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PR Status Monitor

PR Status Monitor

Avraham Hamu

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Stop refreshing GitHub — get real-time pull request CI status, notifications, and one-click navigation directly in your VS Code status bar.
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📡 PR Status Monitor

Stop refreshing GitHub. Get real-time pull request CI status, smart notifications, and one-click navigation — all from your VS Code status bar.

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🚀 Quick Start — 3 Steps

  1. Install — Search for "PR Status Monitor" in the VS Code Extensions panel, or click the button below:

    Install from Marketplace

  2. Sign in to GitHub — When prompted, authorize VS Code to access your GitHub account. The extension uses VS Code's built-in GitHub authentication — no personal access tokens needed.

  3. You're done! — Open any workspace with a Git repo. Your PR statuses appear instantly in the status bar:

    Status Bar

    (3 open PRs: 1 passing, 1 failed, 1 pending)


✨ Features

🚥 Real-time CI Status at a Glance

See the combined status of all your authored PRs across every repo and worktree in your workspace — without leaving your editor.

  • 🟢 Passing — All checks succeeded
  • 🟠 Pending — Checks still running
  • 🔴 Failed — Action required

🔔 Smart Notifications

Get notified the moment a PR's status changes — no more anxiously refreshing the GitHub checks tab.

  • ✅ "PR #123 is now passing!" when a pending PR passes all checks
  • ❌ "PR #123 has failed!" when a pending PR fails
  • Each notification includes a "View PR" button to jump directly to the PR

PR Status Change Notifications

🤖 Copilot-Powered Failure Investigation

When a PR fails, let GitHub Copilot help you understand why — without leaving VS Code.

  • On failure, Copilot Chat opens automatically with a pre-filled prompt asking it to investigate the build failure
  • The failure notification also gains an "Investigate" button as a manual re-trigger

PR Status Change Notifications

🚀 Universal Worktree Support

Works seamlessly with multi-root workspaces and Git worktrees. Tracks PRs you authored across all repositories and worktrees open in your editor.

🖱️ One-Click Navigation

Click the status bar widget to open your latest active PR directly in your browser.

📊 Rich Tooltips

Hover over the status bar item to see an organized breakdown of all your open PRs and their individual build statuses.

🔄 Reliable Connectivity

Fast 10-second retry polling during startup and after connection loss — you're always up to date.


⚙️ Configuration

Setting Type Default Description
prStatusMonitor.pollingInterval number 2 How often to check PR status (in minutes). Min: 0.5 (30s), Max: 60.
prStatusMonitor.showInvestigateOnFailure boolean false When enabled, automatically opens Copilot Chat with a pre-filled investigation prompt when a PR build fails. Also adds an "Investigate" button to the failure notification.

To change these settings:

  1. Open Settings (Cmd+, / Ctrl+,)
  2. Search for "PR Status Monitor"
  3. Adjust the desired values

Or add to your settings.json:

{
  "prStatusMonitor.pollingInterval": 0.5,
  "prStatusMonitor.showInvestigateOnFailure": true
}

📋 Requirements

Requirement Details
VS Code 1.103.0 or newer
GitHub Signed in via VS Code's built-in GitHub auth

🤔 Why PR Status Monitor?

Without PR Status Monitor With PR Status Monitor
Alt-Tab to browser, navigate to GitHub, find your PR, check the status... repeat every 5 minutes Glance at your status bar — done
Miss a failed check and waste 30 minutes waiting Get notified instantly when your PR fails or passes
Forget which repo had the pending PR All PRs from all open repos aggregated in one place

👨‍💻 Author

Created with ❤️ by Avraham Hamu.

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