Pre Push

Pre-push

Scope

This skill owns integration and publication readiness. AGENTS.md and the repo workflow overlay own workspace isolation, the intended base, gate commands, warning severity and whether a spec link or trivial exception is required. Availability of this skill grants no push, PR or merge authority.

Prerequisites

Inspect branch, worktree and working-tree state before edits. Preserve unrelated changes and keep primary-checkout parking rules intact. Resolve the actual remote and base branch, which may differ from main. Load harness-operations if a tool mapping is needed.

Procedure

1. Inspect the current diff and intended base. Refresh that base through the configured remote and record its SHA. If fetching is blocked, report that the base/merge gate could not be verified; do not claim offline integration success.
2. Follow the repo's integration route. If its gate builds a committed merge preview itself, satisfy its clean-tree prerequisite and run that gate without replacing it with a manual branch check. Otherwise merge the intended base in the task worktree when required; avoid rewriting published history or forcing a push.
3. Resolve conflicts locally. Inventory unresolved paths, reconcile all changed intents, stage resolutions and run relevant gates before completing the merge. Preserve changelog/registry entries from both sides. Regenerate lockfiles and generated assets with their owning tools; do not hand-edit them. For shared documents reconcile section intent. Abort an unsuccessful merge only when it preserves the pre-merge work; never discard unrelated changes.
4. Run exactly the repository's mandatory gates and diff-conditional checks on the required tree. Respect its distinction between advisory and blocking warnings. Missing tooling, origin access or environment setup is blocked validation, not a pass. Do not suppress failures, weaken assertions or bypass hooks. Once the required checks pass, repeat them only for changed inputs, a new failure or an unresolved concern. Missing optional tooling does not block independent work or reviewable PR preparation; describe its validation limit.
5. Apply the declared contribution process. Where SDD is required, verify a spec exists, its blocking decisions are resolved, and the proposed PR links the right delivery slice. Use issue-spec for missing specs. Where a trivial exception is allowed, justify it using the repo's definition. Reconcile issue references in commits deliberately; incidental mentions do not imply closure. A repository without this gate acquires none from this skill.
6. When publication is authorized, publish the validated branch with the available Git transport or connected GitHub API. On transport failure use an available authenticated equivalent; when publishing trees through an API, preserve modes, deletions and parent lineage and verify exact tree identity. Do not force-update a protected/long-lived branch. Limited retries are appropriate for transient errors; authorization errors require capability diagnosis, not repeated retries.
7. Hand PR creation/update and its check sweep to pr-lifecycle.

Request any unresolved human decision through the structured question capability in harness-operations, with the affected scope and options. Wait before dependent publication; continue independent authorized checks. A final-response blocker list alone is insufficient when the tool is available. If unavailable, state the limitation and use the established handoff.

Completion

Record branch/base/head SHAs, actual gate results, missing prerequisites and publication result. A docs-only change may need fewer checks, but still needs base freshness and any declared contribution gate. State when a ready branch is not published or its merge-preview gate is blocked.