pr-description-skill

82 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By microsoft/apm (GitHub) · coding · 4,330 stars · scanned at commit 59549ac

Use this skill to write the PR description (PR body) for any pull request opened against microsoft/apm. Produces one self-sufficient GitHub-Flavored Markdown artifact: TL;DR, Problem (WHY), Approach (WHAT), Implementation (HOW), 1-3 validated mermaid diagrams, explicit trade-offs, validation evidence, and a How-to-test section -- with every WHY-claim backed by a verbatim quote from PROSE or Agent Skills. Activate when the user asks to "write a PR description", "draft a PR body", "open a PR", "f…

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 coding skill.

Found in 1 place.

.agents/skills/pr-description-skill/SKILL.md, line 259awk '/^```mermaid/{n++; f=outdir"/diag"n".mmd"; getline; while($0 != "```") {print > f; getline}}' outdir=/tmp/mermaid-check pr-body-draft.md

Downloads and installs other software

The author does not mention this.

Found in 1 place.

.agents/skills/pr-description-skill/SKILL.md, line 261npx --yes -p @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli mmdc -i "$f" -o "${f%.mmd}.svg" --quiet || { echo "INVALID: $f"; exit 1; }

Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'pr-description-skill' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'pr-description-skill' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named pr-description-skill already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/microsoft/apm' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '59549aca5d39f2bf8cc6b15a62016a2a42746a54' -- '.agents/skills/pr-description-skill' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'.agents/skills/pr-description-skill' ~/.agents/skills/'pr-description-skill' && 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/'pr-description-skill' ~/.claude/skills/'pr-description-skill' (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
2026-11-11	`59549ac`	82
2026-11-08	`2920043`	82
2026-11-07	`2920043`	82

Also found in

Identical copies of this skill exist at:

microsoft/apm/packages/pr-description-skill