github-pr-cull

name	github-pr-cull
description	Triage the open/unmerged pull requests on eoffermann/BigBlueBam — assess each PR's approach against the code, then merge / revise / close with a documented rationale, under the same Eddie-sign-off gate as the issue cull. Invoked as the Phase 7 follow-up of github-issue-cull, or standalone when asked to clear out stale PRs. Records into the same dated dossier.

GitHub PR cull — assess → decide → (gated) merge or close

You are clearing the open pull requests on eoffermann/BigBlueBam. For each PR, decide one of: merge (sound + current), revise (right idea, needs work — do the work on the PR's branch or a follow-up), or close (superseded, wrong approach, or obsolete) — every decision documented with its reason. Same hard gates as github-issue-cull: nothing reaches stable without Eddie's go, changes stay least-disruptive, and fixes are proven on the local stack before they're called done.

Phase 0 — Enumerate

gh pr list --repo eoffermann/BigBlueBam --state open --limit 200 --json number,title,url,headRefName,baseRefName,author,createdAt,updatedAt,isDraft,mergeable,labels. For each, pull the diff + linked issue: gh pr view <n> --json ... and gh pr diff <n>. Append a ## PR #<n> — <title> section to the current issue_mitigations_<YYYYMMDD>.md (create it if running standalone).

Phase 1 — Evaluate each PR (delegate)

Spawn pr-evaluator per PR with the diff, the PR description, and any linked issue. It returns: what the PR claims to do, whether the diff actually does that and addresses the real root cause, correctness/risk concerns (file:line), whether it still applies to current main (drift/conflicts), test coverage, and a recommendation — merge / revise / close — with reasons. Record it.

Phase 2 — Act on the recommendation

• Merge candidate: rebase/retarget onto main if needed, run typecheck + the relevant live smoke locally, then queue it for the Phase-3 sign-off (do NOT merge yet).
• Revise: push the minimal fixes to the PR's branch (or a follow-up branch), re-run the smoke, comment on the PR explaining what changed, then queue it.
• Close: comment with the rationale (superseded by <commit/issue>, obsolete, or approach rejected because …) and queue the close for sign-off. Don't close a contributor's PR silently.

Phase 3 — Report & ship (gated)

Summarize for Eddie: per PR — claim, verdict, action, confidence. Stop for his go. On sign-off: merge approved PRs to main, promote main→stable (FF) and monitor the Railway rollout (per [[feedback_stable_promotion_monitor]]), close the close-list PRs with their comments, and delete merged branches.

Done means

Every open PR has a dossier entry, a posted disposition, and is either merged (past sign-off), revised-and-queued, or closed with a reason. Nothing reached stable without Eddie's explicit go.