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name: close-feature-pr description: Merge and close a feature PR with gh after a quick PR hygiene review (title, required sections, testing notes) aligned with create-feature-pr. Use when the user asks to merge/close a feature PR, delete the remote branch, and do post-merge cleanup.

Close Feature PR

Contract

Prereqs:

• Run inside the target git repo.
• git and gh available on PATH, and gh auth status succeeds.
• Working tree clean (git status --porcelain=v1 is empty).

Inputs:

• PR number (or current-branch PR).
• Optional: merge readiness decisions (draft → ready; checks pass).

Outputs:

• PR merged (default merge commit) and remote branch deleted.
• Local checkout switched back to base branch and updated; local feature branch deleted (best-effort).

Exit codes:

• 0: success
• non-zero: checks failing, PR not mergeable, auth issues, or git/gh command failures

Failure modes:

• PR is draft (must confirm and mark ready first).
• Required checks failing or branch not mergeable.
• Missing gh auth or insufficient permissions.

Setup

• Ensure gh auth status succeeds.
• Load local helper commands (optional): source $AGENT_KIT_HOME/scripts/kit-tools.sh

When to use

• The user asks to merge/close a PR and clean up the feature branch.

Workflow

1. Identify the PR number
   • Prefer current branch PR: gh pr view --json number -q .number
2. Preflight
   • Ensure working tree is clean: git status --porcelain=v1 should be empty
   • Ensure checks pass: gh pr checks <pr>
   • Ensure PR is not draft: gh pr view <pr> --json isDraft -q .isDraft should be false (if true, confirm with the user then run gh pr ready <pr>)
3. Review PR hygiene (aligned with create-feature-pr)
   • Title reflects feature outcome; capitalize the first word.
   • PR body includes: Summary, Changes, Testing, Risk / Notes.
   • If PR body includes Open Questions and/or Next Steps and they are not already - None, update them to the latest status (resolve questions or confirm with the user, check off completed steps, link follow-ups).
   • Testing records results (pass/failed/skipped) and reasons if not run.
   • If edits are needed: use gh pr edit <pr> --title ... / gh pr edit <pr> --body-file ....
4. Merge and delete branch
   • Default merge method: merge commit
   • gh pr merge <pr> --merge --delete-branch
5. Local cleanup
   • Resolve refs:
     • baseRefName="$(gh pr view <pr> --json baseRefName -q .baseRefName)"
     • headRefName="$(gh pr view <pr> --json headRefName -q .headRefName)"
   • git switch "$baseRefName" && git pull --ff-only
   • Delete local feature branch if it still exists: git branch -d "$headRefName"

Optional helper script

• Use scripts/close_feature_pr.sh in this skill folder to run a deterministic merge + cleanup.
• If scripts/close_feature_pr.sh fails, attempt to fix the underlying cause (prefer fixing the script when it's a script bug, otherwise fix the documented prerequisites/workflow), re-run it, and explicitly report whether the fix succeeded.