Skill Detail

Fix failing pull requests by analyzing CI errors and pushing targeted repairs

Use GitHub Next's pr-fix workflow when a pull request is blocked on failing checks and the likely repair is machine-doable. The agent inspects CI failures, traces the root cause, applies a focused fix on the PR branch, and leaves the result in reviewable Git history.

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Use GitHub Next's pr-fix workflow when a pull request is blocked on failing checks and the likely repair is machine-doable. The agent inspects CI failures, traces the root cause, applies a focused fix on the PR branch, and leaves the result in reviewable Git history.

Runbooks & Diagnostics Multi-Framework Security Reviewed
INSTALL WITH ANY AGENT
npx skills add agentskillexchange/skills --skill fix-failing-pull-requests-by-analyzing-ci-errors-and-pushing-targeted-repairs Copy
Tools required
GitHub CLI, gh-aw extension
Install & setup
gh extension install github/gh-aw && gh aw add-wizard githubnext/agentics/pr-fix
Author
GitHub Next
Publisher
Organization

The PR Fix workflow in GitHub Next’s agentics project is a narrow, source-backed agent behavior for unblocking pull requests. The agent does four things: it reads failing CI checks on a PR, analyzes the logs and likely root cause, implements a targeted repair, and pushes the result back to the branch with a comment for reviewers. That is a crisp job-to-be-done. It is not merely β€œa GitHub tool,” β€œa CI tool,” or β€œan SDK.” The workflow is specifically designed for the moment when a PR has already hit a failure state and needs an agent to attempt a bounded fix.

A user should invoke this when the failure is concrete enough to automate, such as broken tests, lint errors, build regressions, or missing follow-up edits called out by CI. It is more appropriate than using the underlying product normally because the value is not in browsing GitHub or rerunning checks manually. The value is in having an agent gather the failure evidence, connect it to repository context, make a repair on the actual branch, and hand the change back for review. It also preserves a clear human checkpoint, which keeps the workflow from drifting into unattended auto-merge behavior.

The scope boundary is strong. This entry is not a generic card for GitHub, pull requests, or CI. It describes a specific operator playbook published upstream, complete with trigger phrase, expected behavior, and human review loop. Integration points include GitHub pull requests, CI providers surfaced through PR checks, repository build and test commands, and the gh-aw extension used to install the workflow. Even without the upstream name, the entry would still describe a real agent task: diagnose a failing PR and push the smallest credible repair.