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Submit Changes

This skill automates the full pipeline from local changes to an open pull request: branch → commit → push → PR. Each phase is idempotent — already-completed steps are skipped automatically.

When to Use This Skill

• Submitting local changes as a complete workflow in one step
• Automating the branch + commit + PR process without manual intervention
• Shipping finished work without manually running each git command

Safety Rules

These rules are non-negotiable:

• NEVER run destructive commands (git reset, git clean, git checkout -- ., git push --force, git rebase)
• NEVER bypass hooks with --no-verify
• NEVER disable signing with --no-gpg-sign
• NEVER auto-fix pre-commit failures — report the failure and stop
• On any failure: report the error and stop immediately

Automatic Change Analysis

Before executing any phases, analyze the working tree and staged changes:

git status --porcelain
git diff HEAD

From the diff, automatically determine:

1. Type — From the allowed types (see commit-code skill)
2. Scope — From the allowed scopes (see commit-code skill)
3. Gitmoji — Best-fit emoji for the type and intent (see commit-code skill)
4. Subject — Concise imperative phrase, lowercase, no period, under 70 chars

These values drive the branch name, commit message, and PR title throughout all phases.

Phase 1 — Branch

1. Check current branch: git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD

2. If on main, create and switch to a new branch following checkout-branch conventions:

   git checkout -b <type>/<scope>-<description>

3. Validate branch-name conformance for the current branch:

   pnpm exec validate-branch-name -t "<branch>"

4. If validation fails, run the rename-branch skill to derive and apply a compliant branch name, then re-run validation.

5. Push to remote and set upstream:

   git push --set-upstream origin <branch>

Branch name format: <type>/<scope>-<description> (kebab-case, 2–4 keyword description)

Phase 2 — Stage, Commit & Push

Skip if: Working tree is clean (git status --porcelain returns nothing).

1. Stage all changes:

   git add -A

2. Compose commit message: <type>(<scope>): <gitmoji> <subject> — single line, max 128 chars, no body/footer

3. Commit with signing enabled:

   export GPG_TTY="$(tty)"
   git commit -S -m "<type>(<scope>): <gitmoji> <subject>"

4. Verify the new commit signature:

   git verify-commit HEAD

✅ Best practice: Let Husky run signing checks automatically. The pre-commit hook runs check-commit-signing-configuration.sh, and the pre-push hook runs check-push-commit-signatures.sh.

⚠️ Warning: Do not invoke scripts/git/check-push-commit-signatures.sh directly during normal submits. It is designed for hook stdin input and can block or fail when run without ref-update data.

If pre-commit hooks fail

Stop immediately. Report the hook output so the user can see what failed. Do NOT apply fixes or proceed to push.

If commit succeeds

Push to remote:

git push --set-upstream origin <branch>

Phase 3 — Pull Request

Skip if: A PR already exists for the current branch:

gh pr list --head <branch> --state open

1. Title: Same format as the commit message — <type>(<scope>): <gitmoji> <subject>

2. Body: Auto-generate from the diff using the PR template structure:

   • 🌰 Summary: Overall purpose in 1-2 sentences
   • 📝 Details: Bulleted list of meaningful changes
   • 🧪 Testing: Relevant nx run <project>:<target> commands and manual steps
   • 🔗 Related: Issue links discovered from branch name, commits, or gh issue list --search

3. Assignee and labels — Validate Conventions rejects a pull request whose metadata disagrees with its title, so set all of this at creation time rather than waiting for the reconciliation step to backfill it:

   • Assignee: --assignee @me. A pull request with no assignee fails validation.
   • Type label: Exactly one type:* label, matching the title's type. Never more than one, never a mismatch.
   • Scope label(s): One scope:* label per scope named in the title — if the title carries more than one scope (type(scope-one,scope-two): …), add a --label scope:<name> for each of them, and no extra scope:* label beyond what the title names.
   • Source label: Exactly one source:* label. This skill is agent-driven, so use source:agent — never source:human, and never both.
   • Never apply do-not-merge — it blocks the pull request while present, and this workflow is opening one for immediate review, not staging a draft.

4. Create the PR:

   gh pr create \
     --title "<type>(<scope>): <gitmoji> <subject>" \
     --body "<generated body>" \
     --base main \
     --assignee @me \
     --label type:<type> \
     --label scope:<scope> \
     --label source:agent

   Repeat --label scope:<name> for each additional scope the title names.

5. Confirm the metadata actually landed — a label GitHub silently drops (typo, not-yet-created) fails CI just as surely as never adding it:

   gh pr view <branch> --json number,labels,assignees

   If any expected label or the assignee is missing, add it with gh pr edit <number> --add-label <label> / --add-assignee @me rather than leaving it to Validate Conventions to catch and fail on.

For complete PR conventions and description guidelines, see create-pull-request skill. For the full label vocabulary, the opened/reopened reconciliation step that creates missing labels, and how to fix each individual metadata failure, see the triage-deployment skill.

Output

After completing all phases, print a summary table:

Resources

• checkout-branch skill — Branch naming conventions
• rename-branch skill — Rename non-conforming branches before commit/push
• commit-code skill — Commit message format, types, scopes, gitmoji
• create-pull-request skill — PR conventions and description template, full Labels section
• triage-deployment skill — Label vocabulary, opened/reopened reconciliation, fixing metadata failures
• check-commit-signing-configuration.sh — Pre-commit hook signing prerequisite check
• check-push-commit-signatures.sh — Pre-push hook commit signature validation