pitboss
Sweep a project’s pull requests, merge queue, local checkouts and worker slots, and say what each calls for.
pitboss reads the project’s state from GitHub (through gh api, with the session’s own authentication) and from the checkouts on the machine, and prints one line per thing that needs a look. Every line that calls for an action starts with a marker in capitals and says the action. Everything about one project (its repositories, review format, models, labels, paths) lives in that project’s configuration file; pitboss itself names no project.
Commands
pitboss sweep CONFIG |
PRs, runner pressure, queue runs, stragglers, worktrees, reminders, slots. Exits 1 on a red or conflicted PR. |
pitboss pressure CONFIG |
One line; exits 1 under runner pressure. |
pitboss cancel-stale-runs CONFIG |
Cancel superseded merge-queue runs (--no-dry-run). |
pitboss clean-worktrees CONFIG |
Remove finished worktrees (--no-dry-run). |
pitboss review-form CONFIG REPOSITORY |
The form a review comment there must take. |
pitboss slots ACTION CONFIG ... |
The worker-slot ledger, and what to start next. |
CONFIG is a path, or a name looked up as .claude/pitboss/<name>.toml in the current directory or a parent. doc/example.toml lists every key.
The sweep skill
The repository is also a Claude Code plugin marketplace with one plugin, pitboss, whose sweep skill says when to run pitboss and what to do about every line. A project enables it in its .claude/settings.json:
{
"extraKnownMarketplaces": {
"pitboss": {"source": {"source": "github", "repo": "dev-skill-up/pitboss"}}
},
"enabledPlugins": {"pitboss@pitboss": true}
}
skill-zips/sweep.zip is the same skill for upload to claude.ai.
Development
nox runs every check: tests (100% branch coverage), lint (black and stolid), mypy, docs, skills (the skill’s files, the markers against the references, and skill-zips/), dry_release. The design, and how each value specific to one project became configuration, is in doc/design.rst.
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