pr-triage

name: pr-triage description: Audit open PRs across multiple repos for duplicates, stale drafts, Renovate noise, and conflicts. Produces a unified priority report. allowed-tools: Bash, Read, Grep, Glob, Agent argument-hint: '[owner/repo1 owner/repo2 ...] or blank for current repo'

PR triage across repositories

Audit open PRs across one or more GitHub repositories and produce a single prioritized report.

Argument handling

$ARGUMENTS is a space-separated list of owner/repo identifiers. If empty, use the current repo (from gh repo view --json nameWithOwner --jq .nameWithOwner).

Workflow

Phase 1: Gather PR data

For each repo, spawn a parallel Agent that runs:

gh pr list -R {repo} --state open --json number,title,author,createdAt,isDraft,labels,headRefName,baseRefName,mergeable,reviewDecision,updatedAt

Phase 2: Per-PR analysis

For each open PR, the agent evaluates:

Stale drafts

Flag drafts where updatedAt is more than 7 days ago. Include age in days.

Duplicate detection

Compare PR titles and branch names within the same repo. Flag pairs where:

• Titles share 3+ significant words (ignoring "fix", "update", "bump", "chore").
• Branch names share the same verb-noun prefix (e.g., two fix-typos-* branches).

Renovate PR analysis

For PRs authored by renovate[bot] or app/renovate:

1. Fetch the diff: gh pr diff -R {repo} {number}.
2. Classify:
   • Version bump: changelog entries show actual version changes. Mark as merge-ready.
   • SHA-only: diff changes only pinned commit SHAs with no version change (e.g., annotated tag re-point). Flag as cosmetic.
   • Major update: major version bump. Flag for manual review.
3. Check for Renovate PRs that update the same package — these are superseded duplicates.

Conflict detection

Compare headRefName across open PRs. Flag PRs that modify the same files (fetch file lists with gh pr view -R {repo} {number} --json files --jq '.files[].path'). Two PRs touching the same file are potential conflicts.

Phase 3: Unified report

Merge results from all agents into one table, sorted by priority:

| Repo | PR | Title | Author | Age | Status | Action |

Status values:

• merge — Tests pass, approved, no conflicts. Merge-ready.
• review — Needs review (non-draft, no review decision yet).
• stale — Draft or non-draft with no activity for 7+ days.
• cosmetic — Renovate SHA-only update, low priority.
• conflict — Touches files that overlap with another open PR.
• duplicate — Likely duplicate of another open PR.
• major — Major dependency bump, needs manual assessment.

After the table, list:

1. Merge-ready PRs that can be merged immediately.
2. Duplicates with a recommendation on which to keep (prefer the older or more complete one).
3. Stale drafts with a recommendation to close or revive.
4. Conflicts with the specific files that overlap.

Important rules

• Use gh CLI for all GitHub API interactions.
• Spawn one Agent per repo to parallelize data gathering.
• Do not merge, close, or comment on PRs. Report only.
• Keep the output scannable. Tables over prose.
• If a repo has more than 50 open PRs, focus on the 50 most recently updated.