PR Description

by microsoft

PR Description is a Writing skill for Claude Code, published by microsoft in apm.

3.5K stars324 forkson microsoft/apmAdded 2026/08/16+1% in starsRepository updated 2026/08/15

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Install PR Description

Copy PR Description into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/microsoft/apm/tree/main/packages/pr-description-skill ~/.claude/skills/pr-description-skill

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/microsoft/apm.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: packages/pr-description-skill/SKILL.md in microsoft/apm
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/pr-description-skill
Collection: One of 21 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Writing — 1012 skills

What PR Description does

PR Description drafts a self-sufficient GitHub-Flavored Markdown pull request body with TL;DR, problem, approach, implementation, validated mermaid diagrams, trade-offs, validation evidence, and how-to-test sections. Use it when asked to write a PR description, draft a PR body, open a PR, or fill in a PR template.

PR Description is cataloged under Writing on DirSkills. PR Description comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, codex-cli, context-engineering and github-copilot.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

PR Description Skill -- Anchored, Concise, Validated PR Bodies

When to use

Trigger this skill on any of the following intents:

"write a PR description"
"draft a PR body"
"open a PR" / "open this PR" / "let's open the PR"
"fill in the PR template"
"summarize this branch as a PR"
"create the PR write-up"

Reusable for any PR against microsoft/apm. The output is one markdown file that the orchestrator pastes into gh pr create --body-file or surfaces to the maintainer.

Output charset rule (read this first)

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about PR Description

What else does microsoft publish alongside PR Description?
PR Description is one of 21 skills that DirSkills catalogs from microsoft/apm, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include APM Issue Autopilot, APM Review Panel and APM Spec Guardian. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way PR Description does, and is maintained by microsoft in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the microsoft/apm page.
How does PR Description compare to other Writing skills?
PR Description ranks #177 by stars among the 1012 Writing skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Article Writing, Social Media Content Calendar and Knowledge Comic Creator. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of PR Description against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.