backport

backport is a Branching, merging & history skill for AI agents, published by microsoft in the vscode-cosmosdb repository on GitHub. Skillspace rates backport F (45/100) and the safety scan rated it risky; the rating is based on static analysis only.

Backport changes (current branch, a PR, a branch, or specific commits/SHAs) onto a target branch (typically a release branch like `rel/*`). Use when the user says "backport this", "backport PR ...", "cherry-pick to <branch>", or asks to port commits to another branch. Handles stashing uncommitted work, branch creation, cherry-picking with conflict handling, pushing, and opening a PR.

Grade
F
Quality
45 / 100
Safety
Risky
GitHub stars
198

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Our review

Architecture
99 / 100
Maturity
Basic: a single SKILL.md
Security scan
High-risk patterns
License
MIT
Adoption
Adopted by 0 other repositories, in 0 collections

What the scanner flagged

  • references sensitive credential env
  • mentions secrets in text

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