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merge-contributor-pr

Take a contributor's pull request that cannot be merged as-is — usually a conflict with main — resolve the blocker without rewriting their commits, and merge it with a merge commit so their authorship survives. Detects the case where the conflict exists because the same feature already landed through another PR, and closes it as superseded (a credit-only merge only on request) instead of merging a no-op. Use when the user wants a PR fixed up and merged while keeping the original author's commits.

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# Merge a Contributor PR Without Losing Their Commits

target_pr = the user's request

If `target_pr` is not provided, use the PR of the current branch. Whichever way
it is resolved, confirm it matches `^[0-9]+$` before putting it in a command —
every other PR-derived value below is quoted and validated, and the PR number
should not be the one exception.

This skill exists for the case where a PR is good but not mergeable — most often
it conflicts with `main` because something else landed first. The goal is to
clear the blocker and merge, while the contributor's commits stay in the history
exactly as they wrote them.