| name | cicd |
| description | agentfront's CI/CD lane (vendored from steward), layered on `agex pr`. Delegates lint / open / read / reply / delta to agex; adds two steward-derived extensions — `status` (SonarCloud quality gate + hotspots + unresolved-thread tally) and `await` (read --wait + status with non-zero exit on Sonar ERROR or unresolved threads). Use when: creating PRs in agentfront, handling review feedback, polling CI status, or the user says "create PR", "review comments", "address feedback", "resolve threads". Renamed from `pr-review` in steward 0.7.0; rebased on agex in 0.12.0.
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CI/CD — agentfront edition (vendored from steward)
agex pr (in agentculture/agex-cli) is the upstream for the
five core PR-lifecycle verbs — lint, open, read, reply,
delta. Steward used to vendor parallel scripts for each; in 0.12.0
those vendored copies were dropped in favor of delegating to agex.
What's left in this skill is the steward-derived gating layer (vendored here from upstream):
status — SonarCloud quality gate, OPEN issues, hotspots, deploy
preview URL, unresolved-inline-thread tally.
await — composes agex pr read --wait with status and gates on
Sonar ERROR / unresolved threads. The single command to run after
pushing a fix when you want "wake me when this PR is triage-able."
Those two are the steward-unique surface today (carried into this vendored copy). They're filed as a
feature ask upstream
(agex-cli#41);
once they land they migrate out of this skill.
The workflow is encapsulated in scripts/workflow.sh — follow that
(or call agex pr directly).
Prerequisites
Hard requirements: agex (>=0.1), gh (GitHub CLI), jq, bash,
python3 (stdlib only), curl (used by pr-status.sh).
Install agex once:
uv tool install agex-cli
Soft requirement: PyYAML is needed only for suffix mode of the
sibling agent-config skill, where it parses Culture's server
manifest. Every cicd script works without it; suffix mode prints a
clear install hint when invoked without it.
Per-machine paths (sibling-project layout) live in
.claude/skills.local.yaml; see the committed .example for the
schema. agex pr delta reads the same file.
How to run
scripts/workflow.sh is the entry point. Subcommands:
| Command | What it does |
|---|
workflow.sh lint | agex pr lint --exit-on-violation — portability + alignment-trigger check. |
workflow.sh open [gh-flags] | agex pr open --delayed-read. Creates the PR, then polls 180s for an initial briefing. --title TITLE required; body via --body-file PATH or stdin. |
workflow.sh read [PR] [--wait N] | agex pr read. One-shot briefing (CI checks, SonarCloud gate + new issues, all comments, next-step footer). Pass --wait N to poll up to N seconds for required reviewers. |
workflow.sh reply <PR> | agex pr reply <PR> — batch JSONL replies (stdin) + thread resolve. agex auto-signs from culture.yaml. |
workflow.sh delta | agex pr delta — sibling alignment dump. |
workflow.sh status <PR> | Steward extension. pr-status.sh — Sonar gate, OPEN issues, hotspots, unresolved-thread breakdown, deploy preview URL. Authoritative gate for await. |
workflow.sh await <PR> | Steward extension. agex pr read --wait then status. Exits non-zero on Sonar ERROR or unresolved threads. Tunables: STEWARD_PR_AWAIT_WAIT (default 1800s passed to --wait), STEWARD_PR_AWAIT_SECONDS (legacy fixed pre-sleep, deprecated). |
workflow.sh help | Print the list. |
You can also call agex pr <verb> directly — workflow.sh is a
typing-saver around the same verbs. The status and await
extensions (carried from steward) only have shell entry points.
The vendored single-comment helper pr-reply.sh (plus its
_resolve-nick.sh dependency) is still shipped — pinned by
tests/test_pr_reply_signature.py and tests/test_resolve_nick.py,
and useful when a one-off reply doesn't merit batch JSONL. It is not
called by workflow.sh anymore. The vendored portability-lint.sh
is also still shipped — upstream steward doctor's portability check
runs it directly; in agentfront it's available as a standalone helper.
Both are scheduled for follow-up migration to agex.
Long waits (background polling)
agex pr read --wait N polls in-session for up to N seconds. The
Anthropic prompt cache has a 5-minute TTL; sleeping past it burns
context every cache miss. Two ways to drive the wait:
- Synchronous —
workflow.sh await <PR> after gh pr create /
workflow.sh open. Fine when readiness is expected within ~5
minutes.
- Asynchronous — for longer waits, run
agex pr read --wait NNN
inside a background subagent (Agent tool, run_in_background: true)
so the main session only pays the cache cost when readiness fires.
The subagent's only job is to invoke agex pr read --wait and echo
its headline back. The parent triages with workflow.sh await
when the notification arrives. The user can interrupt with
TaskStop.
This pattern was originally borrowed from sibling repo
agentculture/cfafi's poll
skill. The async guidance is also filed upstream
(agex-cli#41).
Conventions
agex pr emits a "Next step:" footer at the end of every command
that names the right next verb (the same chain agex learn cicd
documents) — follow that rather than memorizing an order. workflow.sh help mirrors the verb table when you need the steward-derived
extensions (status, await) on top.
Branch naming: fix/<desc>, feat/<desc>, docs/<desc>,
skill/<name>. PR / comment signature: - <nick> (Claude), where
<nick> is resolved by agex from the agent's own culture.yaml
(first agent's suffix), falling back to the git-repo basename. agex
auto-appends the signature on pr open and pr reply only when the
body isn't already signed.
Triage rules
For every comment, decide FIX or PUSHBACK with reasoning.
Default to FIX for: portability complaints (always valid —
recurring bug class across AgentCulture repos), test or doc requests,
style nits aligned with workspace conventions.
Default to PUSHBACK for: architecture opinions that conflict with
workspace CLAUDE.md or the all-backends rule; greenfield
false-positives (e.g. "add tests" before there's any source — defer
to a later PR, don't refuse).
Alignment-delta rule
If the PR touches CLAUDE.md, culture.yaml, or anything under
.claude/skills/, run workflow.sh delta before declaring FIX or
PUSHBACK on each comment. Note any sibling that needs a follow-up PR
and mention it in your reply.
Greenfield-aware steps
The lint and the workflow script are always-on. Stack-specific steps
are conditional and currently no-op (greenfield repo):
[ -d tests ] && [ -f pyproject.toml ] && uv run pytest tests/ -x -q
[ -f pyproject.toml ] && bump_version_per_project_convention
[ -f .markdownlint-cli2.yaml ] && markdownlint-cli2 "$(git diff --name-only --cached '*.md')"
Revisit each line as the corresponding stack element actually lands.
A pr lint --extra=tests,version,markdown ask is filed upstream
(agex-cli#41).
Reply etiquette
Every comment must get a reply — no silent fixes. agex pr reply
includes thread-resolve by default. Reference the review-comment IDs
in the fix-up commit message.
The status extension queries SonarCloud directly (it predates the
upstream Sonar integration in agex pr read). Both surfaces are
trustworthy — agex pr read for display in the briefing, status for
the gate. agentfront isn't yet a registered mesh agent, so the
post-merge IRC ping that Culture's pr-review includes is still
skipped — that returns when agentfront joins the mesh.