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A human product, design, or technical decision is required before continuing.

Human involvement is required because automation cannot safely proceed alone.

Suitable entry point for a new contributor.

Additional contribution or ownership is actively welcome.

Problem validated with evidence; does not imply priority, scheduling, or approval to implement.

Actively being investigated by the assignee; coordinate before starting overlapping work.

Awaiting specific information from the reporter or requester before work can continue.

Needs a minimal reproducible example with steps, environment, and expected vs. actual behavior.

Needs maintainer assessment, prioritization, or routing before work can proceed.

Approved and scoped for implementation, with acceptance criteria and no unresolved blockers.

Safe to merge automatically once required gates pass, after review approval.

Technically ready, but intentionally blocked from merging.

Primarily a question or request for clarification.

The reported behavior is intentional and working as designed.

The same problem, request, or discussion is already tracked elsewhere.

The premise, report, or request is invalid or not applicable.

Replaced by a newer issue, decision, design, or implementation direction.

Valid request or issue that has intentionally been declined.

High-impact, sensitive, or difficult-to-reverse change.

Low-impact and easy-to-reverse change; lightweight review is sufficient.

Moderate-impact change requiring deliberate review.

Part of a stacked PR chain and should be reviewed in dependency context.

Maintenance, tooling, dependencies, or repository housekeeping.

Removes dead code, deprecated paths, lint debt, or obsolete artifacts.

Defines or changes an API, interface, schema, IPC, protocol, or boundary shape.

Defines or changes data entities, value objects, domain data, or related invariants.

Updates dependencies, versions, lockfiles, or package relationships.

Introduces a new capability or meaningful user-facing behavior.

Corrects broken or unintended existing behavior.

Adds, changes, flips, or removes release, control, permission, or experiment flags.