Add the backlog-burndown Skill and Seat Its Orchestration in the Skills It Drives - #1291
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…ls It Drives Working one issue is drive-pr's job. Working a whole backlog is a different problem, and nothing packaged it: parallelism is bounded by file overlap rather than by agent count, the backlog changes every round as reviews file deferral issues, and a prose-heavy repository conflicts on content rather than on syntax, so two agents rewording one section produce a conflict no tool resolves. backlog-burndown is the orchestrator's procedure. It ranks the open issues, groups them so no file is claimed twice, verifies each claim against everything in flight before dispatching, runs at most four workers that each drive their own feature -> develop pull request, opens at most one develop -> main promotion pull request per round for the maintainer to merge, and re-ranks from scratch. It performs no edit of its own and never merges main. Three sibling skills needed seating for a dispatched seat to follow them: - drive-pr: a dispatched drive takes its target from the brief rather than asking, and a brief is never itself an authorization, which binds the dispatching seat rather than asking a worker to verify a grant it cannot verify. - pr-review-conduct: an agent that cannot reach the maintainer escalates to whoever dispatched it, and the dispatcher asks at the point that work stopped rather than holding the question. - local-strict-review: the reviewer's tier is the one the dispatch can name rather than the one a down-tiered worker runs on, with the headless route named for a seat that cannot dispatch at all. AGENTS.md carries the map entry and one Session Scope exception, since a run spanning many branches and merges would otherwise end at its first merge. The exception is narrow and lands in the file that owns the rule rather than in the skill that needs it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Three whole-content review rounds over the merged branch raised twenty defects in the new skill and in the three siblings it seats. Two were destructive and the rest were contradictions between sections or instructions no seat could perform. The closing-issue derivation would have deleted the backlog it exists to work. It read the issues each feature pull request's body referenced, and a body routinely references the deferral issues its own review round filed, which have to stay open as the next round's ranking input. Feature pull requests now carry an explicit "Closes on promotion:" line naming only what they fix, the worker brief requires it, and the promotion body reads that line and never the mentions. The dead-worker worktree takeover was self-refuting. It said no read distinguishes a dead worker from a slow one, then handed that worktree to a replacement told to commit in it, which is two live tasks in one tree whenever the first was merely slow. Liveness now comes from the dispatch mechanism, a clean tree is retired and its issue re-ranked, and a dirty one is left untouched for the maintainer. The rest, by kind: - The freeze licensed work no seat could do, since a worker's only procedure pushes at its second step. Preparation is orchestrator work and dispatch waits, with the promotion fix named as the one exception rather than denied by an unqualified rationale. - The worker brief never carried the claimed file set, the out-of-bounds files, or the stop-and-report duty, so the file-claim system this skill exists for was inert. A subagent cannot respect a claim nobody gave it. - Cleanup cited a procedure that reads a merged pull request, which an abandoned group has not got. That case now confirms the branch carries nothing unmerged and stops for the maintainer rather than discarding. - A claim comment recorded a branch the orchestrator could not know, since the worker named its own. The brief names it. - Two false citations went: GOVERNANCE.md states no rule about a brief conferring a grant, and repo-worktree bans forcing a removal only, not an add. - local-strict-review's headless route is a vendor CLI that never carries this skill's brief, so it is not the fallback for a seat that cannot dispatch. That seat reports and does not push. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
