Github Delivery Watchdog
Periodically check pull requests and merge only current heads with independent review, tests, and…
by openhands · MIT
The skill
Periodically check pull requests and merge only current heads with independent review, tests, and passing CI.
GitHub delivery watchdog
This is a deterministic scheduled host command. It creates no agent or conversation and needs no agent profile. Configure a repository-scoped fine-grained PAT with Contents and Issues read/write plus Pull requests, Actions, Commit statuses, and Metadata read. Contents write permits merge; Issues write retains the review label when the branch is updated. Never put the token value in the automation definition.
Package scripts/worker.py as worker.py and the shared
scripts/github_client.py as github_client.py.
The catalog bundle declares these exact files. Its config.json supplies
repos, branch_prefix, and the saved secret name. The shared GitHub client
resolves only that named secret. Automation owns scheduling and cancellation.
Set branch_prefix (default openhands/issue), base_branch (defaults to the repository's default branch),
and required_workflow_ids when particular Actions workflows must run. The
watchdog requires software-factory/tests and software-factory/review success
statuses on the exact head, all other statuses and Actions passing, a current
base, a non-draft PR, and GitHub reporting it mergeable. Missing, pending, failed,
or inaccessible evidence does not permit merge. A changed head requires fresh
review and tests. When an accepted branch is behind the base, the watchdog asks
GitHub to update it and retains the review trigger label; it considers the new
head only on a later run. The merge request includes the expected head SHA.
Actions are optional when required_workflow_ids is empty; the two acceptance
statuses remain mandatory. Configure workflow IDs when GitHub Actions must also
supply evidence. Branch protection remains GitHub's final merge gate.
Use this skill
Connect your agent to the Skill Store MCP server and ask for it by ref: openhands/github-delivery-watchdog-85349320957.
Details
- Publisher
- openhands
- Category
- Software Development › Source control & code review
- License
- MIT
- Updated
- 2026-10-19
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