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review-open-pull-requests

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List and analyze all open pull requests across GitHub repositories. Shows review status, CI/CD check results, age, and reviewers. Use when triaging PRs, checking team velocity, or identifying stale reviews that need attention.

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Review Open Pull Requests

Retrieve all open pull requests across configured repositories and present an organized view of their status, reviewers, CI results, and staleness.

Instructions

  1. Fetch open PRs using the GitHub agent. For each PR, collect:
    • PR number, title, and author
    • Repository name
    • Branch name (head -> base)
    • Review status (approved, changes requested, pending review, no reviewers)
    • CI/CD check status (passing, failing, pending)
    • Labels and draft status
    • Age (time since creation) and last activity
  2. Categorize PRs by urgency:
    • Needs Immediate Attention: Failing CI, changes requested, or stale (>5 days no activity)
    • Ready to Merge: Approved with passing checks
    • In Progress: Draft PRs or pending reviews
    • Blocked: Has blocked or do-not-merge labels
  3. Provide summary statistics:
    • Total open PRs
    • Average age of open PRs
    • PRs without reviewers assigned
    • PRs with failing checks

Output Format

## Open Pull Requests Summary

**Total**: 12 open PRs across 4 repositories
**Average Age**: 3.2 days | **Oldest**: #456 (8 days)

### Ready to Merge (3)
| PR | Repository | Author | Age | Checks |
|----|-----------|--------|-----|--------|
| #789 feat: add pagination | ai-platform-engineering | @dev1 | 1d | Passing |

### Needs Attention (2)
| PR | Repository | Issue | Age |
|----|-----------|-------|-----|
| #456 fix: streaming bug | mcp-argocd | CI Failing | 8d |

### In Progress (5)
...

### Blocked (2)
...

Examples

  • "List all open pull requests in our repos"
  • "Show me PRs that need review"
  • "Which PRs have failing CI checks?"
  • "Are there any stale PRs older than a week?"
  • "Show the review status of open PRs in ai-platform-engineering"

Guidelines

  • Sort PRs by urgency, then by age (oldest first)
  • Flag PRs with no assigned reviewers prominently
  • Check for conventional commit compliance in PR titles when possible
  • Highlight draft PRs separately so they don't clutter the action-needed list
  • If a single repo is specified, show more detail per PR; if listing across repos, keep it concise
  • Include direct links to PRs where possible