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List my open MRs/PRs in the current repo/worktree, each with its tracker ticket.
Install List Open Work
$ npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills list-open-work --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/list-open-work .claude/skills/list-open-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "list-open-work" agent skill from https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills/tree/main/skills/list-open-work into .claude/skills/list-open-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "list-open-work", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills/tree/main/skills/list-open-workType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills list-open-work --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/list-open-work .agents/skills/list-open-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "list-open-work" agent skill from https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills/tree/main/skills/list-open-work into .agents/skills/list-open-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "list-open-work", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills list-open-work --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/list-open-work .cursor/skills/list-open-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "list-open-work" agent skill from https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills/tree/main/skills/list-open-work into .cursor/skills/list-open-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "list-open-work", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.git --path skills/list-open-work--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills list-open-work --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/list-open-work .gemini/skills/list-open-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "list-open-work" agent skill from https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills/tree/main/skills/list-open-work into .gemini/skills/list-open-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "list-open-work", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills list-open-workInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/list-open-work .github/skills/list-open-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "list-open-work" agent skill from https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills/tree/main/skills/list-open-work into .github/skills/list-open-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "list-open-work", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills list-open-work --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/list-open-work .opencode/skills/list-open-work && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "list-open-work" agent skill from https://github.com/OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills/tree/main/skills/list-open-work into .opencode/skills/list-open-work/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "list-open-work", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
list-open-work- GitHub stars
- 199
- Token cost
- ~1.5k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 734 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 22
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
List my open MRs/PRs in the current repo/worktree, each with its tracker ticket.
- I invoke /list-open-work
- SKILL.md covers This repo only, Output format, Collect and Then, in prose
- Calls glab, git and gh
- Ask what I have open
What it does
List Open Work is an agent skill from OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills. List my open MRs/PRs in the current repo/worktree, each with its tracker ticket. Use when I invoke /list-open-work, or ask what I have open, what's in review, or for a standup list of my open MRs or PRs.
Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Productivity & Automation, covering Git worktrees and Meeting notes and agendas. The repository describes itself as: Skills that drive best-in-class engineering. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- I invoke /list-open-work
- Ask what I have open
- Whats in review
- For a standup list of my open MRs
Example prompts
- “/list-open-work”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 8a97904. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
glabgitgh
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use glab, git and gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
List Open Work loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 55 tokens; SKILL.md has 734 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
The full file from OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills at commit 8a97904, republished under its MIT licence (© OutThisLife). 734 words, ~1,479 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/list-open-work/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- list-open-work
- description
- List my open MRs/PRs in the current repo/worktree, each with its tracker ticket. Use when I invoke /list-open-work, or ask what I have open, what's in review, or for a standup list of my open MRs or PRs.
/list-open-work
Answer one question: what of mine is open in this repo, and which ticket does each carry? Lead with the list. Anything else goes after it, in prose.
This repo only
Scope is the git checkout you are in (worktree or primary). Read its origin.
List my open MRs/PRs against that remote. Stop there.
- Not a git repo → say so and stop. Do not hunt another project.
- Do not list another origin, org, forge, or tracker from memory, another session, or another worktree.
- Infer the ticket key from this repo's branches/titles (e.g.
PROJ-123infeat/PROJ-123-slug). Never reuse a prefix you saw somewhere else.
git rev-parse --show-toplevel
git remote get-url originOutput format
Write it straight into the chat as ordinary rendered markdown. Never wrap it in a code fence — the links have to be clickable.
Blank line between every item. Markdown treats a single newline as a space, so adjacent lines become one paragraph. That is a failure. Each MR is its own paragraph: newline, blank line, next line.
Exactly this shape. Header is Open MRs: or Open PRs:. No bullets, no emoji.
The number and the ticket key are both links. Ticket sits in trailing [KEY].
Open MRs:
!42 - shorten the save path [PROJ-101]
!41 - default the new flag on [PROJ-99]
!30 - expose status history on the public API
- Descending by number.
!Non GitLab,#Non GitHub. "MRs" vs "PRs" likewise. - One paragraph each:
<!|#><N> - <title> [<KEY>]. No bold. - Ticket in trailing
[KEY]. Move it there if the author buried it mid-title:perf: PROJ-77 — cut over-fetchbecomesperf: cut over-fetch [PROJ-77]. - No ticket → omit the
[KEY]. Don't invent one, don't write(no ticket). - Keep the MR/PR title as-is (minus the relocated key). Don't rewrite it.
Wrong (renders as one wrapped line):
Open MRs:
!42 - shorten the save path [PROJ-101]
!41 - default the new flag on [PROJ-99]Pasting into Slack is a separate ask. Forge/tracker integrations linkify !42
and PROJ-101 on their own, so that version is the same lines with the link
syntax stripped — still one item per line.
