Astro PR Writer
description: Write and update Astro pull requests with reviewer-friendly titles and high-signal bodies. Trigger whenever the user asks to create a PR, open a PR, draft a PR, update PR title/body, or write PR notes/summary/description.
Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/withastro/astro --skill pull-request-descSkill File
name: astro-pr-writer description: Write and update Astro pull requests with reviewer-friendly titles and high-signal bodies. Trigger whenever the user asks to create a PR, open a PR, draft a PR, update PR title/body, or write PR notes/summary/description.
Astro PR Writer
Write Astro pull request descriptions that help reviewers quickly understand intent, behavior changes, and validation.
Use this skill whenever the user asks for any PR-writing task, including:
- create/open a pull request
- create/open a draft pull request
- update a PR title
- update a PR body/description
- write PR notes/summary
Core Principle
Describe the change, how it works, and why it matters.
Changesexplains what the fix/feature does.Testinglists what test code was added or changed.Docsexplains whether user-facing docs changes are needed.
Do not use PR sections as a task log.
PR Title Rules
Use a human, reviewer-friendly title.
- Describe the outcome in plain language.
- Keep it concise and specific.
- Prefer phrasing a person would naturally write in a review queue.
Do not use:
- conventional commit prefixes in PR titles (
fix:,feat:,docs:, etc.) - scoped commit-style titles (
fix(cloudflare): ...)
Body Rules
Use this structure:
## Changes
- <Behavior change and why it matters>
- <Implementation detail and impact>
## Testing
- <New or changed test and what it covers>
- <Why an existing assertion changed>
## Docs
- <No docs update needed, because ...>
Changes
Focus on behavior, implementation approach, and impact.
Include:
- what now works that did not work before
- how the fix/feature works (reviewer-useful level)
- user-facing reliability/compatibility/perf behavior changes
Do not include:
- "added test" or "updated fixture" (belongs in
Testing) - "added changeset"
- internal process notes with no behavior impact
Testing
List what test code was added or changed, and why. Reviewers read this section to understand test coverage changes — not to hear that you ran a test suite.
Include:
- new test files or test cases added, with a short description of what they cover
- existing tests that were updated, and why the assertion changed
Do not include:
- that tests pass (CI shows this; it's noise)
- which commands you ran
- how many tests passed
Docs
Explain docs impact clearly.
- If docs are not needed, say why in one sentence.
- If docs are needed, link the docs PR.
Brevity Guidance
Default to short. 1-2 bullets per section is normal — add more only when the change is genuinely complex. A reviewer scanning a PR queue should be able to read the whole body in under 30 seconds for a typical patch.
Too verbose:
- Moves
.optional().prefault({})outsidez.preprocess()for theserverconfig property in bothbase.tsandrelative.ts, matching theintegrationsfix from #16531. Zod 4.4.0 rejects missing properties wrapped inz.preprocess()before the preprocessor or inner defaults can execute — moving.optional().prefault({})outside the preprocess call resolves this. Fixes theserverproperty issue reported there by @rururux.- Adds
invalid_key,invalid_element, and discriminated unionoptionshandlers to both Astro and DB error maps for Zod 4.4.0 compatibility. Zod 4.4.0 surfaces record key refinement failures (e.g. env schema variable names) as structuredinvalid_keyissues with nested errors instead of a flat message. The handlers extract the actual refinement message for clear user-facing errors.- All changes are backward-compatible with Zod 4.3.x. New error map branches only activate on issue codes that 4.4.0 starts emitting.
Better:
- Moves
.optional().prefault({})outsidez.preprocess()for theserverconfig, matching theintegrationsfix from #16531. Fixes the issue reported there by @rururux.- Adds
invalid_key,invalid_element, and discriminated unionoptionshandlers to both error maps for Zod 4.4.0 compat.- Backward-compatible with Zod 4.3.x.
Changesets
Every PR that modifies a package requires a changeset. Only examples/* changes are exempt.
Load the changeset skill to create the changeset file and write the message. It covers file creation, format, bump types, and message conventions.
When writing the PR body:
- Always check that a changeset exists before posting the PR
- Do not mention "added changeset" in the
Changessection — it is process noise, not a behavior change
Self-Check Before Posting
- Title is reviewer-friendly (not commit-style)
Changesbullets describe behavior/implementation/impactTestinglists test code added/changed, not test run resultsDocsdecision is explicit- Changeset file exists in
.changeset/for any package-modifying PR
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