ends when the pull request is open. From there watch-pr, fix-pr, and merge-pr take over, and step 8 routes to whichever the operator asked for.

Preflight

!bash ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scripts/preflight.sh

Step 0: the checklist

Track these steps with the session's task-list tools where it carries them. Newer harnesses leave those tools out by default, and a session without them works the list in order as written.