Collect
Mine means authored by me. Resolve my username from the API — never guess it.
GitLab origin:
glab api user
glab api "projects/<url-encoded-path>/merge_requests?state=opened&scope=all&per_page=100"Filter to author = me. <url-encoded-path> is this origin's path, not a
path from another repo.
GitHub origin: gh pr list --author @me --state open --json number,title,headRefName,body
Ticket = first \b[A-Z][A-Z0-9]+-\d+\b in the title, then the branch, then the
description. Use that key's tracker host as this repo uses it — don't guess a
site from another company.
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Jira account verification
Validate actual Jira results against the repository's tracker project; acli jira auth status alone can report the intended site while searches still reach another account. If project keys or API hosts contradict the expected workspace, explicitly select the saved account with acli jira auth switch --site <repo-tracker-host> --email <verified-email>, then read back a known ticket before trusting the list. Do not reuse results from the wrong site.
Use acli jira workitem search --paginate and compare the distinct fetched count against the same JQL with --count. Search has a restricted field list; retrieve timestamps, descriptions, and comments with workitem view --fields summary,description,status,priority,assignee,updated,comment,issuelinks --json instead. Read comments before classifying Testing tickets as new implementation work.
Then, in prose
Only the things that change what I'd do next:
- Conflicts with the default branch — blocked, not in review. GitLab recomputes
mergeability lazily, so a plain MR GET happily returns a stale
has_conflicts: false. Force it and readmerge_status:
glab api "projects/<path>/merge_requests/<iid>?include_diverged_commits_count=true"
# cannot_be_merged + has_conflicts → needs a rebase; diverged_commits_count = how far behind- Red pipelines (
head_pipeline.status). - Ticket status that contradicts the MR: green with every thread resolved but the ticket still says In Progress.
- No ticket plus months of age — give the age, offer to close.
Skip approvals unless asked. Don't narrate fields that changed nothing.
For GitHub readiness checks, read submitted review bodies and human PR comments as well as paginated inline threads. A COMMENTED review can contain explicit merge blockers even when unresolved inline-thread count is zero and CI is green. Match each review to its reviewed head; older findings need rechecking rather than being asserted as current defects.
Keep CI conclusions, conflict status, and substantive review blockers separate. Query gh pr checks for each current head; UNKNOWN mergeability is unverified, not conflict-free. Persist the inventory and aggregate counts programmatically before reporting totals.
When this repository uses GitHub issues rather than tracker keys, inspect explicit issue links in the PR body as well as closingIssuesReferences. An intentionally non-closing reference can be the real attached ticket. Read the issue's state and discussion before changing it; a partial fix or pending live verification can require keeping it open.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in skills/list-open-work of OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 8a97904
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| List Open Work this skillOutThisLife/brooklyn-skills | 199 | — | ~1.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Process Inboxtelegramdesktop/tdesktop | 33k | 2 repos | ~4.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 | |
| Meeting Notesoutline/outline | 41k | — | ~551 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Management Talkthananon/9arm-skills | 3.2k | — | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| Challenge Baseline ModelAgibotTech/genie_sim | 1.4k | — | ~2.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Handwriting Stand Uplimin112/min-skill | 362 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | None |
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Questions about List Open Work
What does List Open Work do?
List my open MRs/PRs in the current repo/worktree, each with its tracker ticket. List Open Work is an agent skill from OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills. List my open MRs/PRs in the current repo/worktree, each with its tracker ticket.
When should I use List Open Work?
List Open Work fits situations like: I invoke /list-open-work; ask what I have open; whats in review; for a standup list of my open MRs.
How do I install List Open Work in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/list-open-work in OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills) into .claude/skills/list-open-work in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install List Open Work in Codex?
Run `npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/list-open-work in OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills) into .agents/skills/list-open-work in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use List Open Work in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills --skill list-open-work -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/list-open-work, .gemini/skills/list-open-work, .github/skills/list-open-work and .opencode/skills/list-open-work in your project.
What does List Open Work need to run?
Going by SKILL.md and its folder, List Open Work needs the command-line tools its instructions call (glab, git and gh).
Does List Open Work access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use git and gh, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is List Open Work safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does List Open Work use?
List Open Work is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does List Open Work use?
About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.9k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to List Open Work?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with List Open Work: Process Inbox (telegramdesktop/tdesktop, 33k stars), Meeting Notes (outline/outline, 41k stars), Management Talk (thananon/9arm-skills, 3.2k stars) and Challenge Baseline Model (AgibotTech/genie_sim, 1.4k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains List Open Work?
OutThisLife (a GitHub user) maintains it in OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills, which has 199 GitHub stars. The repository holds 22 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: OutThisLife/brooklyn-skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.