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Per-repo configuration the engineering skills read instead of guessing. Without it they cannot tell whether to call gh, write markdown under .scratch/, or follow some other workflow.

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docs/agents/issue-tracker.md GitHub issues via the gh CLI, matching the remote. Includes the wayfinder map / sub-issue / dependency operations.
docs/agents/triage-labels.md The five canonical triage roles mapped to this repo's label strings.
docs/agents/domain.md Single-context layout: one CONTEXT.md and docs/adr/ at the root.

CLAUDE.md gains an ## Agent skills section pointing at the three files.

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External pull requests are a request surface. They run through the same labels and states as issues. GitHub shares one number space across issues and PRs, so the recorded convention resolves a bare #42 with gh pr view and falls back to gh issue view.

wontfix already existed and is reused, not recreated. That is the point of the mapping table: triage applies existing labels rather than creating duplicates. The other four roles had no label, so needs-triage, needs-info, ready-for-agent and ready-for-human were created in the repo alongside this change. All five now resolve.

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No CONTEXT.md and no docs/adr/. The consumer rules in domain.md say to proceed silently when they are absent, and that /domain-modeling creates them lazily when a term or decision is actually resolved. Adding empty ones now would contradict that.

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  • Documentation

    • Added guidance for issue and pull-request triage, domain exploration, repository conventions, and canonical triage labels.
    • Documented local pre-commit OpenGrep checks and updated testing requirements.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Merge commit subjects are now parsed for release tags, ensuring qualifying feature merges receive the appropriate version bump instead of a patch release.
  • Tests

    • Added coverage for release parsing, workflow permissions, security auditing, and local OpenGrep enforcement.
  • Chores

    • Replaced the CI OpenGrep job with workflow security auditing.

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The change adds agent skill documentation, local OpenGrep pre-commit hooks, workflow security checks, dependency update cooldowns, and regression tests. It also configures semantic-release to parse merge commit subjects.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Agent skill guidance
CLAUDE.md, docs/agents/*
Documents domain exploration, GitHub issue and pull-request triage, wayfinding, and canonical labels.
Local hooks and workflow policy
.pre-commit-config.yaml, .github/workflows/*, .opengrep/README.md, packaging/test_policy.py, README.md
Moves OpenGrep checks to local pre-commit hooks, adds zizmor workflow auditing, updates reusable workflow references, and validates hook, permission, pagination, and audit policies.
Dependency update policy
.github/dependabot.yml
Adds seven-day cooldowns for Cargo, Rust toolchain, and GitHub Actions updates.
Merge commit release policy
pyproject.toml, packaging/test_policy.py
Sets ignore_merge_commits = false and verifies that merge commit subjects are parsed.

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Change: Other · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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This change adds engineering and triage documentation, local pre-commit scanning hooks, a workflow security audit job, dependency update cooldowns, and merge-commit release parsing, plus regression tests for those policies. No functional defect was identified. One open documentation concern remains about how the wayfinding guidance describes selecting the next ticket, which could lead to picking a blocked or out-of-order item; it is safe to merge with that follow-up noted.

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The engineering skills read per-repo configuration from docs/agents/ rather than
guessing. Without it they cannot tell whether to call gh, write markdown under
.scratch, or follow some other workflow.

Issues live as GitHub issues, matching the remote. External pull requests are
treated as a request surface, so they run through the same labels and states as
issues.

Triage labels keep the five canonical role names. wontfix already existed in this
repo and is reused rather than recreated; needs-triage, needs-info,
ready-for-agent and ready-for-human were created for the remaining roles.

Domain docs are single-context: one CONTEXT.md and docs/adr/ at the root. Neither
exists yet, and the consumer rules say to proceed silently rather than scaffold
them, so no empty files are added here.
Pull requests merge with merge_commit_title = PR_TITLE, so the conventional
subject sits on the merge commit itself. python-semantic-release ignores merge
commits by default, so that subject was dropped and the bump came from the branch
commits instead, where the strongest was fix:.

That is why both releases so far under-bumped: PR #1 titled "feat: Initial
baseline" released 0.0.2, and PR #4 titled "feat: attach the packages to the
release and gate the dependency tree" released 0.0.3. Both merge commits carry two
parents, which is exactly how the parser detects them:

    def is_merge_commit(commit): return len(commit.parents) > 1

Measured on a scratch repository tagged v0.1.0, with a fix: commit on the branch
and a feat: merge subject: the default prints 0.1.1, and this setting prints
0.2.0. The alternative, always squash merging, was rejected because the repository
allows merge commits and the title setting already puts the subject where it needs
to be read.

