kunchenguid 14-day stale PR close
Close contributor pull requests that have been waiting on the author past the stale threshold. This is not a merge, not a VISION verdict, and not a factory-ship close.
Parameters
Read these from the triage charter or the invocation. Do not hardcode them.
repo—OWNER/NAMEof the target repository. Required on everyghcall. Do not clone.owner— captain's personal GitHub login to exempt (not the org or repo-owner slug). Never close that login's PRs except a last-resort port whose original is also stale (or already closed).disclosure-line— the exact first line of the required close comment.stale-days— default 14.firstmate-mark— text that must start a firstmate comment. Usually the disclosure line.
Stamp outcome is closed-stale-<stale-days>d (so closed-stale-14d at the default).
Clock
Waiting on author means a prior triage outcome such as waiting-author, waiting-author-no-mistakes, or an equivalent "please push / fix CI / address review" that the author still owns.
The clock starts at the last author push, author comment, author review, or inline review-thread reply on the diff. Firstmate-mark comments and bot comments do not reset it.
Close only when that clock is at least stale-days old.
Do not close
- CLEAN and mergeable PRs (mergeable
MERGEABLE, merge stateCLEAN) - Captain holds (
hold,waiting-captain,captain-hold, or a comment that the captain still owes a decision) - Last-resort ports (
Last-resort port of #N) unless original#Nis also paststale-daysor already closed - Security items that still need a captain flag
- Owner-authored PRs that are not last-resort ports
- Automation authors (dependabot, github-actions, release-please, renovate,
[bot],app/, Greptile, and similar) - Drafts that are not waiting on author
- Anything whose last author push, comment, or review is newer than
stale-days
Required comment
The close comment must start with the disclosure-line parameter, explain the stale-days wait on the author, and end with an HTML stamp:
<disclosure-line> this pull request has been waiting on the author for <stale-days> days with no author push, comment, or review, so I am closing it. Reopen if you intend to continue.
<!-- triage: <ISO8601> outcome=closed-stale-<stale-days>d -->
Use gh pr close <n> --repo <OWNER/NAME> --comment "<body>". Do not omit --repo. Do not clone the target repo. Do not delete the branch unless the charter says to.
Do not
- Do not close to tidy the queue
- Do not treat firstmate or bot chatter as author activity
- Do not close a CLEAN mergeable PR as stale