merge-candidates

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a security skill usually runs scanners and checks websites.

By apache/magpie (GitHub) · security · 146 stars · scanned at commit 8d24b52

Identify trivial, low-risk PRs in the `ready for maintainer review` queue of <upstream> that pass every quality gate and touch only supplementary areas (docs, changelog, translations, tests) — the "express lane". Surfaces and ranks candidates with per-PR diff summaries, an all-gates-green attestation, and the exact merge command. On explicit per-PR confirmation it can submit an APPROVE review, exactly as pr-management-code-review does. It never merges itself — automated merge is the deliberatel…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

Runs commands on your computer

This is disclosed by the author in the skill's SKILL.md or README. Expected for a security skill.

Found in 3 places.

plugins/magpie-pr-management/skills/merge-candidates/SKILL.md, line 58PYTHONPATH="$(python3 -I -c 'import hashlib,os,sys;h,d,m,i=sys.argv[1:];r=os.path.realpath(os.curdir);s=os.stat(r);p=os.path.join(h,d,hashlib.sha256(r.encode())
plugins/magpie-pr-management/skills/merge-candidates/SKILL.md, line 220uv run --project ~/.claude/magpie/vetted-ops vetted-op-read --caller pr-management-merge-candidates --save express-ready.json gql-pr-express-ready "ready for ma
plugins/magpie-pr-management/skills/merge-candidates/SKILL.md, line 229uv run --project <framework>/tools/pr-management pr-management quick-merge screen --saved-dir <workspace>/saved \

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 2 places.

AGENTS.md, line 458uv tool install prek # or: pipx install prek
AGENTS.md, line 522`uvx --from ~/.claude/magpie/vetted-ops …`, and `uvx --from ~/.claude/magpie/adversarial-review adversarial-review …`.

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'merge-candidates' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'merge-candidates' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named merge-candidates already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/apache/magpie' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '8d24b52457f7a2731d7cc3329af96430a16715fd' -- 'plugins/magpie-pr-management/skills/merge-candidates' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/magpie-pr-management/skills/merge-candidates' ~/.agents/skills/'merge-candidates' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'merge-candidates' ~/.claude/skills/'merge-candidates' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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Score history

Date	Version	Score
2026-11-13	`8d24b52`	82
2026-11-09	`3fd660b`	82