Open draft pr

Skill ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft/skills/open-draft-pr

Use in /implement after committing, to push the feature branch and open a draft PR, returning the PR ref. Thin and GitHub-specific (gh) behind a host-neutral contract. Transitional — removed under the post-v1 flow simplification. Project-overridable for provisioning-heavy open steps.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft --skill open-draft-pr

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runs commandsInstructs the agent to run 3 commands, including `git push -u origin <branch>` and 2 more.

SKILL.md

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Open Draft PR

Opens the draft PR that /implement's review step runs inside. Thin: push the branch, create a draft PR, return its ref. The PR is a draft (not ready) so review happens before it's "real" — and so pr-review-toolkit's PR-framed agents (when used via the agent-review ceiling) have a PR object to attach to.

All GitHub/gh coupling lives here and in publish-pr; the recipe and the other primitives stay host-agnostic.

Input

branch — the feature branch (from repo-setup), already committed.
title, body — composed by the recipe from the plan-file / ticket.

Steps

Push the branch and set upstream if it isn't on the remote yet: git push -u origin <branch>.
Idempotency — if a PR already exists for this branch (gh pr list --head <branch> returns one), return its ref instead of creating a duplicate (gh pr create errors when one exists).
Open a draft PR: gh pr create --draft --title "<title>" --body "<body>" — base = the repo's default branch, head = the current branch (gh infers both; pass --base/--head explicitly if those defaults don't apply). Add per-repo flags (labels, reviewers) per the project's agent-instruction file.
Capture and return the PR ref (number + URL) from the gh output.

Output / contract

In: a committed branch + PR title/body.
Out: the draft PR ref (number/URL), surfaced so agent-review and publish-pr can target it.
Side effects: pushes the branch (network write); creates a draft PR. Nothing merged or marked ready.

Project overrides

Provisioning-heavy open steps — a repo with a scripted opener (e.g. domainator's create-pr.sh: templated body, labels, linked issues) overrides this, keeping the contract (branch → PR ref).

Future scope

Transitional. Under the post-v1 flow simplification (review the branch directly, no draft PR), this primitive is removed and publish-pr absorbs PR creation. Keep it thin so its removal is cheap.

What ships with it

Read from the repository

Just SKILL.md. No reference files, no scripts.