The test asserts the setting rather than re-running the release tool, because the
check job installs no uv and a skipped test would guard nothing in CI.
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In `@docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`:
- Line 8: Update the “Read an issue” instruction to request structured fields
with gh issue view’s --json option, including number, title, body, comments, and
labels, before applying jq; remove the --comments-only approach while preserving
the existing filtering behavior.
- Line 23: Update the external PR triage command to use gh api with the REST
author_association field instead of gh pr list --json authorAssociation, while
preserving filtering to CONTRIBUTOR, FIRST_TIME_CONTRIBUTOR, and NONE and
excluding OWNER, MEMBER, and COLLABORATOR.
- Line 43: Update the Frontier query instructions to fetch the map with gh issue
view --json subIssues, iterate children in the ordered subIssues list, and
inspect each child’s blockedBy and assignees before selecting the first eligible
open child. Use the gh GraphQL field names rather than the REST
issue_dependencies_summary shape, and preserve task-list order when subIssues is
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Three commands in the vendored issue-tracker template did not work against the
real CLI. Each replacement is verified with gh.

`gh issue view --comments` prints human-readable text, so it cannot feed jq.
Read structured fields with `--json` instead.

`gh pr list --json authorAssociation` fails with "Unknown JSON field". The REST
pulls endpoint exposes `author_association`, so external-PR triage uses
`gh api` with `--paginate`, because a repository can hold more open PRs than
one page returns.

The wayfinder frontier query used `gh issue list`, which returns the 30 most
recent issues and does not preserve map order. It now reads the map's ordered
`subIssues`. It also reads each child's `body`: sub-issues and dependencies are
separate GitHub features, so a repository can list children natively while
recording blockers as a `Blocked by: #<n>` line, which leaves `blockedBy` empty.
…izmor

CodeRabbit skips its own opengrep pass when it sees opengrep in the workflows.
The CI job therefore traded CodeRabbit's broad packs for this repo's two narrow
rules, which is a loss. The ruleset now runs from a local pre-commit hook, so
both apply. Both hooks carry a `files` filter, so a commit that touches neither
`src/` nor the rules costs nothing.

The freed job slot runs zizmor, which audits the workflows themselves for
permissions, injection and unpinned actions. No other gate looks at them. It
runs with `advanced-security: false`: the SARIF upload needs
`security-events: write`, which a called workflow cannot hold unless every
caller grants it, and the findings already gate the job.

zizmor's `self-repository` findings are applied. `uses: ./.github/workflows/x`
became `uses: $/.github/workflows/x`, the self-repository syntax, which is
itself a form of pinning.

New policy guards, each verified to fail against the unfixed tree:

- no workflow mentions opengrep, and the hook config resolves through
  pre-commit's own loader to hooks that run the right script at the
  pre-commit stage over every source and ruleset file on disk. Resolving the
  config catches a hook neutered by `types`, `types_or`, `exclude_types` or a
  global `files`/`exclude`, none of which touch the `files` filter.
- a called workflow never requests more permission than any caller grants,
  compared on effective permissions so a job that inherits a top-level block
  is read correctly. GitHub refuses such a run rather than trimming it.
- the zizmor step runs unconditionally and propagates failures.
- the external-PR query pages past the first response, exercised against a
  local HTTP server that emits a `Link: rel="next"` header.

The regression tests run each guard against a mutated copy of the tree, so a
guard that stops guarding fails.

`packaging/test_policy.py` now needs pre-commit and gh. checks.yml and
README.md declare that.
Three review findings on the issue-tracker skill shared one root cause: a `gh`
command in the document named a `--json` field the CLI does not have. `gh pr
list --json authorAssociation` fails with "Unknown JSON field", so the skill
was unusable at that step.

The guard reads every `gh <group> <sub> ... --json <fields>` command in
docs/agents/, asks that subcommand for its accepted field set, and asserts each
documented field is in it. An empty `--json` prints the set, and gh validates
the names before auth and before any request, so the check needs no token and
no network.

Verified red against the pre-fix document: it reports
"gh pr list has no --json field 'authorAssociation'".
The zizmor job failed on its first CI run. The action audits the repository root
by default, so it reads `.github/dependabot.yml`, which the documented local
command never did: it passed `.github/workflows/`. Three `dependabot-cooldown`
findings were invisible locally and only appeared in CI.

Each ecosystem now waits 7 days before Dependabot proposes a new release, so a
compromised version has time to be yanked before it reaches a PR here. This is
zizmor's own fix, applied with `--fix=all`.

