---
title: "Keep working after your pull request is merged"
description: "A merged or closed pull request locks the canvas's code changes. Duplicate the canvas to keep going on a fresh branch."
url: https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/44-keep-working-after-your-pull-request-is-merged
collection: "Share and review"
updated: 2026-10-29
language: en
---

# Keep working after your pull request is merged

A merged or closed pull request locks the canvas's code changes. Duplicate the canvas to keep going on a fresh branch.

When your engineers merge the pull request, or close it without merging, the canvas keeps its frames but can no longer change code. To keep building, duplicate the canvas: the copy gets a branch and a pull request of its own.

**Before you start**

-   A canvas whose pull request was merged or closed in GitHub. The Portals on it are dimmed.
    

## Steps

1.  Click the GitHub button in the canvas header. The popover says **Merged**, "Your changes were merged into your codebase. To keep working, duplicate this canvas." For a pull request closed without merging it says **Closed**.
    
2.  Click **Duplicate canvas**. When the **Canvas created** message appears, click **Open**.
    

The copy opens, named after the original with **(copy)**. It starts from your repository's branch, merged change included, and its header has no pull request yet. Work in it as usual. The first **Sync to Github** opens a new pull request, see [Create a pull request](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/46-create-a-pull-request.md).

## If you keep clicking in the old canvas

Double-clicking a dimmed Portal, opening Build Mode, or sending a message in its chat opens the dialog **Pull request merged**: "The pull request for this canvas was merged. A canvas can only have one pull request, so you can no longer make code changes here. To keep working, duplicate this canvas." **Duplicate canvas** there does the same as the popover. **Got it** closes it. For a closed pull request the dialog is **Pull request closed**.

**Open on Github** in the popover opens the merged pull request, for example to read the review comments.

## If it does not work

-   **The canvas is still locked after the copy opened**: that is the original. The copy is listed next to it on **Home**, with **(copy)** in its name.
    
-   **A message starting with "Couldn't duplicate"**: the copy was not made. The messages are explained in [Duplicate a canvas](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/37-duplicate-a-canvas.md).
    

## Related

-   [Duplicate a canvas](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/37-duplicate-a-canvas.md)
    
-   [How changes reach your pull request](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/47-how-changes-reach-your-pull-request.md)
    
-   [Create a pull request](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/46-create-a-pull-request.md)

## Related

- [See the code the agent changed](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/49-see-the-code-the-agent-changed.md)
- [Create a pull request](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/46-create-a-pull-request.md)
- [How changes reach your pull request](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/47-how-changes-reach-your-pull-request.md)
- [Create a preview link](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/45-create-a-preview-link.md)
- [Share a link to the page you are on](https://help.modeinspect.com/en/articles/48-share-a-link-to-the-page-you-are-on.md)