distill-pr-intent - SKILL.md Agent Skill

name: distill-pr-intent description: Side-effect-free distillation of a single OpenClaw PR into a short intent memo (stdout-only). user-invocable: false

Distill PR Intent (single PR, stdout-only)

Goal

Given one PR number in openclaw/openclaw, output a short memo answering:

What was the author trying to accomplish (motivation / problem framing / bet), as evidenced by the code change?

Inputs

Required: PR number (assume repo openclaw/openclaw).

Rules

No external side effects: no comments, labels, merges, pushes.
Prefer code-derived intent. PR title/body are secondary.
Do not guess. If intent is unclear from artifacts, say so.
Keep output short + stable. No telemetry/timing in the memo.

Output format (stdout)

PR INTENT (openclaw#<PR>)

<free prose, up to ~5 sentences; keep under ~10 lines>

Mechanical steps (deterministic)

Work in the OpenClaw repo worktree tooling:

cd /var/lib/clawd/repos/openclaw
scripts/pr review-init <PR>
scripts/pr review-checkout-pr <PR>

source .local/review-context.env

Gather diff artifacts:

git diff --name-status "$MERGE_BASE"..HEAD > .local/intent.name-status.txt
git diff --stat "$MERGE_BASE"..HEAD > .local/intent.stat.txt

# Patch budget: 200KB
patch_bytes=$(git diff "$MERGE_BASE"..HEAD | wc -c | tr -d ' ')
if [ "$patch_bytes" -le 200000 ]; then
  git diff "$MERGE_BASE"..HEAD > .local/intent.patch.txt
  echo PATCH_OK > .local/intent.patch-mode.txt
else
  : > .local/intent.patch.txt
  echo TOO_LONG > .local/intent.patch-mode.txt
fi

Distill intent:

If PATCH_OK: infer intent from .local/intent.patch.txt.
If TOO_LONG: infer intent from .local/intent.name-status.txt + .local/intent.stat.txt.

If multiple intents exist, mention 2–3 briefly.

If nothing coherent: say Intent unclear: ....