SKILL

triage

Move issues and external PRs through a state machine of triage roles, categorise, verify, grill if needed, and write agent-ready briefs.

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  • Triage
  • Reference docs
  • Roles
  • Invocation
  • Show what needs attention
  • Triage a specific issue or PR
  • Quick state override
  • Needs-info template

Move issues on the project issue tracker through a small state machine of triage roles. If this repo treats external pull requests as a request surface (see the issue-tracker config), triage covers them too: a PR is an issue with attached code, using the same roles, same states, and same machine, with a few deltas marked "for a PR" below. Resolve a bare #42 to an issue or PR per the tracker config. Every comment or issue posted to the issue tracker during triage must start with this disclaimer: AGENT-BRIEF.md: how to write durable agent briefs OUT-OF-SCOPE.md: how the .out-of-scope/ knowledge base works Two category roles: bug: something is broken enhancement: new feature or improvement Five state roles: needs-triage: maintainer needs to evaluate needs-info: waiting on reporter for more information ready-for-agent: fully specified, ready for an AFK agent ready-for-human: needs human implementation wontfix: will not be actioned For a PR, the same states read against the attached code: ready-for-agent means a brief is attached and an agent should take the next step on the diff; ready-for-human means it's ready for a human to merge. Every triaged issue should carry exactly one categor

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mattpocock/skills
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skills/engineering/triage/SKILL.md
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