Create a GitHub PR for the current branch. Use when the user asks to create a PR, send a PR, or invokes /pr.
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---
allowed-tools: [Bash, Glob, Grep, Read, Skill]
argument-hint: "[optional target-org/repo, message hint, or --skip-pr-check]"
description: Create a GitHub PR for the current branch. Use when the user asks to create a PR, send a PR, or invokes /pr.
name: pr
---
# Create a Pull Request
Create a GitHub PR for the current branch, transition the linked Jira tickets to review, and record the PR URL on those tickets.
## Preconditions
- At least one commit adds tests. When none do, ask the user for a rationale and refuse to proceed without one. The only exceptions are PRs with no code changes (e.g., language key updates or markdown changes).
- The current branch is a development branch, not `master` or any other protected branch.
- The `pr-check` skill must pass. Skip only when `${ARGUMENTS}` contains `--skip-pr-check`. A skip requires a reason: take it from the text following the flag when present, otherwise prompt the user for one. The reason is recorded in the **PR Check** section, which is written for a skip rather than omitted.
## Input
### Branch
The current Git branch must contain the commits ready to ship.
### Jira Tickets
A branch may span more than one ticket. Resolve the **ticket set** — every ticket the PR touches.
The ticket key follows the pattern `LPD-12345`, `LCD-12345`, `LRCI-1234`, and similar forms (uppercase letters, hyphen, digits).
Collect every distinct ticket key from the subjects of the branch's commits relative to `master`. Each subject is prefixed with its ticket (`LPD-12345 <subject>`); extract every distinct key, in commit order (oldest first). When no commit carries a ticket, prompt the user for one.
### Target Repository
The target repository defaults to `<fork-owner>/liferay-portal`. When `${ARGUMENTS}` names a different `org/repo`, use that; when it matches an alias below, expand the alias; otherwise, ask the user to choose `<fork-owner>` from one of the team forks:
- `liferay-ac`
- `liferay-appsec`
- `liferay-bpm`
- `liferay-commerce`
- `liferay-content-management`
- `liferay-core-infra`
- `liferay-database-infra`
- `liferay-devtools`
- `liferay-frontend`
- `liferay-headless`
- `liferay-page-management`
- `liferay-platform-experience`
- `liferay-search`
- `liferay-site-management`
The following short aliases resolve to a target repository:
- `brian` → `brianchandotcom/liferay-portal`
The PR head is `<github-username>:<branch-name>` (the GitHub username is read from the user's `origin` remote URL — e.g., `git@github.com:brianchandotcom/liferay-portal.git` yields `brianchandotcom`), and the base is `master`.
## Expected Output
### Pushed Branch
Push the current branch to the user's remote when it has not been pushed yet or when new local commits exist.
### Pull Request
The title is concise (under 72 characters) and prefixed with the key of the first ticket in the set:
```
LPD-83847 Fix OutOfMemoryError during batch engine import
```
The body follows this format, with one `browse` link per ticket in the set:
```markdown
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/TICKET-ID-1
https://liferay.atlassian.net/browse/TICKET-ID-2
## What Is Being Fixed
Explain the problem or bug that motivated the change — what was going wrong or what was missing.
## How It Is Being Fixed
Explain the approach taken across all commits. Describe the key changes and the reasoning behind the approach. Write in plain prose rather than bullet points.
## Why Are There No Tests?
This optional section is only included when the commits do not add any tests. It should contain the rationale provided by the user.
## PR Check
<pr-check Results Summary>
<!-- pr-check {"result": "<state>", "sha": "<tested-SHA>"} -->
```
The **PR Check** section is the Results Summary block emitted by the `pr-check` skill that ran as the precondition — the overall state line, the tested SHA, the table of validations, and every note appended below it, since any row can carry a note, a `PASS` included — pasted verbatim, followed by a hidden marker. The marker is an HTML comment, invisible in rendered Markdown, whose payload is a JSON object of the form `<!-- pr-check {"result": "<state>", "sha": "<tested-SHA>"} -->`, where `<state>` is `success` when the overall state is `PASS` and `failure` when it is `FAIL`, so a run carrying `NOT VERIFIED` rows records `success`, and `<tested-SHA>` is the full 40-character SHA from the Results Summary. The webhook reads the `result` and `sha` fields to apply the `pr-check` commit status to that SHA and the `pr-check - <state>` label to the PR, so this skill records no status or label itself.
When pr-check was skipped via `--skip-pr-check`, still write the section, but as a skip rather than a run. Under the same `## PR Check` heading, the body is a single `**pr-check: SKIPPED** — <reason>` line with no table, and the marker payload adds a `reason` field alongside `result` (set to `skipped`) and the PR head SHA. The JSON object keys are alphabetical (`reason`, `result`, `sha`).
```markdown
**pr-check: SKIPPED** — <reason>
<!-- pr-check {"reason": "<reason>", "result": "skipped", "sha": "<head-SHA>"} -->
```
The webhook applies the status and label when it processes the `pull_request` event for the newly opened PR, so no publish step is needed at creation. Use the `pr-check-publish` skill only to record a later pr-check run on an existing PR.
Use a direct, to-the-point style. Avoid being verbose. Present the proposed title and body to the user before submitting, and proceed once they approve.
Create the pull request with `--body-file`, or with `--body` from a quoted-heredoc variable; either keeps the marker's literal `!` off the command line, where it could otherwise trigger history expansion and corrupt the marker. Use `mktemp` for the file so it stays out of the working tree, and remove it afterward.
```bash
body_file=$(mktemp)
gh pr create \
--base master \
--body-file "${body_file}" \
--head <github-username>:<branch-name> \
--repo <target-org/repo> \
--title "<title>"
rm "${body_file}"
```
### Transitioned Jira Tickets
Apply the steps below to **every ticket in the ticket set**, recording the outcome per ticket and continuing on failure.
For each ticket, fetch it (issue type, status, subtasks) and resolve the **target ticket** — the one whose status reflects active work and on which the PR URL is recorded:
| Ticket Type | Target |
| --- | --- |
| Bug (`10004`) | The bug itself |
| Task (`10002`) | Its Technical Task (`10153`) subtask |
| Technical Task (`10153`) | Itself |
When the target is not already in an in-progress status, transition it first:
| Target Type | Destination | Transition ID |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bug | In Progress | `61` |
| Technical Task | In Progress | `41` |
Then transition it to review:
| Target Type | Destination | Transition ID |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Bug | In Review | `71` |
| Technical Task | In Peer Review | `31` |
When the review transition fails (for example, because the ticket is already in a later status), still proceed to record the PR URL.
Set the **Git Pull Request** field (`customfield_10201`) on the target ticket to the new PR URL.
### Existing Pull Request
This handling applies per target ticket, while recording the PR URL above.
When the **Git Pull Request** field already holds one or more PR URLs, ask the user whether the new PR **supersedes** the existing one or is **added** alongside it.
When the user chooses **supersede**:
1. Overwrite **Git Pull Request** with the new PR URL, dropping the previous value.
1. Add a comment on the previous PR, linking to the new one (for example, `Superseded by <new-pr-url>.`).
1. Close the previous PR when possible. When the user lacks permission to close it directly, add a `ci:close` comment instead, so the CI bot closes it.
When the user chooses **add**:
1. Append the new PR URL to the existing value, separating each URL with a comma and a space.
### Summary
Report back to the user with:
- Each ticket in the set, with its resulting status and link.
- The PR URL.Is this your skill, or is something wrong with this listing? Request removal or report an issue. Author removals are honored within 72 hours.
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