# Review Pr Comments

> Review and triage PR review comments on the current branch — groups threads by file, separates bots from humans, walks through unresolved comments interactively

- Skill: `datadog/review-pr-comments` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add datadog/review-pr-comments`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/datadog/review-pr-comments/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: datadog (https://skillmd.com/u/datadog)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/datadog/review-pr-comments

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# Review PR Comments

Fetch, summarize, and interactively triage review comments on the PR for the current git branch.

## Prerequisites

- `gh` CLI authenticated with access to the repository
- Current branch must have an open PR (not `main` or a release branch like `N.N.x`)

## Workflow

### Step 1: Identify the PR

```bash
BRANCH=$(git branch --show-current)
```

Guard: skip if branch is `main`, `master`, or matches release pattern `^\d+\.\d+\.x$`.

Find the PR:

```bash
gh pr list --head "$BRANCH" --json number,title,url,state --limit 5
```

If no PR found, inform the user and stop.

### Step 2: Fetch all review data

Run these three `gh api` calls in parallel:

```bash
# Review comments (inline code comments)
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{PR_NUMBER}/comments --paginate \
  --jq '.[] | {id, path, line, body, user: .user.login, created_at, in_reply_to_id, diff_hunk}'

# Top-level reviews (approval/request-changes status + body)
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{PR_NUMBER}/reviews --paginate \
  --jq '.[] | {id, user: .user.login, state, body}'

# Issue-level comments (general PR discussion, CI bot reports)
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/issues/{PR_NUMBER}/comments --paginate \
  --jq '.[] | {id, user: .user.login, body, created_at}'
```

Extract `{owner}` and `{repo}` from `gh repo view --json owner,name`.

### Step 3: Organize into threads

Group review comments into conversation threads using `in_reply_to_id`:
- A comment with `in_reply_to_id: null` starts a new thread
- Replies link to their parent thread

For each thread, track:
- **File & line** from the root comment
- **Author** of the root comment
- **All replies** in chronological order
- **Resolution status**: resolved if the PR author replied last

### Step 4: Classify comments

Separate into two groups:

**Bot comments** (user login ends with `[bot]` or is a known CI bot):
- Summarize briefly (e.g., "CI quality gates passed", "Regression detector: no regressions")
- Only highlight actionable items (failures, warnings)

**Human reviewer comments**:
- These get full treatment in Step 5

### Step 5: Present and triage each human comment

For each unresolved human reviewer comment thread:

1. **Show context**: file, line, diff hunk, the comment body
2. **Read the current file** at the referenced location to understand current state
3. **Summarize** the reviewer's concern in one sentence
4. **Propose** a concrete action: code fix, reply text, or explanation
5. **Ask the user** what to do using AskQuestion:

```
Options:
- "Fix" → Apply the proposed code change
- "Reply" → Post a reply comment on the PR via gh api
- "Reply with custom message" → Ask user for reply text, then post
- "Add TODO" → Add a TODO item to track for later
- "Skip" → Move to next comment
```

For already-resolved threads (PR author replied last), present them as a summary group:
- Show the comment + your reply, note it's resolved
- Ask if user wants to revisit any

### Step 6: Execute chosen actions

**Fix**: Edit the file, show the diff to the user. Do NOT commit automatically.

**Reply**: Post via gh API:

```bash
gh api repos/{owner}/{repo}/pulls/{PR_NUMBER}/comments \
  -f body="$REPLY_TEXT" -f in_reply_to=$COMMENT_ID
```

**TODO**: Use the TodoWrite tool to track it.

### Step 7: Summary

After processing all comments, output a summary table:

```
| # | File | Reviewer | Action Taken |
|---|------|----------|--------------|
| 1 | path/to/file.go:42 | reviewer1 | Fixed |
| 2 | path/to/other.py:10 | reviewer2 | Replied |
| 3 | path/to/build.bzl:5 | reviewer3 | Skipped (already resolved) |
```

## Edge Cases

- **No unresolved comments**: Report "All review comments are resolved" with approval status summary
- **PR not found**: Suggest the user push the branch or create a PR first
- **Outdated diff hunks**: Note that the comment may reference old code; read the current file to verify
- **Multiple PRs for branch**: Use the most recent open one