Labels

• agent-ready

  agent-ready

  Fully specified and briefed; eligible for autonomous pickup from the frontier.

• area: security

  area: security

  Security-relevant: vulnerability, hardening, or disclosure follow-up.

• automated

  automated

  Opened by automation.

• dependencies

  dependencies

  Dependency updates (Dependabot / Renovate).

• do-not-merge

  do-not-merge

  Hard merge gate: do not merge while applied.

• good first issue

  good first issue

  Good entry point for new contributors.

• governance: managed

  governance: managed

  Label taxonomy managed by github-iac/Labels.cs; hand edits are pruned on the next apply.

• help wanted

  help wanted

  Maintainer would welcome help.

• link-check

  link-check

  Link-check report issues from the link-check workflow.

• needs-human

  needs-human

  Human-in-the-loop required; autonomous sessions must not resolve items carrying this.

• priority: critical

  priority: critical

  Production broken, data loss, active exploit, or release blocker.

• priority: high

  priority: high

  Significant impact, or blocks an imminent release; staff this cycle.

• priority: low

  priority: low

  Nice-to-have, cosmetic, or speculative; opportunistic.

• priority: medium

  priority: medium

  Real value, no hard deadline; normal backlog flow.

• priority: needs-triage

  priority: needs-triage

  Default until a priority tier is assigned.

• question

  question

  Needs more information or is a support/discussion request; not actionable work yet.

• recurring

  recurring

  Scheduled maintenance item reconciled against .github/recurring-schedule.json.

• stale

  stale

  Inactive; managed by the stale workflow.

• standards-sync

  standards-sync

  Standards-config sync PRs from the standards-sync workflow.

• status: needs-decision

  status: needs-decision

  Awaiting a human or maintainer judgment call.

• status: needs-info

  status: needs-info

  Missing reproduction or details from the reporter.

• status: ready

  status: ready

  Triaged, unblocked, and fully specified; eligible to pick up.

• wayfind: design

  wayfind: design

  Wayfind decision item: design-space or domain-model decision; human in the loop.

• wayfind: interview

  wayfind: interview

  Wayfind decision item: contract/requirements call the user must make; human in the loop.

• wayfind: prototype

  wayfind: prototype

  Wayfind decision item: feasibility or UX unknown answered by a throwaway; human in the loop.

• wayfind: research

  wayfind: research

  Wayfind decision item: external-evidence question; autonomous-capable.

• wayfind: task

  wayfind: task

  Wayfind decision item: decision-unblocking do-work; no feature code, no PR tie.

• work-class: mechanical

  work-class: mechanical

  Deterministic, trivially reversible maintenance: dependency bumps, lint/format, sync.

• work-class: read-only

  work-class: read-only

  Audits, research, reports. No repository mutation; tracker and queue writes only.

• work-class: scoped

  work-class: scoped

  A briefed fix or small feature; blast radius bounded by the brief, tests exist.