Commit Push Close

commit-push-close

Close the linked issue directly as the final step of a ship. Work that should land through a pull request instead is /commit-push-pr — same shared ship policy, ending in a PR with Closes #N.

Issue commands show the GitHub default; a workspace-named tracker overrides them per Tracker in references/ship-policy.md.

Shared ship policy

Read [references/ship-policy.md](references/ship-policy.md) first — it holds every shared ship rule the steps below cite by bold section name, Read state through the Response footer. This SKILL.md only covers what is specific to closing the issue directly.

Issue-close comment format

Posted on the issue right before closing. PMs and stakeholders read it with no diff alongside — plain English throughout: no code identifiers, file paths, commands, or jargon. Optional sections are omitted when empty.

Closed by  on ``.

**What changed**

**How to confirm it's fixed**
1. 
2. 
3. 

Notes: 

Draft How to confirm it's fixed from the same underlying test plan as How-to-test rules (references/ship-policy.md), translated out of code — action and outcome in everyday words. A step with no user-facing surface names the capability it protects (e.g. "repeat submissions no longer double-charge"), not the test file.

Workflow

Emit Stage / Found / Next / Needs user at each phase transition — one line per field.

1. Read state — run the Read state commands in references/ship-policy.md. If the current branch is not the detected default, the code this close refers to may sit unmerged — say so and confirm direct close vs routing to /commit-push-pr; likewise when the repo requires PRs. If the user is away, continue drafting and surface this choice with the step-6 drafts — that combined approval remains the hard gate.

1. Resolve or create the issue — check, in order: branch name (e.g. feat/123-..., agent/PROJ-456-...), recent commits, conversation context. If none, switch to Inline issue creation (references/ship-policy.md) for valid small ad hoc work — drafted now, created only after step 6's combined approval; once created, fill its number into the commit Issue: line and step 10's ``.

1. Read issue labels — for pre-existing issues, run gh issue view --json state,labels,title,url and validate against the Label validation table in references/ship-policy.md, following its outcomes (stop states route to /triage; the taxonomy-absence fallback applies). Already CLOSED → stop and ask: reopen for this iteration, comment without closing, or target a different issue. Skip for issues just created inline — labels were set at creation.

1. Draft the commit message from the issue title and diff, per Commit message format and Naming anchor in references/ship-policy.md.

1. Draft the issue-close comment — plain-English What changed + How to confirm it's fixed from the diff (format above). If the underlying test plan isn't obvious, ask the user before continuing.

Before presenting drafts, run the Authorship policy scrub and, if env files/keys changed, the Env parity policy sync pass — both in references/ship-policy.md.

1. Show the user the drafts and wait for approval before any write action — one combined confirmation, not three:

• Existing issue: commit message + close comment.
• Inline-created issue: new-issue title + body + category/state labels + commit message + close comment. After approval, create the issue first, then commit/push/close in order.

If the user is away, present the drafts and stop — never commit, push, or close unapproved.

1. Pre-commit safety — apply every check in Pre-commit safety (references/ship-policy.md) before staging.

1. Commit using the quoted-HEREDOC form in Commit message format (references/ship-policy.md).

1. Push the current branch:

• Tracks a remote → git push.
• No upstream → git push -u origin .
• If the current branch is the detected default branch: stop and confirm separately before pushing — step 6's approval does not cover this push. If the user is away, leave the commit unpushed, skip the close (a close comment must reference a pushed commit), and surface both under Needs user in the report.
• Confirm the push landed before the close — non-error exit and git status -sb shows the branch up-to-date with its remote. A rejected push (non-fast-forward, auth expiry) stops the close.

1. Close the issue — when the underlying test plan contains a runnable test command, run it once first — a failing run stops the close: leave the issue open, report the failure (the commit is already pushed), and treat any fix as a new iteration through this skill; never close an issue whose own test plan fails. On a pass, state the outcome in plain English in How to confirm it's fixed — never paste the raw command or its output into the comment. Fill the drafted comment with the real values (short SHA via git rev-parse --short HEAD, current branch), write it to a temp file, then comment, close, and verify:

``bash gh issue comment --body-file .md gh issue close --reason completed gh issue view --json state -q .state # expect CLOSED ` The body file keeps backticks and $` literal — nothing for the shell to interpolate. "Closed" is earned by the state check, not a zero exit code; quote the returned state in the report.

1. Report — one line: pushed to ; issue # closed (state CLOSED verified). Push and close skipped (default branch, user away) → committed locally on ; push and close deferred, then a Needs user: line naming the confirmation still required. Push attempted and rejected (step 9) → committed locally on ; push REJECTED (), close stopped, then a Needs user: line naming the fix required (rebase/pull, re-auth) — a failure, not a deferral. In every case, append the Response footer from references/ship-policy.md.

Example

The matching commit message lives in Commit examples (references/ship-policy.md, issue #418).

Close comment:

Closed by 9f0e1a2 on `feat/418-idempotency`.

**What changed**
If a customer's checkout request is accidentally sent twice, we now charge them only once — the second attempt returns the same result instead of a duplicate charge.

**How to confirm it's fixed**
1. Submit the same checkout twice in a row.
2. The second submission returns the same confirmation — no extra charge is created.
3. Submitting two different orders still charges each separately.
   Automated checks confirm this behavior end to end.

Notes: The Stripe webhook path isn't covered by this fix yet — see follow-up #419.

Completion criteria

• [ ] Issue verified closed — gh issue view --json state -q .state → CLOSED (or the workspace tracker's completed state) — quoted in the report
• [ ] Close comment posted: What changed + How to confirm it's fixed, plain English, no code identifiers, commands, or raw test output; any runnable test outcome confirmed before closing and stated in plain English, never quoted verbatim
• [ ] Push landed: non-error exit and git status -sb shows the branch up-to-date with its remote — or the report carries the deferral/rejection line plus Needs user:
• [ ] Issue: line present in the commit body
• [ ] Label state valid: gh issue view --json labels shows one category label + a ready state label
• [ ] No co-author or AI/tool attribution text present in the commit message, issue content, or comments
• [ ] Hooks ran on the commit — no --no-verify in the command that made it

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

• Author: devarfeen
• Source: devarfeen/agent-skills-kit
• License: MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.