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Promptless automatically skips draft pull requests. Documentation updates are only triggered when the pull request is marked as ready for review.
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## Configuration Files and dot-Directories
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Citation: Based on PR #1991 which adds _is_dot_path() helper and dot-file check in GithubTrigger.should_skip_agent_run(). Context: a customer's repo had 28 PRs containing only .beads/issues.jsonl files that were being incorrectly processed.
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Promptless automatically skips pull requests that only contain changes to dot-directories (like `.github/`, `.circleci/`, `.beads/`) or root-level dot-files (like `.gitignore`, `.editorconfig`). These are typically CI and tooling configuration rather than product changes that need documentation updates.

If a PR contains both dot-files and regular source files, Promptless processes it normally—it only skips when the entire PR is dot-file changes.

## Setup Instructions

To connect GitHub to Promptless, see the [GitHub Integration](/docs/integrations/github-integration) setup guide.