…indings A local review round over the branch's whole diff raised nine defects, and the canonical passes over each unit it moved raised more. What runs through most of them is one confusion: retiring a worktree and deleting its branch were treated as one disposition with one test, so a removal that discards nothing routed to the maintainer and a removal that discards commits was waved through. The two are now stated apart once, in "Cleanup Is the Orchestrator's". Retiring a worktree alone risks only what is uncommitted in it, so a clean tree is the whole test and the branch's contents do not enter it. Deleting the branch as well risks what is committed, so it carries whichever branch check the group's state calls for, and the no-merge substitute is scoped away from merged groups, since a squash merge never makes a feature tip an ancestor of develop and that check would otherwise fail on every ordinary group. Each use site names which of the two it is. The rest, by kind: - A dead worker's clean tree was cleaned up unconditionally, where a worker that committed its fix and then died leaves exactly that, standing over commits develop has never seen. That path now runs the no-unmerged-commit check first. - A branch carrying no claim comment yielded no file set, so a maintainer's own worktree read as holding nothing and a worker could be dispatched onto the file it was editing. The branch itself is read instead, and an unknown set collides with every group. - Two instructions could not be followed: a re-dispatch that left the old worktree holding the branch git would refuse to attach twice, and a promotion yield whose reconciliation named no actor and no timing. - The unranked-question route had an unreachable branch, resolved by deleting it rather than qualifying it, and the round's outcome list omitted the abandoned outcome the next step consumes. - drive-pr's authorization named a how-far answer a dispatched drive never gives, and local-strict-review told a seat nobody dispatched to report to its dispatcher. - AGENTS.md's "the work" bound to the run rather than to the dispatched work, which would have ended the orchestrating session at the first thing it drove. The remaining findings are filed rather than fixed, per this skill's own review-round budget: five fix rounds each raised the next round's findings, which is the churn that rule exists to stop. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A diff pass over the whole branch found three defects no whole-unit pass could see, since each spans files a unit-scoped read never holds at once. The escalation route added to pr-review-conduct was never swept onto the two surfaces a dispatched worker actually reads. A worker driving its own review loop reaches drive-pr's outcome 3 and is told to ask the maintainer directly through the runtime's own question mechanism, which it does not have, while the route that fits it is stated only in a sibling file. drive-pr's outcome bullet, its frontmatter description, and local-strict-review's disposition list now carry it, gated as pr-review-conduct gates it, on a seat that cannot reach the maintainer rather than on a seat that was dispatched, and carrying the stop that route depends on. AGENTS.md called the orchestrating session "the one exception". That forecloses drive-pr's all-the-way-to-main mode, which holds a branch and authors the work, so the rule classed it ordinary and ended it at the feature merge drive-pr step 4 performs, which is the early exit that skill exists to prevent. The qualifier is gone, and the session-scope question it exposed is filed rather than guessed at. Two fixes made in the same round were worse than what they replaced and are reverted here rather than carried: - Reading AGENTS.md's never-tier-down list as a tier floor for delegates. That rule's remedy is that the judgment does not move into a subagent at all, so a floor licenses the delegation it forbids, and the list names no tier to set one from. The gap is real, since every worker declines review findings and that judgment is on the list, and it is a design question rather than a wording one. - A sentence declaring a drive-to-promotion session one deliverable. It named the develop -> main merge as what ends that session, which drive-pr step 9 forbids that seat to perform, so it handed the session an ending it can never reach. Both are filed with the evidence that disproved them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The new backlog-burndown procedure includes internally inconsistent and unsatisfiable rules in its current form (notably around shared-file claiming and worktree retirement/resume behavior).
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Pull request overview
This PR adds a new backlog-burndown Skill that orchestrates working an entire open-issue backlog in rounds, and updates the existing orchestration Skills (drive-pr, pr-review-conduct, local-strict-review) plus the Skills distribution outputs to support dispatched-worker seats.
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- Add
backlog-burndownto the Skill source tree and propagate it to GitHub/Claude distributions. - Update
drive-pr,pr-review-conduct, andlocal-strict-reviewto explicitly cover dispatched-seat escalation and reviewer-tier naming. - Refresh canonical-review coverage ledger/report and register the new Skill in the Claude plugin manifest.
