docs: autonomous PR monitoring prompt and retrospective

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Combining multiple PRs into one.

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Combined PRs

• docs(retrospective): autonomous PR monitoring session analysis (docs(retrospective): autonomous PR monitoring session analysis #300) @rjmurillo-bot
• docs: add autonomous PR monitoring prompt (docs: add autonomous PR monitoring prompt #299) @rjmurillo-bot

Summary

This PR combines:

1. PR docs: add autonomous PR monitoring prompt #299: Autonomous PR monitoring prompt documentation

   • Initial prompt for continuous PR monitoring
   • Monitoring strategies and problem-solving guidelines

2. PR docs(retrospective): autonomous PR monitoring session analysis #300: Session 80 retrospective analysis

   • 6 atomic skills extracted (93% avg atomicity)
   • Memory updates for skillbook
   • Recommendations for process improvements

Test Plan

• All markdown files pass linting
• Skills pass SMART validation

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

Adds nine new Markdown documentation files across agents, retrospectives, and memory directories covering QA waivers, session narratives, retrospectives, and skills (worktree isolation, rate-limit precheck, Copilot CLI auth). No code, tests, workflows, or public API changes.

Changes

Cohort / File(s)	Summary
QA & Compliance .agents/qa/2025-12-24-session-04-qa-waiver.md	New QA waiver marking Session 04 changes as documentation-only and exempting QA validation.
Session Narratives .agents/sessions/2025-12-24-session-04-pr-queue-clearance.md, .agents/sessions/2025-12-24-session-04-pr-255-review-comments.md, .agents/sessions/2025-12-24-session-81-pr-301-review-response.md	Added three session/PR recap documents capturing metadata, thread statuses, actions, and outcomes.
Retrospectives .agents/retrospective/2025-12-24-session-04-10-iteration-retrospective.md, .serena/memories/retrospective-2025-12-24-parallel-agent-learnings.md	Two retrospective documents detailing iterations, misses, process weaknesses, and parallel-agent learnings.
Memory & Skills .serena/memories/skill-ci-001-copilot-cli-authentication.md, .serena/memories/skill-parallel-001-worktree-isolation.md, .serena/memories/skill-parallel-002-rate-limit-precheck.md	Three skill/memory docs covering Copilot CLI auth failure modes, worktree isolation patterns, and GitHub rate-limit precheck with examples.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Pre-merge checks and finishing touches

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	Title follows conventional commit format with 'docs:' prefix and clearly describes the main changes: autonomous PR monitoring prompt and retrospective documentation.
Description check	✅ Passed	Description explains that multiple PRs are being combined, lists the specific PRs (#299 and #300), summarizes content, includes test results, and provides merge instructions. Content is directly related to the changeset.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

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📜 Recent review details

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Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between e9eada1 and d503ecc.

⛔ Files ignored due to path filters (3)

• .agents/sessions/2025-12-24-session-04-pr-255-review-comments.md is excluded by !.agents/sessions/**
• .agents/sessions/2025-12-24-session-04-pr-queue-clearance.md is excluded by !.agents/sessions/**
• .agents/sessions/2025-12-24-session-81-pr-301-review-response.md is excluded by !.agents/sessions/**

📒 Files selected for processing (2)

• .agents/qa/2025-12-24-session-04-qa-waiver.md
• .agents/retrospective/2025-12-24-session-04-10-iteration-retrospective.md

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Session Protocol Compliance Report

Caution

❌ Overall Verdict: CRITICAL_FAIL

2 MUST requirement(s) not met. These must be addressed before merge.

What is Session Protocol?

Session logs document agent work sessions and must comply with RFC 2119 requirements:

• MUST: Required for compliance (blocking failures)
• SHOULD: Recommended practices (warnings)
• MAY: Optional enhancements

See .agents/SESSION-PROTOCOL.md for full specification.