The documented command becomes `uvx --native-tls zizmor .`, which reproduces the
CI file set exactly: dependabot.yml, the four workflows, and
.pre-commit-config.yaml.

New guard, verified red against the previous command: the documented zizmor
invocation must audit the same inputs and use the same persona as the CI job,
resolved against the action's own defaults. It follows the job, so widening CI
alone also fails it.

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34-34: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use the shared PR-first resolver for ticket fetches.

The document requires PR-first resolution for bare references, but the ticket-fetch instruction always runs gh issue view <number> --comments. The GitHub CLI provides separate commands for pull requests and issues. Use the PR-first fallback:

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

ref="${1:?pass an issue or pull-request number}"

if gh pr view "$ref" --comments >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  echo "Resolved as pull request"
else
  gh issue view "$ref" --comments >/dev/null
  echo "Resolved as issue"
fi
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In `@docs/agents/issue-tracker.md` at line 34, Update the ticket-fetch instruction
around the gh issue view command to use PR-first resolution for bare references:
attempt gh pr view with comments first, then fall back to gh issue view with
comments when the reference is not a pull request, preserving strict failure
handling and clear resolution output.

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In `@docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`:
- Line 23: Update the external PR triage command to include gh api’s --slurp
option and flatten the paginated page arrays with .[][] before filtering, so the
command returns one JSON value across all pages. Preserve the existing
author_association filter and selected output fields.

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In `@docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`:
- Line 34: Update the ticket-fetch instruction around the gh issue view command
to use PR-first resolution for bare references: attempt gh pr view with comments
first, then fall back to gh issue view with comments when the reference is not a
pull request, preserving strict failure handling and clear resolution output.

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Four review rounds found 4, 5, 6 and 3 defects, every one in a guard and none in
product code. Round 4's three were one mistake in two places: each guard wrote
its own extractor for commands documented in Markdown, and each got it wrong
differently. The gh guard missed `--json=value` and `--json "value"`, and
truncated `title_typo` to the valid field `title`. The zizmor guard discarded
every token starting with `-`, so `--collect=workflows`, which excludes
dependabot.yml and reopens the exact hole that guard exists to close, passed.
Both read only backtick spans, so a `~~~` fence was invisible.

One extractor now serves both. It reads inline code and both fence forms, joins
line continuations, splits at shell operators so a second command in one block
is checked too, tokenizes with shlex, and normalizes `--opt=value` and
`--opt value` to one shape. A field matches only as a complete token. Each guard
is a rule over that structure rather than a regex over raw text.

Two documented commands were wrong:

`gh api --paginate` emits one JSON value per page, so the external-PR query
returned output that no single `json.loads` could read. `--slurp` collects the
pages into one array, but gh rejects it with `--jq` ("the `--slurp` option is
not supported with `--jq` or `--template`"), so the filter moves to a separate
`jq` and flattens one extra level with `.[][]`.

"Fetch the relevant ticket" ran `gh issue view` unconditionally, ignoring the
PR-first rule this same document states: a bare number can be either.

The pagination guard now proves both properties it only appeared to prove. Its
fixture puts a matching record on each page, so reading page 1 alone fails, and
it parses with one `json.loads`, so dropping `--slurp` fails. It runs the
command through `bash -o pipefail`, so a gh failure cannot hide behind jq.

Policy tests 34 to 41. Every guard verified against a mutated tree: the
mutations round 4 proved, plus quoting, continuation and operator cases.
The tests now need `jq` and Bash, which README.md records.
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…command

The frontier query listed `state,blockedBy,assignees` and then told the reader to
add `body`. An agent running the documented command as written never fetched
`body`, so it could not see a `Blocked by: #<n>` fallback line and would treat a
blocked child as ready. The command now requests `body`, and the trailing
instruction to add it is gone rather than left beside a command that already has
it.

The existing guard could not catch this: it checks that every documented `--json`
field exists in the CLI, not that a documented procedure fetches what its own
prose says it reads. The new guard closes that: within one Markdown step, any
backticked token that is a real JSON field for a gh subcommand used in that step
must appear in some `--json` list in the same step. A mention satisfied by
another command in the step is fine, which is why `subIssues` on the map query
does not trip the child query, and a token that is not a real field is ignored,
which is why the external-PR step can name `authorAssociation` to say gh lacks it.

The gh field probe moved into one cached helper. Both guards now read the
accepted field set from the same place instead of each running its own probe.

The first version of this guard passed against the unfixed document because it
read match group 1, the backticks, instead of group 2, the content. It was inert
and looked correct. The regression covers a field dropped from the command, a
field named only in prose, and both negative cases above.

Policy tests 41 to 43.
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