triage

Invoke the triage workflow in natural language, such as asking what needs attention or naming a specific issue number. The assistant gathers full issue context, verifies claims against the codebase, recommends a category and state, and applies labels with structured comments.

An agent brief is a structured comment posted when an issue reaches ready-for-agent state. It describes desired behavior, key interfaces, testable acceptance criteria, and explicit scope boundaries so an autonomous agent can implement the change without further clarification.

Yes, external PRs are treated as issues with attached code and move through the same states. The assistant checks out the diff, runs relevant tests to confirm the PR does what it claims, and writes briefs describing remaining work on the existing diff.

Rejected enhancements are recorded as concept files in a .out-of-scope/ directory with the decision, reasoning, and prior request links. During triage, new issues are matched against these files by concept similarity so prior rejections surface before re-litigation.

Use ready-for-human when the work requires judgment calls, external access, design decisions, or manual testing that an autonomous agent cannot perform. The brief follows the same structure but notes why delegation is not possible.