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name: maintainer-review
description: Review a GitHub issue or pull request URL as a redis-py maintainer, with a staged assessment of whether the claim is real, practically important, already solvable with supported functionality, correctly scoped, better served by another design, and worth maintainer and contributor effort. Use when assessing issue validity or severity, deciding whether an issue should be prioritized or closed, determining whether a requested feature represents an unmet need rather than a discoverability or usage gap, judging whether a PR is worth bringing to mergeable quality, comparing open PRs or alternative designs, separating code quality from repository readiness, or drafting a concise maintainer assessment. When closure, additional evidence, or code changes should be requested, also produce a polite, concise, complete, copy-paste-ready maintainer comment.
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The full instructions for this skill live in
`.agents/skills/maintainer-review/SKILL.md` (relative to the redis-py repo root), with
its helper files under `.agents/skills/maintainer-review/references/`.

**Read `.agents/skills/maintainer-review/SKILL.md` in full now and follow it exactly.**
Treat its contents as the body of this skill.
