| name | cicd |
| type | command |
| description | knowledgebase-cli's CI/CD lane, layered on `devex pr`. Delegates lint / open / read / reply / delta to devex; adds two 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 knowledgebase-cli, 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 devex in 0.12.0.
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CI/CD — knowledgebase-cli edition
devex pr (in agentculture/devex) 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 devex.
What's left in this skill is the steward-specific gating layer:
status — SonarCloud quality gate, OPEN issues, hotspots, deploy
preview URL, unresolved-inline-thread tally.await — composes devex 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. The await combo verb
landed natively in devex
(devex#41, now
closed); the gate extras that aren't yet native — SonarCloud hotspots,
deploy-preview URL, an explicit resolved/unresolved thread tally — are
tracked upstream in
devex#52 and
migrate out of this skill once they land.
The workflow is encapsulated in scripts/workflow.sh — follow that
(or call devex pr directly).
The devex inversion (upstream-as-consumer)
One consumer is special: devex itself, the repo that owns devex pr.
Vendoring this skill there verbatim would re-vendor bash that just wraps the
Python devex already ships, so devex vendors it adapted-thin
(devex#53):
workflow.sh is the only script and it forwards
lint | open | read | reply | delta | await straight to the native
devex pr <verb> — including the native devex pr await combo verb (devex
0.21.0). The steward status / await shell extensions and the vendored
helpers (pr-reply.sh, _resolve-nick.sh, portability-lint.sh) are all
redundant there, each superseded by a native verb. For that one consumer the
skill collapses to a pure delegate.
The only gate bits not yet native are SonarCloud hotspots, the
deploy-preview URL, and an explicit resolved/unresolved thread tally —
tracked upstream in
devex#52. Once those
land, steward retires pr-status.sh too and workflow.sh status/await
delegates to native devex pr everywhere.
For broadcasts: a skill-update brief to devex should expect this thin
workflow.sh-only shape, not steward's five-file layout. (Ref:
steward#53.)
Prerequisites
Hard requirements: devex (>=0.21), gh (GitHub CLI), jq, bash,
python3 (stdlib only), curl (used by pr-status.sh).
Install devex once:
uv tool install devex
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. devex pr delta reads the same file.
How to run
scripts/workflow.sh is the entry point. Subcommands:
| Command | What it does |
|---|
workflow.sh lint | devex pr lint --exit-on-violation — portability + alignment-trigger check. |
workflow.sh open [gh-flags] | devex 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] | devex 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> | devex pr reply <PR> — batch JSONL replies (stdin) + thread resolve. devex auto-signs from culture.yaml. |
workflow.sh delta | devex 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. devex 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 devex pr <verb> directly — workflow.sh is a
typing-saver around the same verbs. The steward status and await
extensions 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 — steward doctor's portability check runs it
directly against target repos. Both are scheduled for follow-up
migration to devex.
Long waits (background polling)
devex 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
devex 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 devex 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
(devex#41).
Conventions
devex pr emits a "Next step:" footer at the end of every command
that names the right next verb (the same chain devex learn cicd
documents) — follow that rather than memorizing an order. workflow.sh help mirrors the verb table when you need the steward-flavored
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 devex from the agent's own culture.yaml
(first agent's suffix), falling back to the git-repo basename. devex
auto-appends the signature on pr open and pr reply only when the
body isn't already signed.
Finishing a branch
When implementation on a branch is complete and tests pass, go straight
to workflow.sh open (push the branch + open the PR). Do not stop to
present a merge / PR / keep / discard menu and wait for a choice — in
AgentCulture the standing default is always "push and create a Pull
Request." This overrides the Superpowers finishing-a-development-branch
skill's interactive menu, which otherwise pauses the flow at the moment
work is ready to integrate. Merge-locally, keep-as-is, and discard happen
only when the user explicitly asks for one of them.
Triage rules
For every comment, decide FIX or PUSHBACK with reasoning.
Default to FIX for: portability complaints (always valid for
Steward — recurring bug class), 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
(devex#41).
Reply etiquette
Every comment must get a reply — no silent fixes. devex 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 devex pr read). Both surfaces are
trustworthy — devex pr read for display in the briefing, status for
the gate. Steward 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 Steward joins the mesh.