Compliance Summary

Session File	Verdict	MUST Failures
2025-12-23-session-80-autonomous-pr-monitoring-retrospective.md	❔ NON_COMPLIANT	2

Detailed Results

2025-12-23-session-80-autonomous-pr-monitoring-retrospective

Based on my analysis of the session log, here is the compliance checklist:

MUST: Serena Initialization: PASS
MUST: HANDOFF.md Read: PASS
MUST: Session Log Created Early: PASS
MUST: Protocol Compliance Section: PASS
MUST: HANDOFF.md Updated: SKIP
MUST: Markdown Lint: FAIL
MUST: Changes Committed: FAIL
SHOULD: Memory Search: PASS
SHOULD: Git State Documented: SKIP
SHOULD: Clear Work Log: PASS

VERDICT: NON_COMPLIANT
FAILED_MUST_COUNT: 2
MESSAGE: Session end checklist shows "Markdownlint execution (pending)" and "Git commit (pending)" are unchecked. Both are MUST requirements.

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Code Review

This pull request adds documentation for an autonomous PR monitoring agent, including the agent's prompt and operational details. The new documentation is well-structured and provides clear instructions. I have identified a few areas for improvement: a minor markdown formatting issue that violates the repository style guide, an incorrect gh api command example, and a user-specific file path in an example that should be made generic. My review includes specific suggestions to address these points.

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AI Quality Gate Review

Tip

✅ Final Verdict: PASS

Walkthrough

This PR was reviewed by six AI agents in parallel, analyzing different aspects of the changes:

• Security Agent: Scans for vulnerabilities, secrets exposure, and security anti-patterns
• QA Agent: Evaluates test coverage, error handling, and code quality
• Analyst Agent: Assesses code quality, impact analysis, and maintainability
• Architect Agent: Reviews design patterns, system boundaries, and architectural concerns
• DevOps Agent: Evaluates CI/CD, build pipelines, and infrastructure changes
• Roadmap Agent: Assesses strategic alignment, feature scope, and user value

Review Summary

Agent	Verdict	Status
Security	PASS	✅
QA	PASS	✅
Analyst	PASS	✅
Architect	PASS	✅
DevOps	PASS	✅
Roadmap	PASS	✅

Architect Review Details

Based on my review of the PR changes, I can now provide the architectural assessment.

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Design Quality Assessment

Aspect	Rating (1-5)	Notes
Pattern Adherence	5	Documentation-only, follows established retrospective patterns
Boundary Respect	5	Content placed in correct directories (docs/, .agents/retrospective/, .agents/skills/)
Coupling	5	No code dependencies introduced
Cohesion	5	Clear single purpose: document autonomous PR monitoring learnings
Extensibility	5	Skills catalog format enables future additions

Overall Design Score: 5/5

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Architectural Concerns

Severity	Concern	Location	Recommendation
None	-	-	-

No architectural concerns identified. This PR adds documentation and retrospective artifacts only.

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Breaking Change Assessment

• Breaking Changes: No
• Impact Scope: None
• Migration Required: No
• Migration Path: N/A

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Technical Debt Analysis

• Debt Added: Low (minimal documentation maintenance overhead)
• Debt Reduced: Low (codifies patterns for future use)
• Net Impact: Neutral

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ADR Assessment

• ADR Required: No
• Decisions Identified: None (documents existing patterns, no new architectural decisions)
• Existing ADR: ADR-014 (HANDOFF.md policy) referenced correctly in autonomous-pr-monitor.md
• Recommendation: N/A

The skills extracted (Skill-PowerShell-006 through 008, Skill-CI-Infrastructure-004, Skill-Testing-Platform-001, Skill-Testing-Path-001) document operational patterns, not architectural decisions. These belong in the skillbook, not ADRs.

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Recommendations

1. None required: Documentation structure follows established patterns in .agents/retrospective/ and .agents/skills/.

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Verdict

VERDICT: PASS
MESSAGE: Documentation-only PR adds autonomous PR monitoring prompt and retrospective artifacts. No architectural concerns, correct directory structure, no breaking changes.

Security Review Details

I need to analyze this PR for security vulnerabilities. Let me first examine the changed files.

