Share a PR Babysitter failure story

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Goal

PR Babysitter is high-token and easy to misconfigure. We want another honest failure story.

Files

• New stories/<your-slug>.md
• Update stories/README.md

Acceptance criteria

• Pattern: PR Babysitter
• What stalled, false-merged, reviewer-missed, or blew the token budget
• Detection + what you changed (limits, verifier, cadence, kill switch)
• Actionable lesson in one paragraph
• Link or contrast with stories/pr-babysitter-week-one.md if useful

Inspiration

• stories/pr-babysitter-week-one.md
• stories/why-we-killed-ci-sweeper.md

Estimated time: ~1 hour · same-day review
Comment I'll write this → PR → link here.

[cobusgreyling]

📖 Story wanted: PR Babysitter failure report — loops that stalled, false merges, reviewer misses, or token blowups.

We explicitly want honest failure stories. See existing entries in stories/ for tone.

~1 hour · good first issue. Comment "I'll write this" for assignment + fast maintainer review.

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Community announcement with help-wanted table and merge highlights: #130 — comment "I'll take this" here to get assigned.

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Thanks for opening this — it is triaged and welcome!

How to contribute: see CONTRIBUTING.md. Story issues: use the share-story template. Docs/matrix issues: open a PR against main; no issue assignment needed.

Maintainers review good first issue items weekly. If you are picking this up, comment here and link your PR when ready.