Drive an open PR

Read each resource when reaching its substep, preserving the publication mode:

Substep	Resource
4.2, current CI and mergeability	ci.md in the shared otto-drive-pr skill (load it)
4.3, independent Polly and OCR reviews	the shared otto-pr-review-loop skill (load it)
4.1, preview after CI and both reviews are clean	preview.md in the shared otto-drive-pr skill (load it)
4.4, live-validation instructions	validation-prompt.md
4.5, final review and maintainer handoff	final-review.md

Use read_skill_file with the owning skill's name and the relative filename, or read relative to the directory supplied by the native Skill tool. Workflow-owned author runs read only validation-prompt.md for deferred body preparation; local-only author runs skip this skill. Review-remediation follows its mode's exemptions. Load resolve-handoff before any interim or final handoff.

A draft proposal with an unresolved design choice follows resolve-publish's incomplete handoff exception. Do not enter this readiness loop or promote the draft just to satisfy review_cycle.py.

When .omnigent/pr-gate.json exists, use the checked-publication commands in resolve-publish for all PR writes, including replies to findings. CI's instructions govern reviewer outages and review budgets. Do not use the direct write, approval, fork takeover, or token-recovery recipes in this mode.

Step 4 — Land the PR: preview, green CI, clean review, hand it to the maintainer

This step applies to any PR you are driving toward landable — the one you opened (author path, Step 2B/3) and the existing PR you reviewed and kept as the fix (review path, Step 2A, when its approach was sound). The goal is identical either way: a live preview, green CI, a clean automated review, a copy-paste live-validation command, and a maintainer tagged. skip_push runs (author path that only committed locally) have no PR to land, so skip Step 4 entirely. Workflow-owned author runs also have no PR during the agent session: perform only the deferred body/prompt preparation called out in Step 4.4 before the final handoff, and leave preview, CI, both reviews, GitHub comments, and maintainer tagging to the post-publication workflow. Once a directly published or reviewed PR is up you stay on it until CI is green and the review is clean, then hand it to a human. The sub-steps overlap in time (kick off the preview and the first review, then poll), so don't serialize what can run concurrently.

Refresh the shared impact assessment after changes made in this loop, including CI/review fixes and conflict resolution. Earlier green checks do not cover a new head automatically.

Whose branch — push or take over. On the author path the PR is yours: push fix commits freely. On the review path the PR is someone else's; whether you can land a fix depends on where its branch lives:

• In-repo PR branch (the head branch is on omnigent-ai/omnigent, not a fork) → you have write access. Push fixes the same as the author path, then re-check. Say in your review comments that you pushed, so the author isn't surprised.
• Fork PR (the head branch is on a contributor's fork, head.repo.fork == true) → the App token cannot push there, but CI may provide an isolated maintainer credential specifically for that transport. Read maintainerCanModify, headRepositoryOwner, headRepository, and headRefName from gh pr view.
  • If maintainerCanModify is true and git config --get omnigent.forkPushTokenFile names a readable file, preserve the contributor's branch. Keep the App token exported as GH_TOKEN for all visible actions. For the push only, use CI's credential-isolating helper:

    omnigent-push-fork --repo <owner>/<repo> --branch <head-branch>
    

    The helper uses GIT_ASKPASS, clears the checkout's App-token extraheader only for that push, and keeps the maintainer token out of command arguments, remote URLs, and git's failure output. Never read or copy the token file yourself, and never use it for gh pr comment/review/create; those commands must remain bot-attributed through the App token.
  • If the fork PR needs a fix and maintainer edits are disabled, the token file is absent, or the isolated push returns a real permission error → take over: open your own PR that includes their work plus your fix. This is the same mechanic as the "approach is wrong" escape hatch (Step 2A), but the reason is different — the approach is fine, you just can't push the fix to a fork. Build it so the contributor keeps credit:
    • Branch off main, cherry-pick the fork PR's commits (gh pr checkout <pr> then replay onto your branch, or git cherry-pick), then add your fix on top.
    • Credit the original author on the commits (Co-authored-by: <name> <email>, read from gh pr view <pr> --json commits).
    • In your PR body, put Supersedes #<pr> on its own line, credit @<author>, and say why you re-opened it (couldn't push to the fork). The duplicate-PR workflow exempts trusted resolve-agent replacement PRs.
    • Comment on the fork PR as soon as yours opens, but leave it open while the replacement is being reviewed:

      gh pr comment <fork-pr> --body 'Replacement #<your-pr> is open because maintainer fork updates were unavailable. Your commits are carried over with credit. This PR will remain open until the replacement merges. Thanks @<author>!'
      

      The trusted post-merge workflow reads the Supersedes #<pr> marker and closes the contributor PR only after your replacement is merged. Never close a contributor PR merely because a replacement was opened.
    • Set mode: "authored_fix", record the fork PR's number in reviewed_pr_url, and drive your PR through the rest of Step 4 (you can push to it).
  • If the fork PR needs no fix (repro passes against it, CI green, review clean) → there's nothing to push, so keep it. Since you're a pure independent reviewer here, submit an approving review (2A.5) with the findings + the try-it-out command, then tag the maintainer. No takeover needed. (The approval is a bot indicator — the maintainer's approval still merges it.)

Throughout, address the PR you're landing by its number <pr>. Continue until current CI and both independent reviews are settled; follow the workflow-provided review budget when present; otherwise there is no fixed review-round cap. After every push, request both Polly and OCR for the new head (Step 4.3), including pushes for CI or conflict repairs. A fork takeover starts this loop on the replacement PR. If a concrete blocker or actual execution deadline prevents completion, leave a resumable checkpoint and report outcome: "partially_fixed" with the unresolved work (see Output). Never loosen a test, skip a check, or merge to force green.