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reports/canonical-review.md |
Updated generated coverage totals and unit section “never” entries to reflect newly recorded passes. |
reports/canonical-review.json |
Added recorded-pass entries for the new/updated Skill units and other reviewed units. |
AGENTS.md |
Adds a session-scope exception for orchestration runs and maps backlog-burndown into the Skills inventory. |
.github/skills/pr-review-conduct/SKILL.md |
Seats escalation behavior for dispatched subagents that can’t reach the maintainer directly. |
.github/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md |
Clarifies that “tier this session can reach” is the tier the seat can name when dispatching a reviewer. |
.github/skills/drive-pr/SKILL.md |
Seats dispatched-drive targeting/authorization handling and ties escalation to pr-review-conduct. |
.github/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md |
New orchestrator procedure for backlog rounds, worker dispatching, file-claiming, promotion handling. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/pr-review-conduct/SKILL.md |
Generated copy of the pr-review-conduct seating update for Claude plugin distribution. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md |
Generated copy of the local-strict-review seating update for Claude plugin distribution. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/drive-pr/SKILL.md |
Generated copy of the drive-pr seating update for Claude plugin distribution. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md |
Generated copy of the new backlog-burndown Skill for Claude plugin distribution. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.source-digest |
Updated distribution digest after regenerating plugin outputs. |
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/.claude-plugin/plugin.json |
Registers backlog-burndown in the plugin’s skill list. |
.agents/skills/pr-review-conduct/SKILL.md |
Source update for dispatched-seat escalation behavior (authoritative copy). |
.agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md |
Source update for reviewer-tier naming behavior (authoritative copy). |
.agents/skills/drive-pr/SKILL.md |
Source update for dispatched-drive targeting and escalation behavior (authoritative copy). |
.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md |
New authoritative source Skill defining the backlog burndown procedure. |
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In @.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:
- Around line 391-396: Update the promotion review-loop guidance around the
worker flow so every fix merged into develop triggers a fresh review request and
review read for the promotion pull request’s new head SHA, followed by closing
all findings and re-checking the Merge Gate before reporting readiness. Apply
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.github/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md lines 391-396; regenerate both mirrors
so all copies remain synchronized.
- Around line 139-145: Update the backlog-burndown orchestration around claim
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…emote Review round 1 raised thirteen findings across three reviewers. Three were real defects in the in-flight enumeration and one sentence, and this settles them. The enumeration missed the state this skill itself produces. A worker that cannot dispatch a reviewer never pushes, and the worktree-only disposition then retires its tree and leaves the branch standing, so the branch holds commits and appears in neither `git worktree list` nor `git branch -r`. A later round reads its files as unclaimed and dispatches over them, which is the collision the section exists to prevent. A third read, plain `git branch`, covers it. The remote read fetched without pruning, so a branch deleted on the remote by another session stayed in `git branch -r` and deferred valid groups forever. The `local-strict-review` bullet attached its reason clause to the wrong half. Git refusing to attach a branch held by another worktree is why the tree is retired, not why the branch is left standing, and the branch stands for its own reason, that its commits are what the re-dispatched worker continues from. Two claims written while fixing the above were false and are corrected here rather than carried, both caught by a pass that measured the commands instead of reading them: - `git branch -r` inventories the remote, not this repository's checkouts, so a branch pushed from a standalone clone is reached by it. The gap is the unpushed one, and that is what the text now says. - A `git diff` of an unpushed branch reports committed work only, so offering it as the read that covers a claim was both false and self-cancelling, since it argued against the claim comment the sentence exists to justify. No diff of any branch reports a predicted set, which is the actual reason. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Answering Qodo's seven open findings here as well as in their threads, since an open finding carries no resolve API. Each was spot-verified against the tree rather than taken on the badge. 1. Repository boundary rule duplicated — declined. The Scope section cites 2. Local review mandate duplicated — declined. The bullet is one clause of mandate carrying a paragraph of orchestration that exists nowhere else: what the orchestrator does when a worker cannot run the pass, the worktree retired while the branch stands, a clean tree re-dispatched and a dirty one escalated. Neither 3. Model-tier criteria duplicated — accepted, filed as #1285. Correct that the bullet reproduces 4. Retired branch claims disappear — accepted, fixed in c5dfbd5. Correct, and this branch created the state: the worktree-only disposition retires a tree and leaves its branch standing, and a worker that could never dispatch a reviewer never pushed, so that branch was invisible to both 5. Worker wait remains unbounded — accepted, filed as #1278. The section cites 6. Direct commits lose closures — accepted, filed as #1276. The section body mandates reading both pull requests and commit messages on the operational model, and "Assembling the Promotion Body" implements only the pull-request hop. Your second point, that a bare 7. Stale branches retain claims — accepted, fixed in c5dfbd5. The fetch is now Of the seven: two fixed in this branch (4 and 7), two declined with the text as evidence (1 and 2), and three filed as issues (3, 5 and 6). Nothing is closed on the strength of "will fix later" without an issue number attached. |
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Several newly added prose blocks contain accidental hard-wrapping/orphaned lines and an awkwardly phrased sentence that should be reflowed for clarity and consistent rendering across the duplicated Skill distributions.
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.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:90
- The numbered-list item is hard-wrapped in a way that leaves a single-word line (
the), which reads like an accidental line break and can render as an unintended paragraph break in Markdown. Reflow this block to remove the orphaned line.
