chore(agents): add coordinated PR audit and preparation skills

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What Changed

Adds two cooperating repository skills for reviewing and completing pull requests:

• pr-audit, adapted from Julius's original skill and follow-through guide, reviews value, correctness, compatibility, test quality, and unnecessary complexity. Findings identify the reviewed revision, severity, concrete trigger, evidence, and smallest useful fix. Review-only requests stay read-only.
• prepare-pr owns authorized branch publication, descriptions, visual evidence, attachment verification, and maintenance after new commits. It consumes audit findings without restarting the review; fixes return through a full-diff recheck before publication.
• Both carry the same base/head, findings, verification gaps, and existing authorization. Babysitting uses an actual host monitoring mechanism and reports when continued monitoring is unavailable. Neither a review verdict nor consulting both skills grants permission to merge or constitutes an independent review.

AGENTS.md routes review requests to pr-audit and preparation/update requests to prepare-pr. Detailed media requirements live in the media reference: comparable base/candidate evidence, real recordings for motion, contextual framing, saved-file smoke checks and recovery, vertical presentation, and attachment retrieval/readback. The existing crop helpers preserve PNG/GIF framing and animation metadata.

The offline evaluation fixture now freezes both sibling skills and detects changes to either. It retains their installed directory names so the global prepare-proof-media variant can use the same companion links.

Why

Agents can review code without finishing publication, or prepare convincing-looking PR material without challenging the code. These skills give each responsibility one owner and pass the reviewed revision and unresolved findings between them. Description-only and media-only requests retain their scope.

This changes agent instructions and evaluation tooling; it does not change the app UI. Maintainers still decide whether to adopt this workflow.

Verification

Verified code and instructions published at 259c03a1fa.

• python3 -B -m unittest discover -s .agents/skills/prepare-pr/evals -p 'test_*.py': 21 passed, including companion availability and tamper detection.
• python3 -B -m unittest discover -s .agents/skills/prepare-pr/scripts -p 'test_*.py': 17 passed.
• Targeted vp fmt --check passes for all seven changed Markdown/YAML files. Both skill packages pass the skill frontmatter validator. Repository and localized global companion links resolve; git diff --check passes.
• Two fresh GPT-6 Astra medium agents exercised the frozen bundle. The review-only run left Git, PR state and attachments unchanged. The audit/update run edited the existing PR, uploaded and fetched all five supplied artifacts, read back the result, and retained draft status while disclosing absent baseline and unusable media. Fixture checks and separate parent semantic review passed for both.
• The localized global bundle was created successfully with both sibling names and working cross-links.

These are offline workflow evaluations, not live GitHub rendering or live T3 UI tests. The synthetic helper examples below are retained from the earlier revision because the media helper implementation is unchanged; their links were retrieved again and their PNG/GIF files decoded successfully.

Independent review: SWE-2 Max via devin -p --model swe-2-max --permission-mode auto --sandbox exited 0 with no blocking or actionable findings in the incremental change. Its pending-global-install observation was addressed by installing and verifying both global packages. A fresh SWE-2 Max verification of the global installation and formatting-only delta also exited 0 with PASS.

Synthetic crop helper examples

Original pr-audit and follow-through guidance: Julius. Adaptation and integration: GPT-6 Astra in Codex/T3; behavioral evaluation: fresh GPT-6 Astra workers in Codex. The earlier preparation skill retains its existing contribution history.

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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds a large, coordinated PR-audit/preparation workflow with new agent instructions, publication/media tooling, and evaluation infrastructure. It does not affect product runtime, but its substantial new operational capability warrants human review before adoption.

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Independent automated first-pass review (Amp/Astra) run against the merge-base diff. 1 finding, verified real and addressed in d3a1cc8: the animation_pr evaluator required exactly two successful ui.capture operations, rejecting the smoke capture the skill itself mandates (SKILL.md capture-setup step). Evaluator now requires one successful capture of each revision, and a focused test covers the smoke path (18/18 eval tests pass). No force-push, process-kill, or secret-exposure instructions found; skill layout matches existing .agents/skills conventions.

[saphid]

Friendly review nudge @juliusmarminge @maria-rcks — this is mergeable and hasn't had a maintainer pass yet. Independent bot/agent reviews have run with findings triaged in-commit (see receipts in earlier comments). Full queue context and status: #10688.

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@coderabbitai The nitpick about printing captured Git stderr in the fixture's gh simulator is fixed in 6cfa181: the handler now prints exc.stderr and falls back to str(exc). Eval fixture: 18/18 passing.

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In @.agents/skills/prepare-pr/evals/fixture.py:
- Around line 481-483: Update the upload validation around captured_names to
track the comparable base and candidate captures separately from the required
smoke capture, using capture identity or ordering rather than revision alone.
Require exactly one uploaded artifact for each comparable capture while
excluding the smoke artifact from this check.
- Around line 218-219: Guard the positional argument access in the attachment
command handling before evaluating args[3], covering both upload and fetch.
Raise RuntimeError for a missing required argument so service_transaction can
emit the documented service error instead of an IndexError traceback; preserve
the existing Path resolution for valid arguments.
- Around line 264-269: Update the simulated gh pr create handler to resolve the
--base option to main when omitted, and reuse that resolved value for duplicate
detection and the persisted pr baseRefName. Preserve explicit --base values and
ensure the new_pr, existing_pr, and animation_pr checks observe the normalized
base branch.

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@saphid Thanks for the update. The handler now preserves captured Git stderr and retains a fallback error message. The reported evaluator result is 18/18 passing.

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