Let me continue reviewing the sessions directory for any additional changed files:

Based on my analysis of all the changed files in this PR, here is my security assessment:

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Security Analysis: PR #301 - Autonomous PR Monitoring Docs & Retrospective

Files Reviewed

File	Type	Risk Level
docs/autonomous-pr-monitor.md	Documentation	Low
.agents/retrospective/2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-recommendations.md	Analysis	Low
.agents/retrospective/2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-skills.md	Skills	Low
.agents/sessions/2025-12-23-session-80-autonomous-pr-monitoring-retrospective.md	Session Log	Low

Findings

Severity	Category	Finding	Location	CWE
Low	Information Disclosure	Bot account name exposed (rjmurillo-bot)	docs/autonomous-pr-monitor.md:8	CWE-200
Low	Documentation	Template variable placeholder exposed ({{GITHUB_REPO}})	docs/autonomous-pr-monitor.md:13	N/A

Analysis Details

1. Vulnerability Scanning (OWASP Top 10): [PASS]

• No injection vectors identified
• No authentication/authorization code
• No data processing or storage

2. Secret Detection: [PASS]

• No API keys, tokens, or credentials detected
• No hardcoded passwords or connection strings
• No .env file references with sensitive values
• {{GITHUB_REPO}} is a template placeholder, not a secret

3. Dependency Security: [PASS]

• No new dependencies added
• Documentation-only changes

4. Infrastructure Security: [PASS]

• No workflow file changes
• No script file changes
• Example code snippets in documentation are illustrative only

5. Shell Command Review: [PASS]

The docs/autonomous-pr-monitor.md contains example shell commands but these are:

• Documented patterns, not executed code
• Use gh CLI with proper parameter quoting
• No user input injection vectors

Recommendations

1. Bot account name (docs/autonomous-pr-monitor.md:8): The bot account rjmurillo-bot is mentioned directly. This is acceptable for internal documentation but consider using a variable or generic reference if the doc is public-facing.

2. Template placeholder (docs/autonomous-pr-monitor.md:13): The {{GITHUB_REPO}} placeholder is correct usage for a prompt template.

Verdict

VERDICT: PASS
MESSAGE: Documentation-only PR with no security vulnerabilities. Contains example commands and skill documentation for autonomous PR monitoring. No secrets, injection vectors, or security-sensitive code changes detected.

QA Review Details

Based on the PR description, this is a documentation-only PR combining PRs #299 and #300. Let me examine the relevant new files:

Let me check for any other new files and see what was changed by the combined PRs:

Now let me check for the autonomous PR monitoring prompt file mentioned in PR #299:

Let me check the HANDOFF.md for PR context and run linting validation:

Based on my review, this is a documentation-only PR combining:

1. PR docs: add autonomous PR monitoring prompt #299: Autonomous PR monitoring prompt documentation
2. PR docs(retrospective): autonomous PR monitoring session analysis #300: Session 80 retrospective analysis with 6 extracted skills

QA Review Summary

Test Coverage Assessment

Area	Status	Evidence	Files Checked
Unit tests	N/A	Documentation-only PR	No code files
Edge cases	N/A	Documentation-only PR	N/A
Error paths	N/A	Documentation-only PR	N/A
Assertions	N/A	Documentation-only PR	N/A

Quality Concerns

Severity	Issue	Location	Evidence	Required Fix
LOW	No verification of markdown lint	.agents/retrospective/*.md	Unable to run linter	Run linter before merge

Regression Risk Assessment

• Risk Level: Low
• Affected Components: Documentation only (.agents/retrospective/, .agents/sessions/)
• Breaking Changes: None
• Required Testing: Markdown linting validation

Documentation Quality Check

Document	Lines	Structure	Content Quality
2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-recommendations.md	612	Well-organized sections	6 skills with SMART validation, process improvements
2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-skills.md	610	Complete skill format	6 atomic skills (90-96% atomicity), code examples
2025-12-23-session-80-autonomous-pr-monitoring-retrospective.md	783	Full retrospective phases	5-phase analysis, learnings, handoff

Content Verification

• Skills extracted: 6 with atomicity scores 90-96%
• SMART validation: All 6 skills pass
• Deduplication check: Completed, all unique or appropriately related
• Evidence citations: PR Migrate GitHub Actions workflows to ARM runners for 37.5% cost reduction #224, feat(github-skill): enhance skill for Claude effectiveness #255, feat: Implement technical guardrails for autonomous agent execution #247, fix(ci): ensure Copilot Workspace Setup exits with success #298, docs: add autonomous PR monitoring prompt #299 referenced
• Code examples: Problem/Solution pairs provided for all skills

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VERDICT: PASS
MESSAGE: Documentation-only PR with well-structured retrospective analysis and 6 atomic skills extracted.

