Replace the stale triage label vocabulary with the org label taxonomy (#97)

`docs/agents/triage-labels.md` named five labels that do not exist in the tracker (`needs-triage`, `needs-info`, `ready-for-human`, `wontfix`). Meanwhile the org has an 18-label taxonomy at https://git.westgate.pw/org/ShadowsOverWestgate/settings/labels that agents never touched, because no doc pointed at it — `Kind/Bug` had been used twice across every repo.

This replaces the doc with the real taxonomy and makes one `Kind/*` label required on every issue and PR at creation time. `AGENTS.md` gets the short version.

Enforcement lands separately in `sow-platform` (`ops/policy/labels.yml` + a nightly `ops/checks/check-labels.sh` drift check). Identical doc change in every `sow-*` repo.Reviewed-on: #97

Co-authored-by: vickydotbat <vickydotbat@tutamail.com>
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Issues live in Gitea at git.westgate.pw (`ShadowsOverWestgate/sow-tools`), managed with the `tea` CLI. Issues follow ownership — file work in the repo that owns it, not the one you happen to be standing in. See `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`.
### Triage labels
### Labels
Default label vocabulary (`needs-triage`, `needs-info`, `ready-for-agent`, `ready-for-human`, `wontfix`). See `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`.
Every issue and PR gets exactly one org-wide `Kind/*` label at creation (`Kind/Bug`, `Kind/Feature`, `Kind/Enhancement`, `Kind/Documentation`, `Kind/Testing`, `Kind/Security`); `Priority/*`, `Status/*`, `Reviewed/*` and `Compat/Breaking` are optional. `tea issues create -L "Kind/Bug"`. See `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`.
### Domain docs
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# Triage Labels
# Issue and PR labels
The skills speak in terms of five canonical triage roles. This file maps those roles to the actual label strings used in this repo's issue tracker (Gitea — see `issue-tracker.md` for how to apply labels with `tea`).
Labels are **org-wide**. They are defined once, for the whole
`ShadowsOverWestgate` org, at
<https://git.westgate.pw/org/ShadowsOverWestgate/settings/labels>, and every
repo in the org can use them. Never create a per-repo copy of a label that
already exists at org level.
| Label in mattpocock/skills | Label in our tracker | Meaning |
| -------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
| `needs-triage` | `needs-triage` | Maintainer needs to evaluate this issue |
| `needs-info` | `needs-info` | Waiting on reporter for more information |
| `ready-for-agent` | `ready-for-agent` | Fully specified, ready for an AFK agent |
| `ready-for-human` | `ready-for-human` | Requires human implementation |
| `wontfix` | `wontfix` | Will not be actioned |
## The rule
When a skill mentions a role (e.g. "apply the AFK-ready triage label"), use the corresponding label string from this table.
**Every issue and every pull request gets exactly one `Kind/*` label, at the
moment it is created.** Not later, not "when someone triages it". If you open
it, you label it.
Edit the right-hand column to match whatever vocabulary you actually use.
An issue with no `Kind/*` label is untriaged. That is the only meaning of
"untriaged" here — there is no `needs-triage` label.
The other groups are optional, and each one is *exclusive*: an issue can carry
at most one `Priority/*`, one `Status/*`, and one `Reviewed/*`. Gitea enforces
this.
```sh
# always from inside the owning repo's clone
tea issues create --title "..." --description "..." --labels "Kind/Bug" </dev/null
tea pr create --title "..." --description "..." --labels "Kind/Feature" </dev/null
# add a label to something that already exists
tea api --method POST "repos/ShadowsOverWestgate/<repo>/issues/<n>/labels" \
--data '{"labels":["Kind/Bug","Priority/High"]}'
```
## Kind — what this is (pick exactly one)
| Label | Use it when |
| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `Kind/Bug` | Something that used to work, or is documented to work, does not |
| `Kind/Feature` | New functionality that does not exist yet |
| `Kind/Enhancement` | Existing functionality gets better, faster, or nicer |
| `Kind/Documentation` | Docs, ADRs, runbooks, agent guides |
| `Kind/Testing` | Tests, CI checks, contract scripts |
| `Kind/Security` | Secrets, auth, permissions, hardening, a vulnerability |
Bug vs Enhancement, when it is unclear: if the current behaviour is wrong, it
is a bug. If the current behaviour is right but weak, it is an enhancement.
## Priority — how urgent (optional, at most one)
`Priority/Critical`, `Priority/High`, `Priority/Medium`, `Priority/Low`.
Leave it off if you do not know. A wrong priority is worse than none.
## Status — why it is not moving (optional, at most one)
| Label | Meaning |
| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
| `Status/Blocked` | Waiting on another issue, PR, or decision |
| `Status/Need More Info` | Waiting on the reporter or on a human answer |
| `Status/Abandoned` | Work started and stopped; nobody is on it |
## Reviewed — the verdict (optional, at most one)
`Reviewed/Confirmed`, `Reviewed/Duplicate`, `Reviewed/Invalid`,
`Reviewed/Won't Fix`. Apply one of these when closing without a fix, so the
reason survives.
## Compat
`Compat/Breaking` — add it on top of the `Kind/*` label when the change breaks
something that already works for a player, an operator, or another repo.
## Workflow labels (repo-level, not org-level)
These live in the repo, not the org, and are orthogonal to the groups above:
- `ready-for-agent` — the spec is complete; an AFK agent may pick this up.
No label means it needs a human.
- `wayfinder:map`, `wayfinder:task`, `wayfinder:research`,
`wayfinder:prototype`, `wayfinder:grilling` — set by `/wayfinder`. Leave
them alone unless you are running a wayfinder operation.
- `sow-nodebb` also has `package/*` labels naming the plugin or theme a ticket
touches.
## When a skill names a label we do not have
Skills written elsewhere (mattpocock/skills and friends) use a different
vocabulary. Translate it:
| Skill says | Do this here |
| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
| `needs-triage` | Nothing — no `Kind/*` label already means this |
| `needs-info` | `Status/Need More Info` |
| `ready-for-agent` | `ready-for-agent` |
| `ready-for-human` | Nothing — absence of `ready-for-agent` means this |
| `wontfix` | `Reviewed/Won't Fix` |
## Drift check
`ops/checks/check-labels.sh` in `sow-platform` runs nightly. It compares the
live org labels to `ops/policy/labels.yml` and lists every open issue and PR in
the org that does not have exactly one `Kind/*` label. That check is the
enforcement; this file is the rule.