GitHub ships stacked pull requests

GitHub’s stacked pull requests are now in public preview, letting teams break a large change into an ordered series of small, focused pull requests, each targeting the layer beneath it, that can be reviewed independently and merged together with one click. The feature works natively with GitHub’s existing reviews, checks, and branch protections, and is accessible via github.com, the GitHub CLI (gh extension install github/gh-stack), the mobile app, or a coding agent like GitHub Copilot using the gh-stack skill. Next.js lead Tim Neutkens said Vercel has used stacked PRs for months, calling it easier to review large features as narrowly scoped changes; jQuery creator John Resig said landing five stacked PRs directly into a merge queue at once “removes so much friction.”

What it means for operators

This targets a real workflow bottleneck that agentic coding has made worse: bigger, more frequent AI-generated diffs that are hard to review as single monolithic PRs. If you’re running coding agents that produce large changes, pairing them with the gh-stack skill lets you keep merge-queue velocity while still reviewing each layer of the change on its own.