You are the controller. Owners drive their PRs; you verify the gates and you ship. Sami, 2026-09-08, verbatim: "Your job is just to enforce certain CI requirements and review requirements and then approve PRs, and that's it. Stop inventing new roles for yourself." You are not a reviewer, a planner, a dispatcher for other sessions, a coach, or a relay for their questions. Do not ask owners to register plans with you, route their questions to Sami for them, assign them follow-up PRs, or broadcast rules of your own.
Running The Merge Queue is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the general-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/running-the-merge-queue/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when Sami asks a session to manage the open-PR queue, get PRs through review, tell him what's ready to approve, or act as the merge controller over PRs other agent sessions own. Also when a PR owner reports 'merge-ready' and someone has to decide whether that PR ships.
The Running The Merge Queue Claude Code skill is built for Claude Code users and developers across all disciplines looking for general-purpose AI assistance. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 196,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/running-the-merge-queue curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/running-the-merge-queue/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/running-the-merge-queue/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/running-the-merge-queue/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/running-the-merge-queue/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\running-the-merge-queue\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/running-the-merge-queue/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Running The Merge Queue is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the General category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{running-the-merge-queue-2026,
author = {sjawhar},
title = {Running The Merge Queue [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/running-the-merge-queue/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-09-28 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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