This issue also appears on line 96 of the same file.
.agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:60
- The clause "reports that rather than pushing, to whoever dispatched it" is grammatically awkward and briefly reads as though "reports" takes two objects. Reword to make the "instead of pushing" relationship unambiguous.
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:90 - The numbered-list item is hard-wrapped in a way that leaves a single-word line (
the), which reads like an accidental line break and can render as an unintended paragraph break in Markdown. Reflow this block to remove the orphaned line.
This issue also appears on line 96 of the same file.
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:60
- The clause "reports that rather than pushing, to whoever dispatched it" is grammatically awkward and briefly reads as though "reports" takes two objects. Reword to make the "instead of pushing" relationship unambiguous.
.github/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:90 - The numbered-list item is hard-wrapped in a way that leaves a single-word line (
the), which reads like an accidental line break and can render as an unintended paragraph break in Markdown. Reflow this block to remove the orphaned line.
This issue also appears on line 96 of the same file.
.github/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:60
- The clause "reports that rather than pushing, to whoever dispatched it" is grammatically awkward and briefly reads as though "reports" takes two objects. Reword to make the "instead of pushing" relationship unambiguous.
.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:98
- This paragraph split leaves the phrase "top of" dangling at the end of a line, which looks like an unintentional wrap and hurts readability. Reflow so "top of it" stays together.
repository does carry one, that label is the first input and these criteria order what it leaves
tied. Write the ranking, and the reason for the top of
it, into the report this skill makes at each round boundary, per "Ending the Run".
.github/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:98
- This paragraph split leaves the phrase "top of" dangling at the end of a line, which looks like an unintentional wrap and hurts readability. Reflow so "top of it" stays together.
repository does carry one, that label is the first input and these criteria order what it leaves
tied. Write the ranking, and the reason for the top of
it, into the report this skill makes at each round boundary, per "Ending the Run".
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:98
- This paragraph split leaves the phrase "top of" dangling at the end of a line, which looks like an unintentional wrap and hurts readability. Reflow so "top of it" stays together.
repository does carry one, that label is the first input and these criteria order what it leaves
tied. Write the ranking, and the reason for the top of
it, into the report this skill makes at each round boundary, per "Ending the Run".
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- Around line 150-155: Update the claim-verification flow around git fetch
--prune origin to require a successful fetch before reading remote-tracking
branches with git branch -r. If the fetch fails, record the error and stop or
escalate before dispatching work; do not continue scanning cached remote refs.
- Around line 221-225: Update the redispatch and standalone-clone retirement
flow around “Cleanup Is the Orchestrator's” to preserve unpushed branches and
commits before retiring a clone. Keep the group blocked until the original clone
can resume, or implement an explicit handoff that transfers the commits and
still enforces local-strict-review; do not redispatch to a new seat while those
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Review round 2 raised no new comments and nine suppressed low-confidence findings. One was real and the rest were cosmetic, and this settles both kinds. The real one is in carried content every fleet repository reads. A seat that cannot dispatch a reviewer "reports that rather than pushing, to whoever dispatched it", which places the comma so that "reports" appears to take two objects. It now says what could not be done, explicitly, so the fronted clause has nothing to bind to: Instead of pushing, it reports that it could not run the pass, to whoever dispatched it, or to the maintainer where nobody did. The first attempt at this said only "it could not", which a pass then read as "could not push", the opposite of the meaning. Naming the pass is what settles it. The rest were single-word lines left by earlier scripted edits, in "The Round" step 8 and the "Ranking" opening. Reflowed, with the edit refusing to apply if the word sequence changed, and a pass confirmed both units word-for-word identical. The reviewer's stated reason for those is declined rather than accepted: a single newline is a soft break in Markdown and does not render as a paragraph break. The wrap was worth tidying because a scripted edit left it, not because it rendered wrongly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Answering round 2's nine suppressed findings here, since a suppressed finding opens no thread to resolve. They reduce to two distinct findings, each repeated across the source and its two generated mirrors. "reports that rather than pushing, to whoever dispatched it" reads as though Right, and it is carried content every fleet repository reads, so it was worth settling rather than deferring. The comma placement did make the addressee look like a second object of
Worth recording that the first attempt at this fix was worse than the original. It read "it reports that it could not", and a review pass then found the fronted "Instead of pushing" pulled the antecedent toward could not push, which is the opposite of the meaning. Naming the pass explicitly is what closes it. "a single-word line ... can render as an unintended paragraph break in Markdown" — the finding is accepted, its stated reason is declined. The reason is false. In CommonMark a single newline inside a paragraph is a soft break, not a paragraph break; only a blank line starts a new paragraph. An orphaned one-word line renders identically to the same words wrapped differently, and The underlying observation is still correct and the lines are reflowed in 50966d9, for a different reason: those wraps were artifacts of scripted edits rather than anything deliberate, and a single-word line reads as a mistake to a human even though the renderer does not care. The reflow changed no words. The edit script asserted the whitespace-normalized word sequence was identical and would have refused otherwise, and a review pass independently confirmed both units word-for-word unchanged with list numbering, continuation indentation, and blank lines intact. Two of the nine are the generated Of the nine: one real and fixed, six cosmetic and reflowed with the stated rationale declined, two mirror duplicates. |
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🔵 Needs a closer look
It introduces and re-seats multi-skill orchestration procedures that affect cross-seat authorization/escalation behavior and warrants final maintainer review for operational correctness.
