Walk a contributor through forking a GitHub repo they don't own, branching, committing, and opening a PR back to upstream – using gh and git. Invoke when the user wants to contribute to a repo where they lack write access: "I want to make a PR to ", "contribute a fix to ", "fork this and PR up", "open a PR against ", or when they've already cloned an upstream-not-fork and a git push would fail. Handles the four states a contributor can be in (no clone yet / cloned upstream directly / fork already exists locally / fork exists on GitHub but not cloned), forks via gh repo fork --clone --remote so origin and upstream are wired correctly, helps name a branch, then PAUSES for the user to make their commits before pushing and opening the PR with gh pr create. Not for: pushing to a repo the user already owns (no fork needed – just git push + gh pr create); diagnosing 403s from missing SAML SSO grants on gh tokens (one-time per org, not part of the per-PR flow – tell the user to grant SSO at github.com/settings/tokens and retry); resolving merge conflicts; multi-PR / stacked-diff workflows.
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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI
Supported by the Atlas install prompt. Skill-specific requirements vary.
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About this skill
Walk a contributor through forking a GitHub repo they don't own, branching, committing, and opening a PR back to upstream – using gh and git. Invoke when the user wants to contribute to a repo where they lack write access: "I want to make a PR to ", "contribute a fix to ", "fork this and PR up", "open a PR against ", or when they've already cloned an upstream-not-fork and a git push would fail. Handles the four states a contributor can be in (no clone yet / cloned upstream directly / fork already exists locally / fork exists on GitHub but not cloned), forks via gh repo fork --clone --remote so origin and upstream are wired correctly, helps name a branch, then PAUSES for the user to make their commits before pushing and opening the PR with gh pr create. Not for: pushing to a repo the user already owns (no fork needed – just git push + gh pr create); diagnosing 403s from missing SAML SSO grants on gh tokens (one-time per org, not part of the per-PR flow – tell the user to grant SSO at github.com/settings/tokens and retry); resolving merge conflicts; multi-PR / stacked-diff workflows.
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Walk a contributor through forking a GitHub repo they don't own, branching, committing, and opening a PR back to upstream – using `gh` and `git`. Invoke when the user wants to contribute to a repo where they lack write access: "I want to make a PR to <repo>", "contribute a fix to <repo>", "fork this and PR up", "open a PR against <upstream>", or when they've already cloned an upstream-not-fork and a `git push` would fail. Handles the four states a contributor can be in (no clone yet / cloned upstream directly / fork already exists locally / fork exists on GitHub but not cloned), forks via `gh repo fork --clone --remote` so `origin` and `upstream` are wired correctly, helps name a branch, then PAUSES for the user to make their commits before pushing and opening the PR with `gh pr create`. Not for: pushing to a repo the user already owns (no fork needed – just `git push` + `gh pr create`); diagnosing 403s from missing SAML SSO grants on `gh` tokens (one-time per org, not part of the per-PR flow – tell the user to grant SSO at github.com/settings/tokens and retry); resolving merge conflicts; multi-PR / stacked-diff workflows.
About this listing
Category
General
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.
Claude Code
Codex
Cursor
GitHub Copilot
Gemini CLI