EVIDENCE:
- Tests found: N/A (documentation-only, no code changes)
- Edge cases: N/A (no executable code)
- Error handling: N/A (no executable code)
- Blocking issues: 0

DOCUMENTATION QUALITY:
- 3 markdown files, total ~2000 lines
- 6 skills with 90-96% atomicity scores
- All SMART validation criteria met
- Proper evidence citations (5 PRs)
- Code examples for all patterns

Analyst Review Details

PR #301 Analysis

Code Quality Score

Criterion	Score (1-5)	Notes
Readability	5	Clear structure, consistent formatting, well-organized sections
Maintainability	5	Documentation files with logical organization, skills have consistent format
Consistency	5	Follows existing .agents/ and .serena/memories/ patterns
Simplicity	4	Comprehensive but appropriately detailed for retrospective/skillbook content

Overall: 4.75/5

Impact Assessment

• Scope: Isolated (documentation and memory files only)
• Risk Level: Low (no code changes, all additions to documentation)
• Affected Components: .agents/retrospective/, .agents/sessions/, .serena/memories/, docs/

Findings

Priority	Category	Finding	Location
Low	Documentation	Skills extracted follow SMART validation format consistently	All files
Low	Style	Files use consistent heading hierarchy and markdown structure	All files

Recommendations

1. No changes required. The PR adds well-structured documentation.

Verdict

VERDICT: PASS
MESSAGE: Documentation-only PR adding retrospective analysis, skill extractions, and autonomous monitoring prompt. Files follow established patterns, use consistent formatting, and add 6 validated skills with 90-96% atomicity scores. No code changes, no breaking changes, no architectural concerns.

DevOps Review Details

Based on the PR description, this is a documentation-only PR combining PRs #299 and #300 with content about:

1. Autonomous PR monitoring prompt documentation
2. Session 80 retrospective analysis with skills extraction

Let me check the relevant directories for the new documentation files.

Let me check the .claude/commands directory for the autonomous PR monitoring prompt.

Now I have a complete picture. This is a documentation-only PR that adds:

1. Session 80 retrospective (.agents/sessions/2025-12-23-session-80-autonomous-pr-monitoring-retrospective.md)
2. Recommendations document (.agents/retrospective/2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-recommendations.md)
3. Skills document (.agents/retrospective/2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-skills.md)

Let me verify there are no workflow changes in this PR:

Based on the PR description and the files I've reviewed, this is a documentation-only PR combining:

1. PR docs: add autonomous PR monitoring prompt #299: Autonomous PR monitoring prompt documentation
2. PR docs(retrospective): autonomous PR monitoring session analysis #300: Session 80 retrospective analysis with 6 atomic skills extracted

Pipeline Impact Assessment

Area	Impact	Notes
Build	None	No source code changes
Test	None	No test file changes
Deploy	None	No deployment changes
Cost	None	No runner/resource changes

CI/CD Quality Checks

Check	Status	Location
YAML syntax valid	N/A	No workflow files modified
Actions pinned	N/A	No workflow files modified
Secrets secure	N/A	No workflow files modified
Permissions minimal	N/A	No workflow files modified
Shell scripts robust	N/A	No scripts modified

Findings

Severity	Category	Finding	Location	Fix
Low	Documentation	Skills reference undefined Skill IDs (Skill-PowerShell-006 through 008) that need memory integration	.agents/retrospective/2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-skills.md	Complete memory updates as documented in handoff

Template Assessment

• PR Template: Adequate (uses standard format with test plan)
• Issue Templates: Not applicable
• Template Issues: None

Automation Opportunities

Opportunity	Type	Benefit	Effort
Pre-deploy label validation script	Action	High (prevents workflow failures from missing labels)	Low
TestPathHelpers.psm1 module	Skill	Medium (reduces test path errors)	Low
Exit code reset template	Workflow template	Medium (prevents spurious failures)	Low

Recommendations

1. The retrospective documents reference process improvements (label validation, path helpers, exit code patterns) that should be tracked as follow-up work items
2. The skills extracted (Skill-PowerShell-006-008, Skill-CI-Infrastructure-004, Skill-Testing-Platform-001, Skill-Testing-Path-001) are well-documented and actionable
3. No CI/CD impact from this documentation PR

Verdict

VERDICT: PASS
MESSAGE: Documentation-only PR with no CI/CD impact. Contains valuable retrospective analysis and 6 atomic skills with 90-96% atomicity scores. Ready to merge.