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In @.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md:
- Around line 87-89: Clarify the deferred-issue transition in the
backlog-burndown guidance by replacing the ambiguous phrase near the ranking
transition with explicit wording identifying issues filed for deferred findings.
Apply the identical wording change at .agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md
lines 87-89, .claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md lines
87-89, and .github/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md lines 87-89.
- Around line 93-95: Define explicit priority-label precedence in the ranking
contract: use the repository priority label when present, otherwise fall back to
the hub label; when both exist and conflict, the repository label wins before
applying the stated criteria. Apply the same wording and behavior at
.agents/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md lines 93-95,
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md lines 93-95, and
.github/skills/backlog-burndown/SKILL.md lines 93-95.
In @.agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:
- Line 60: Update the unnamed dispatch fallback in the local-strict-review
instructions to require the strongest reachable tier; if it cannot be selected
or the pass cannot be dispatched, stop and report that the required pass could
not run rather than using a weaker tier or silently skipping it. Apply this
change at .agents/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:60,
.claude-plugin/fleet-skills/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:60, and
.github/skills/local-strict-review/SKILL.md:60; each site requires the same
direct change.
In `@reports/canonical-review.json`:
- Around line 86-90: Regenerate the canonical review records so all recorded
digests match their final sections, and update hubCommit to include both backlog
sections and the corrected content for the other sections.
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…Than Losing It Review round 3 raised two findings, both against text the previous round added, and both are real. A failed `git fetch --prune origin` did not stop the claim scan. The remote-tracking refs still resolve from what the last successful fetch left, so `git branch -r` returns a confident answer about a remote it never reached, missing a branch pushed since and keeping one deleted since. Verified in a throwaway repository rather than reasoned about: a fetch failing against an unreachable remote leaves both errors exactly as described. The round now stops and reports there. The retire-and-re-dispatch disposition presumed the branch is reachable from this repository, which `repo-worktree`'s standalone-clone fallback breaks. A worker that never pushed holds its commits only in that clone, so this repository has no ref to hand a replacement and nothing to retire, and re-dispatching loses the work rather than continuing it. That group now stops for the maintainer with the clone named. Three corrections to those two fixes, each caught before merge: - The failed-fetch stop first cited AGENTS.md's execution-boundary label, whose remedy there is an approval-mediated rerun rather than a stop, and bounded itself to dispatch while cleanup and promotion read the same remote. It stops the round now, and says why those steps need the same. - The standalone-clone stop first said the group "resumes only from the clone that holds it", which named no seat that can act and contradicted the rule two bullets above that no worker inherits another's checkout. It now says no seat this skill defines resumes it, and why. - "All of that presumes the branch is reachable" reached all three dispositions where only one presumes it, so it re-routed a dirty tree the preceding sentence had left exactly as it stands. It names the one case now. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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🔵 Needs a closer look
It introduces a large new orchestration procedure plus cross-skill behavioral changes (dispatch/escalation semantics) that warrant final human review despite minimal inline nits.
