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feat: improve pr-review skill - no-ghost-review rule and multi-OS in_reply_to example #413

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Problem & Motivation

The pr-review skill had no guidance on how to post follow-up replies to existing review threads. In practice, posting individual replies via pulls/comments/{id}/replies before submitting the main review creates a separate ghost review object per reply on GitHub, polluting the review history.

Additionally, the in_reply_to example only had a PowerShell variant, making the skill inconsistent with the rest of the file which covers both Windows and Linux/macOS.

Proposed Solution

Add a clearly-labelled warning block in Step 5 Branch B of the skill:

  • Forbid posting individual thread replies before the main review
  • Document how to bundle replies into the single POST /reviews call using the in_reply_to field
  • Provide both PowerShell and bash variants

Bump skill version to 1.2.0.

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n/a - documentation-only change

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agent_name: GitHub Copilot
llm: Claude Sonnet 4.6
tool: VS Code Chat
confidence: high
source_event: ghost reviews observed during PR #395 review session
discovery_method: runtime_observation

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