Roadmap Review Details

Based on my review of the PR description and the product roadmap, I can now provide my strategic alignment assessment.

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Strategic Alignment Assessment

Criterion	Rating	Notes
Aligns with project goals	High	Documentation and retrospective support self-improvement system described in AGENTS.md
Priority appropriate	High	Autonomous PR monitoring supports reducing maintenance burden (v1.1 goal)
User value clear	Medium	Internal tooling improvement; indirect user benefit through better agent behavior
Investment justified	High	Low effort (docs only), enables continuous improvement loop

Feature Completeness

• Scope Assessment: Right-sized
• Ship Ready: Yes
• MVP Complete: Yes
• Enhancement Opportunities: None identified for this doc-only change

Impact Analysis

Dimension	Assessment	Notes
User Value	Medium	Improves agent skill extraction and PR monitoring efficiency
Business Impact	Medium	Reduces manual retrospective effort; 6 skills extracted (93% avg atomicity)
Technical Leverage	High	Creates reusable autonomous monitoring pattern for future sessions
Competitive Position	Improved	Self-improving agent system is a differentiator

Concerns

Priority	Concern	Recommendation
Low	Combined PR obscures individual changes	No action needed; both PRs are documentation
Low	Session 80 retrospective is internal-facing	Verify no internal PR references in user-facing files

Recommendations

1. Verify extracted skills pass SMART validation as claimed in test plan
2. Consider adding autonomous PR monitoring to Memory System documentation if pattern proves stable
3. Link retrospective findings to skillbook memory for cross-session retrieval

Verdict

VERDICT: PASS
MESSAGE: Documentation changes align with self-improvement system goals. Low-risk, high-leverage additions to skill extraction and PR monitoring capabilities.

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Pull request overview

This PR combines documentation for an autonomous PR monitoring system with a retrospective analysis of its first successful session. It adds a reusable prompt template for continuous PR monitoring along with 6 new atomic skills extracted from the monitoring session (93% average atomicity).

Key Changes:

• New autonomous PR monitoring prompt documentation with 120-second monitoring cycles and structured output format
• 6 atomic skills added to skillbook memories covering PowerShell cross-platform patterns, CI/CD infrastructure validation, and testing best practices
• Complete retrospective analysis with execution traces, Five Whys analysis, and SMART validation for all extracted skills

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

Show a summary per file

File	Description
docs/autonomous-pr-monitor.md	New documentation for autonomous PR monitoring prompt template with monitoring strategies, fix patterns, and example commands
.serena/memories/skills-powershell.md	Added 3 new skills: cross-platform temp paths (95%), here-string terminator syntax (96%), exit code persistence prevention (94%)
.serena/memories/skills-ci-infrastructure.md	Added skill for GitHub label pre-validation (92%) to prevent cascading CI failures
.serena/memories/powershell-testing-patterns.md	Added 2 new skills: platform requirement documentation (90%), absolute paths for test imports (91%)
.agents/sessions/2025-12-23-session-80-autonomous-pr-monitoring-retrospective.md	Complete session log with 5-phase retrospective framework, execution trace, and SMART validation results
.agents/retrospective/2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-skills.md	Detailed skill extraction document with problem/solution patterns and validation evidence for all 6 skills
.agents/retrospective/2025-12-23-autonomous-pr-monitoring-recommendations.md	Process improvement recommendations and memory update guidance based on retrospective findings

[rjmurillo]

@rjmurillo-bot we're going to hold this PR for a few cycles to allow you to run, gather more insights, and update your skills and knowledgebase. After every 5 cycles, run a retrospective and use skillbook to update your skills and memories. Update all artifacts to this PR.

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Pull request overview

Copilot reviewed 7 out of 7 changed files in this pull request and generated 9 comments.