Github Pr Diff Context

GitHub PR Diff Context

Use this before reviewing or verifying PR feedback when you need a compact, reproducible view of what changed.

Command

# Build step (one-time or when tools change):
tsc --project $HOME/.agents/skills/github/tools/tsconfig.json

# Then run:
node $HOME/.agents/skills/github/tools/dist/pr-diff-context.js --repo OWNER/REPO --pr PR_NUMBER --cwd /path/to/checkout

Defaults:

• --repo from git origin
• --pr from gh pr view
• --cwd current directory
• private /tmp artifacts with 0600 files
• JSON summary on stdout

Useful options:

# Full JSON context on stdout
node $HOME/.agents/skills/github/tools/dist/pr-diff-context.js --repo OWNER/REPO --pr PR --stdout json

# Smaller or larger bounded diff
node $HOME/.agents/skills/github/tools/dist/pr-diff-context.js --repo OWNER/REPO --pr PR --max-diff-bytes 50000

Output

Stdout summary includes:

• PR URL, title, state, merge state
• base/head refs and SHAs
• changed file counts and file table
• commit headlines
• artifact paths for Markdown and JSON
• truncated: true if the diff was intentionally size-limited
• warnings if local git diff is unavailable

Artifacts:

• Markdown report for humans
• JSON report for tools/agents

Important limits

truncated: true is not a GitHub data-completeness error; it only means the local diff text was clipped by --max-diff-bytes. Increase the limit if you need more context.

The tool uses gh pr view for PR metadata and local git diff base..head for diff text. If the local checkout does not have both SHAs, the metadata is still useful but the diff section may be empty with a warning.