Document when to stack a PR and how to drive gh stack - #53
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughAGENTS.md expands the ChangesStacked-branch documentation
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The change only updates guidance, but the current text still describes branch-stacking operations and submission behavior inaccurately; following it can create the wrong branch structure, require unexpected interactive handling, or produce surprising PR titles. These bounded documentation correctness issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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I would prefer to have this somewhere global and standardized, but since we had the other PR creation guidelines here I figured it was appropriate to include.
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I kind of did this here: https://github.com/stellarwp/nexcess-maintenance-ai-guidelines/pull/30
That PR and its draft followup (https://github.com/stellarwp/nexcess-maintenance-ai-guidelines/pull/31) are a little more detailed than this in some ways.
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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Around line 658-660: Update the AGENTS.md workflow example to use gh stack
view --json instead of bare gh stack view, so agent workflows receive
machine-readable output without interactive terminal behavior.
- Around line 667-673: Update the existing-branch workflow section to stop
instructing users to run gh stack add with an already-existing branch; document
either creating the branch through gh stack add or the supported github/gh-stack
workflow for adopting an existing branch.
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Moved to a global ignore because adding a local ignore to AGENTS.md would eat up more of the context window to only benefit CI.
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- Around line 646-648: Update the documentation for gh stack submit --auto to
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commits produce a humanized branch name without a prefix; explain that custom
titles must be applied afterward with gh pr edit --title and are preserved by
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What: adds a
Stacking with gh stacksubsection toAGENTS.md— when a stack is warranted, when a shared base branch is not one, the<prefix> [X/Y]:title convention, and the invocations that drive it (init --base,topthenadd,rebase --upstack --preserve-dates,submit --auto) — and addsupstacktocspell.json.Usage:
gh stack init --base main 34-first 35-second 36-third gh stack view --json gh stack top gh stack add 37-fourth git checkout 35-second gh stack rebase --upstack --preserve-dates gh stack submit --auto gh pr edit 41 --title "Conflict handling [2/4]: resolve the standalone conflict"Why this way:
The size cap is the floor, not the test. A change that fits in ten files still gets split when a reviewer would have to hold two unrelated arguments in their head to sign it off, so the section states the unit as one decision a reviewer can accept or reject on its own, with its own tests and its own
Why this wayblock.A PR based on another branch is not automatically a stack. Cutting from an open branch to avoid a guaranteed conflict on a shared file is a base branch and nothing more; a Stack on GitHub claims the PRs are one piece of work meant to be read in order, and making that claim about two changes that merely share a file sends the reviewer looking for a through-line that was never there. This PR is that case — it cuts from
36-agents-mdbecause both editAGENTS.md, so neither branch is registered as a stack and neither title takes the prefix.Titles carry the shared prefix and the position,
<prefix> [X/Y]:. It is the PR list, not the PR, that the convention is for: a reviewer scanning titles learns that these belong together, which one to open first, and how much is still coming, without opening any of them. The cost taken is thatYis a count, so appending a branch renumbers every PR already open — accepted, because a stack whose numbering says it is shorter than it is misleads at exactly the moment the reviewer is deciding where to start.--baseis documented as the seam between stacks, not just as "main". It is whatever the bottom branch cut from — which is the tip branch of the lower stack when a second stack is built over one still open, and the only way to keep the lower stack's PRs out of the new one.--preserve-datesis stated as belonging on every rebase, with its--committer-date-is-author-datealias named. Without it each rebase restamps the committer date of every commit it rewrites, and a stack is rebased repeatedly, so the whole history walks forward to whenever the last submit happened.The invocations are given verbatim because the defaults are the wrong ones for an agent. A bare
gh stack viewis an interactive TUI and--jsonis the machine-readable form;gh stack modifyis a TUI with no flag form at all, so appending goes throughadd, which adopts a branch that already exists but exits5unless it runs from the top of the stack; a rebase with no scope flag re-creates every commit in the stack, so the submit after it force-pushes branches nothing changed on; andsubmit --autotitles a single-commit branch with the commit subject and a multi-commit branch with the humanized branch name, with no flag for either, which is why the prefix goes on withgh pr edit --titleafterwards.Summary by CodeRabbit