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Priority: ⬇️ Low Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Change: Feature Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to Fix the transfer instructions before merging so requested changes are not silently omitted, provenance is preserved, and the documented validation workflow actually runs the intended tests. 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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- Line 25: Update the commit-revision resolution instructions so branch names
resolve specifically against detsys, not matching local or origin refs; verify
the resolved commit belongs to the intended Determinate Nix source before
continuing, while retaining the detsys fetch fallback.
- Line 25: Update the command examples in the upstream skill so dynamic
revisions, PR numbers, branch names, titles, and body-file paths are stored in
shell variables and passed as quoted arguments, rather than interpolated into
shell source. Validate revisions, PR numbers, and branch names separately, and
apply this consistently to the earlier commands and the push and PR-creation
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- Line 63: Update the upstream cherry-pick guidance in the SKILL to match the
per-commit provenance convention documented in CONTRIBUTING.md, while preserving
the original author, message, and trailers.
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* Don't rely on a shell variable for the worktree path, since variables don't persist between commands. An empty `$dir` would have made `git -C ""` silently operate on the original worktree. * Refer to "the Step 5 report" consistently. * Add a progress checklist with the approval gate as its own item. * Use the third person in the description. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 71: Update the worktree command guidance throughout SKILL.md, including
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worktree path wherever it is passed to git -C or cd. Preserve the requirement to
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`git worktree add -b <branch> <path> origin/master` makes the new branch track `origin/master`, so depending on `push.default`, the later `git push -u origin <branch>` can try to push to `master`. Create the branch with `--no-track` and push with an explicit refspec. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Like the downstream skill, rely on the agent's judgement rather than prescribing an algorithm for determining the commits of a PR, for classifying conflicts and for writing the PR description. Also build and test after each non-trivial cherry-pick. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 12: Update the argument parsing instructions so an unresolved source
argument is rejected before creating the worktree rather than implicitly treated
as a branch name. Allow branch names only when supplied through an explicit
branch option, preserving the existing handling of valid commit revisions and
pull request numbers.
- Around line 46-47: Update the downstream workflow’s git command construction
to keep branch, commit, and PR-title metadata out of shell source and pass it
only as quoted arguments; validate the branch before using it in the worktree
commands. Add an explicit user-approval gate before Step 5 performs git push or
gh pr create.
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- Line 86: Update the PR-description guidance in this skill so the user authors
the final description and required disclosures of non-trivial automation remain
permitted; do not require agent attribution where it is not required.
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Drop detail that an agent already knows, such as how to create a worktree, how to pick a branch name, and the exact git/gh invocations. Keep only the repo-specific constraints. Assisted-by: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Line 38: Update the worktree naming instructions in the branch-creation flow
to derive a filesystem-safe sibling directory name from the requested branch, so
slash-containing names such as feature/foo do not create nested paths. Keep the
Git branch name unchanged and preserve the existing collision behavior of
choosing a different name rather than reusing or deleting an existing branch or
directory.
- Line 32: Update Step 1 in the downstream skill to retrieve explicit commit
SHAs when the argument is a PR, using `gh pr view` with the commits JSON field
and OID query. Use those SHAs to identify the PR’s own commits, excluding merge
commits and commits Determinate Nix already has.
Review comments at @.claude/skills/upstream/SKILL.md:
- Line 36: Update the PR commit-list instructions to explicitly request the
commits field from gh pr view and select the PR’s non-merge commits, so the
skill has commit SHAs to cherry-pick. Keep the existing guidance to exclude
commits that do not make sense upstream or are already present upstream.
- Line 56: Update the validation instructions in the upstream skill so they
distinguish the default package build from the flake checks: retain `nix build
-L .` for the package and add `nix flake check -L` to build the checks,
including test derivations. State that both commands may take a long time and
should run in the background.
- Line 40: Update the worktree naming instruction in the upstream skill to
replace each slash in the supplied branch name with a hyphen when forming the
sibling directory name; keep the Git branch name unchanged and preserve the
existing collision-handling requirements.
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Motivation
This adds two Claude Code skills for moving changes between Determinate Nix and upstream Nix:
/upstream <rev | nix-src PR>...cherry-picks a Determinate Nix change onto a new branch based onNixOS/nixmaster, builds and tests it, and drafts a PR description. It only pushes the branch and opens the upstream PR after the draft has been reviewed and approved./downstream <rev | NixOS/nix PR>...does the opposite: it cherry-picks an upstream change onto a new branch based onmain, builds and tests it, and opens a PR againstDeterminateSystems/nix-src.Both skills work in a separate worktree, resolve simple conflicts themselves, and stop to ask about anything bigger. If a downstreamed change turns out to depend on upstream commits that Determinate Nix doesn't have yet, the
downstreamskill proposes cherry-picking those as well.Context
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