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Community PR Radar
First-time contributors never wait
Surface community pull requests that need attention. Focuses on first-time contributors, stale PRs, and those awaiting review. Uses GitHub's author_association to prioritize newcomers.
House RecipeWork2 min
INGREDIENTS
🐙GitHub
PROMPT
Triage open PRs in [owner/repo]. Show me: - New PRs from first-time contributors (highest priority) - PRs awaiting review for more than 48 hours - Stale PRs with no activity in 7+ days - PRs that are approved and ready to merge
How It Works
This skill analyzes open PRs and categorizes them by urgency and author type.
First-time contributors get priority — they're most likely to abandon if ignored.
What You Get
- Categorized PR lists by status and author type
- Identification of first-time contributors (NONE, FIRST_TIME_CONTRIBUTOR)
- Stale PR detection (7+ days no activity)
- Review status tracking (awaiting, in progress, approved)
- Shell scripts for quick triage runs
Setup Steps
- Ensure GitHub CLI (gh) is authenticated
- Run scripts/pr-triage.sh with your repo
- Optionally configure stale threshold (default 7 days)
Tips
- Response time matters most for NONE and FIRST_TIME authors
- Use pr-details.sh to get full context on specific PRs
- Check author_association before deciding review priority
- Celebrate merged community contributions publicly
- Daily check keeps the queue healthy
Tags:#github#pr-review#community#triage