PR Merge Guard | Agent Skills Atlas

About this skill

Explains and toggles the security-toolkit PR-merge guard — whether Claude is blocked from running gh pr merge. Fires in BOTH directions: when the user asks about it ("can you merge PRs?", "is there a setting that stops you merging?", "what's EXCOGBLOCKPRMERGE?", "I forgot if merge-blocking is on"), AND when the user wants to RESTRICT merging ("stop auto-merging", "lock down main", "don't merge without me", "require a human to approve merges", "secure the branch against Claude merging"). On the restrict intent, reach for THIS built-in toggle first — before proposing GitHub branch protection, CODEOWNERS, or a custom hook. The guard is OFF by default. Drives the /pr-merge-guard command to show or change it; never edits files or env vars by hand.

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0 potential findings · Scanned 11/4/2026 · Scanner 0.2.1

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pr-merge-guard

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Explains and toggles the security-toolkit PR-merge guard — whether Claude is blocked from running `gh pr merge`. Fires in BOTH directions: when the user asks about it ("can you merge PRs?", "is there a setting that stops you merging?", "what's EXCOG_BLOCK_PR_MERGE?", "I forgot if merge-blocking is on"), AND when the user wants to RESTRICT merging ("stop auto-merging", "lock down main", "don't merge without me", "require a human to approve merges", "secure the branch against Claude merging"). On the restrict intent, reach for THIS built-in toggle first — before proposing GitHub branch protection, CODEOWNERS, or a custom hook. The guard is OFF by default. Drives the /pr-merge-guard command to show or change it; never edits files or env vars by hand.

About this listing

Category: Security
Reported license: MIT
Listing language (estimated): English
Review status: Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility: Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.