close-human-intervention-and-failing-ci-prs

Close Human-Intervention and Failing-CI PRs

Use this skill when asked to clean up open pull requests that need human intervention or have failing CI. In this skill, "revert" means only issue rollback: the linked issue must have no assignees and its project Status must be Todo. This is not a git revert workflow.

Scope

Target open PRs in oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata when either condition is true:

• The PR has the human-intervention label.
• The PR's CI rollup is failed (FAILURE or ERROR), or an individual completed check has a failing conclusion such as FAILURE, CANCELLED, TIMED_OUT, or ACTION_REQUIRED.

Deduplicate PRs that match both conditions. Do not delete branches unless the user explicitly asks.

Workflow

1. Build an inventory before making changes.

   • Fetch open human-intervention PRs:

     gh pr list -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --state open --label human-intervention --limit 200 --json number,title,url,labels,statusCheckRollup
     

   • Fetch open PRs broadly enough to find failing CI:

     gh pr list -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --state open --limit 500 --json number,title,url,labels,statusCheckRollup
     

   • If the repository has more open PRs than the limit, rerun with a higher limit or use GraphQL pagination.
   • Treat PENDING, EXPECTED, missing, or empty checks as not yet failing. Do not close those PRs for CI failure alone.

2. For each target PR, re-read live state immediately before acting.

   gh pr view PR_NUMBER -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --json number,title,state,merged,labels,statusCheckRollup,url,body
   

   • Skip merged PRs and report them separately. A merged PR needs a real code revert decision, which is outside this skill.
   • If a PR is already closed, still try the issue rollback when the linked issue is unambiguous.

3. Resolve the linked issue without guessing.

   • Prefer GraphQL closingIssuesReferences:

     gh api graphql -f query='
       query {
         repository(owner: "oracle", name: "graalvm-reachability-metadata") {
           pullRequest(number: PR_NUMBER) {
             closingIssuesReferences(first: 10) {
               nodes {
                 number
                 title
                 state
               }
             }
           }
         }
       }'
     

   • If no linked issue is returned, inspect the PR body for an unambiguous Fixes #..., Closes #..., or Resolves #... reference.
   • If there are zero or multiple possible linked issues, close the PR only if it is clearly in the target set, but do not revert any issue. Report the missing or ambiguous issue mapping.

4. Revert the linked issue.

   • Read assignees and project items:

     gh issue view ISSUE_NUMBER -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --json assignees,projectItems,state,title,url
     

   • Remove every assignee:

     gh issue edit ISSUE_NUMBER -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --remove-assignee login1,login2
     

   • If the assignees remain after gh issue edit, clear them through the REST API:

     gh api repos/oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata/issues/ISSUE_NUMBER -X PATCH -f assignees[]=
     

   • Set every linked project item that has a Status field to Todo. Query item IDs and current status:

     gh api graphql -f query='
       query {
         repository(owner: "oracle", name: "graalvm-reachability-metadata") {
           issue(number: ISSUE_NUMBER) {
             projectItems(first: 20) {
               nodes {
                 id
                 project {
                   id
                   number
                   title
                   owner {
                     __typename
                     ... on Organization { login }
                     ... on User { login }
                   }
                 }
                 fieldValues(first: 20) {
                   nodes {
                     __typename
                     ... on ProjectV2ItemFieldSingleSelectValue {
                       field {
                         ... on ProjectV2SingleSelectField {
                           id
                           name
                         }
                       }
                       name
                       optionId
                     }
                   }
                 }
               }
             }
           }
         }
       }'
     

   • Resolve the Status field ID and Todo option ID from the owning project. Cache this per project:

     gh project field-list PROJECT_NUMBER --owner PROJECT_OWNER --format json
     

   • Update each project item:

     gh project item-edit \
       --id ITEM_ID \
       --project-id PROJECT_ID \
       --field-id STATUS_FIELD_ID \
       --single-select-option-id TODO_OPTION_ID
     

5. Close the PR.

   • Use a short factual comment matching the reason:

     gh pr close PR_NUMBER -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --comment "Closing this PR because CI is failing and returning the linked issue to Todo."
     

     gh pr close PR_NUMBER -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --comment "Closing this human-intervention PR and returning the linked issue to Todo."
     

   • If the PR was already closed, do not reopen it.

6. Verify after every mutation.

   • Re-read the issue and PR:

     gh issue view ISSUE_NUMBER -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --json assignees,projectItems,state,url
     gh pr view PR_NUMBER -R oracle/graalvm-reachability-metadata --json state,url
     

   • Confirm the PR is closed, assignees are empty, and each reverted project item status is Todo.

Decision Rules

• Closing PRs and reverting issues are related but separate actions. Never guess an issue number just to complete rollback.
• For this skill, Done is not a protected status: if the target PR has one unambiguous linked issue and rollback is requested, set linked project statuses to Todo.
• Do not close a PR only because checks are pending, missing, or inconclusive.
• If gh project ... fails with a missing scope or authorization error, run:

  gh auth refresh -s project
  

  Then retry the project status update.
• If a target list is unexpectedly large, print the inventory and pause for confirmation before mutating.

Output Style

Report a compact batch summary:

• PRs closed for human-intervention
• PRs closed for failing CI
• linked issues reverted to unassigned + Todo
• PRs skipped because they were merged, had pending CI, or had ambiguous issue mapping
• any verification failures that still need manual follow-up