Software EngineeringOpen accessPublished 3 Oct 2026
Decide whether planned vertical implementation work should ship as independent pull requests or as a stack of small ordered pull requests, then plan, build, review, update, and merge the stack safely. Use when one slice is too large for effective review, when later slices should proceed on the same evolving baseline before earlier pull requests merge, when AI-generated code volume needs deliberate review boundaries, when a plan already defines dependent pull request boundaries or non-trunk bases, or when the user mentions stacked PRs, PR stacks, dependent PRs, gh-stack, bottom-up review, or splitting an implementation across branches. Do not use this skill to split epics …