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The five labels this doc named (needs-triage, needs-info, ready-for-human, wontfix) do not exist in the tracker. The org has an 18-label taxonomy (Kind/*, Priority/*, Status/*, Reviewed/*, Compat/Breaking) that agents never used, because nothing pointed at it. Kind/Bug had been applied twice, ever. Document the real set, make one Kind/* label required on every issue and PR, and map the outside-skill vocabulary onto labels that exist. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Issue and PR labels
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Labels are **org-wide**. They are defined once, for the whole
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`ShadowsOverWestgate` org, at
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<https://git.westgate.pw/org/ShadowsOverWestgate/settings/labels>, and every
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repo in the org can use them. Never create a per-repo copy of a label that
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already exists at org level.
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## The rule
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**Every issue and every pull request gets exactly one `Kind/*` label, at the
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moment it is created.** Not later, not "when someone triages it". If you open
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it, you label it.
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An issue with no `Kind/*` label is untriaged. That is the only meaning of
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"untriaged" here — there is no `needs-triage` label.
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The other groups are optional, and each one is *exclusive*: an issue can carry
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at most one `Priority/*`, one `Status/*`, and one `Reviewed/*`. Gitea enforces
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this.
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```sh
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# always from inside the owning repo's clone
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tea issues create --title "..." --description "..." --labels "Kind/Bug" </dev/null
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tea pr create --title "..." --description "..." --labels "Kind/Feature" </dev/null
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# add a label to something that already exists
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tea api --method POST "repos/ShadowsOverWestgate/<repo>/issues/<n>/labels" \
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--data '{"labels":["Kind/Bug","Priority/High"]}'
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```
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## Kind — what this is (pick exactly one)
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| Label | Use it when |
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| -------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| `Kind/Bug` | Something that used to work, or is documented to work, does not |
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| `Kind/Feature` | New functionality that does not exist yet |
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| `Kind/Enhancement` | Existing functionality gets better, faster, or nicer |
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| `Kind/Documentation` | Docs, ADRs, runbooks, agent guides |
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| `Kind/Testing` | Tests, CI checks, contract scripts |
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| `Kind/Security` | Secrets, auth, permissions, hardening, a vulnerability |
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Bug vs Enhancement, when it is unclear: if the current behaviour is wrong, it
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is a bug. If the current behaviour is right but weak, it is an enhancement.
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## Priority — how urgent (optional, at most one)
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`Priority/Critical`, `Priority/High`, `Priority/Medium`, `Priority/Low`.
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Leave it off if you do not know. A wrong priority is worse than none.
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## Status — why it is not moving (optional, at most one)
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| Label | Meaning |
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| ----------------------- | -------------------------------------------- |
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| `Status/Blocked` | Waiting on another issue, PR, or decision |
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| `Status/Need More Info` | Waiting on the reporter or on a human answer |
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| `Status/Abandoned` | Work started and stopped; nobody is on it |
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## Reviewed — the verdict (optional, at most one)
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`Reviewed/Confirmed`, `Reviewed/Duplicate`, `Reviewed/Invalid`,
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`Reviewed/Won't Fix`. Apply one of these when closing without a fix, so the
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reason survives.
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## Compat
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`Compat/Breaking` — add it on top of the `Kind/*` label when the change breaks
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something that already works for a player, an operator, or another repo.
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## Workflow labels (repo-level, not org-level)
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These live in the repo, not the org, and are orthogonal to the groups above:
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- `ready-for-agent` — the spec is complete; an AFK agent may pick this up.
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No label means it needs a human.
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- `wayfinder:map`, `wayfinder:task`, `wayfinder:research`,
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`wayfinder:prototype`, `wayfinder:grilling` — set by `/wayfinder`. Leave
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them alone unless you are running a wayfinder operation.
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- `sow-nodebb` also has `package/*` labels naming the plugin or theme a ticket
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touches.
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## When a skill names a label we do not have
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Skills written elsewhere (mattpocock/skills and friends) use a different
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vocabulary. Translate it:
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| Skill says | Do this here |
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| ----------------- | ------------------------------------------------- |
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| `needs-triage` | Nothing — no `Kind/*` label already means this |
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| `needs-info` | `Status/Need More Info` |
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| `ready-for-agent` | `ready-for-agent` |
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| `ready-for-human` | Nothing — absence of `ready-for-agent` means this |
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| `wontfix` | `Reviewed/Won't Fix` |
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## Drift check
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`ops/checks/check-labels.sh` in `sow-platform` runs nightly. It compares the
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live org labels to `ops/policy/labels.yml` and lists every open issue and PR in
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the org that does not have exactly one `Kind/*` label. That check is the
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enforcement; this file is the rule.
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