Dependabot PRs — Git skill for Claude Code
Dependabot PR Review & Merge Skill.
How to install Dependabot PRs
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/aws-solutions-library-samples-accelerated-intelligent-document-processing-on-aws-dependabot-prs/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/aws-solutions-library-samples-accelerated-intelligent-document-processing-on-aws-dependabot-prs && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aws-solutions-library-samples/accelerated-intelligent-document-processing-on-aws/HEAD/.claude/skills/dependabot-prs.md -o ~/.claude/skills/aws-solutions-library-samples-accelerated-intelligent-document-processing-on-aws-dependabot-prs/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dependabot PRs does
Dependabot PR Review & Merge Skill
Use this skill when the user asks to **review, triage, retarget, or merge Dependabot PRs** (e.g. "review the new dependabot PRs", "merge the dependabot bumps if safe").
Three invariants — never skip any of them:
- Always retarget to
develop. Dependabot opens PRs againstmain(the repo default branch), but all work in this repo merges todevelopfirst. - Always assess risk per PR before merging (see checklist below). Never bulk-merge o
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Full documentation available on GitHub
View Source RepositoryRelated Skills
Dependabot Merge
Interactively review and merge Dependabot PRs for a GitHub repo
Merge Dependabot PRs
@description Evaluate and merge dependabot PRs with parallel builds, dependency-aware batching, and transitive
Merge Dependabot
Merge Dependabot PRs
Review Cycle
Multi-reviewer review→fix cycle over one or more open PRs — parallel reviewers, structured findings, inline-vs
Push PR
Skill: Push PR (review → fix → merge → ship named PRs to production)
Dependabot Alert Review Skill
Claude Code skill that triages Dependabot vulnerability alerts before a fix PR exists, checking real exploitab
Related Agents
Session Workflow
Session startup and shutdown discipline — use at the start and end of every development session to orient from
Dependency Update Reviewer
Reviews dependency version bumps for safety across the monorepo. Use when Dependabot PRs arrive, pnpm.override
Dependabot Round Robin.Agent
Use when managing Dependabot PRs across open-policy-agent/gatekeeper, open-policy-agent/gatekeeper-library, op