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Automate High-Quality Pull Request Descriptions with a Custom AI Skill

Tired of lazy AI-generated PR descriptions? Learn Intercom's method to enforce high-quality, intent-driven descriptions by building a custom skill that intercepts PR creation and applies your standards automatically.

Automate High-Quality Pull Request Descriptions with a Custom AI Skill

Tools Used

Claude

Anthropic AI assistant

02Step-by-Step Guide
1

Build a Custom 'Create PR' Skill

Create a custom skill for your AI code assistant (e.g., in Claude Code) that is specifically designed to write high-quality, intent-driven pull request descriptions by using the entire chat session's context.

2

Create a Hook to Intercept PR Creation

Set up a hook in your development environment that intercepts any direct calls to the standard command for creating a pull request, such as gh pr create.

3

Enforce the Quality Standard

Configure the hook to block the direct command and instead force the AI agent to use your custom Create PR skill. This makes the quality-enforced path the easiest and default path for all AI-assisted pull requests.

4

Execute the Workflow

When an engineer asks the AI to perform a task and create a pull request, the system will automatically invoke the custom skill, ensuring a high-quality description is generated every time.

Prompt:
add a lobster emoji rails redirect to chatprd.ai

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