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…Orchestration (#1304) One commit, one deliverable: the `backlog-burndown` Skill and the seating three sibling skills needed for it to work. It was driven as its own feature pull request into `develop` (#1291), reviewed by the PR-hosted reviewers, and merged with CI green and every finding disposed of by one of three routes: fixed, declined on evidence, or deferred behind a filed issue. ## What this promotes **The `backlog-burndown` Skill** (#1291). Working one issue is `drive-pr`'s job. Working a whole backlog is a different problem, and nothing packaged it: parallelism is bounded by file overlap rather than by agent count, the backlog changes every round as reviews file deferral issues, and a prose-heavy repository conflicts on content rather than on syntax. The skill ranks the open issues, groups them so no file is claimed twice, verifies each claim against everything in flight before dispatching, runs at most four workers that each drive their own feature -> develop pull request, opens at most one develop -> main promotion pull request per round for the maintainer to merge, and re-ranks from scratch. It performs no edit of its own and never merges `main`. **Seating in the three skills it drives.** `drive-pr` gains the rule that a dispatched drive takes its target from the brief rather than asking, and that a brief is never itself an authorization. `pr-review-conduct` gains the escalation route for an agent that cannot reach the maintainer. `local-strict-review` states that the reviewer's tier is the one the dispatch can name rather than the one a down-tiered worker runs on. `AGENTS.md` carries the map entry and one Session Scope exception, since a run outlives the single deliverable a session normally covers. ## What this lands with, stated rather than deferred quietly This promotes a known defect list rather than a clean one, which #1291 said explicitly at its own merge. Sixteen review rounds ran over that branch. The later ones hit the churn the new skill's own "Bounding a Prose Group" section describes, where a finding is introduced by the previous round's fix, and the rule it states for that case is to land what is correct and file the remainder. Two rounds' fixes were themselves worse than what they replaced and were reverted there, with the evidence that disproved them filed. Thirty-one issues stand open against this content: #1272 through #1290 filed during the review, and #1293 through #1303 filed after the body above was written. Two are design calls rather than wording and are worth reading before merging this: - **#1290**, the sharpest. The skill's central rule is that no file is claimed by two live groups at once, and in this repository that rule is unsatisfiable, because every canonical-content worker writes `reports/canonical-review.md` and its global counts merge cleanly to a wrong value. - **#1285**, that every worker holds a judgment `AGENTS.md` says never to tier down, since a worker declines review findings by construction. Nothing carries this skill yet, and the remaining defects are contradictions in a procedure document rather than anything executable, which is why filing them beat holding the change. ## Verification Gates run on this merged tree rather than only per pull request: | Gate | Result | | --- | --- | | `unittest discover -s scripts/tests` | 1051 tests, OK | | `scripts/prose_lint.py` | 298 files, clean | | `spec/validate.py` | 22 repos classify cleanly | | `scripts/repo_gate.py --check eol` | 0 issues | | `scripts/repo_gate.py --check eol-coverage` | 0 issues | | `spec/audit.py --selftest` | PASS | | `scripts/build_dist.py --check` | generated distributions current | | `scripts/canonical_review.py check` | no uncovered unit | `spec/audit.py ProjectTemplate` and `repo-config/configure.sh check` were also run live, since CI never runs either. Both report the same single settings finding, `has_projects` live `true` against an expected `false`, plus three README reference findings. All four are pre-existing on `main` and untouched by this promotion, which changes no file under `repo-config/` or `registry/`. The `has_projects` state may well be deliberate given #1292, so it is surfaced here rather than filed as drift. ## Issues closed None. #1291 added new content rather than settling a tracked issue, and the issues that surround it are the ones its own review filed. 🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) https://claude.ai/code/session_01HDDDmExAUoCdhbhKBHZwEe <!-- This is an auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai --> ## Summary by CodeRabbit - **New Features** - Added a backlog-burndown workflow for ranking issues, coordinating parallel work, managing pull requests, and preparing promotions. - Added the new workflow to the skills plugin. - **Documentation** - Clarified authorization, escalation, review, promotion, and maintainer-approval procedures. - Documented how dispatched work handles blocked decisions and unavailable reviewers. - **Reports** - Updated review records and coverage reporting to include the new and revised guidance. <!-- end of auto-generated comment: release notes by coderabbit.ai -->
Working one issue is
drive-pr's job. Working a whole backlog is a different problem, and nothing packaged it: parallelism is bounded by file overlap rather than by agent count, the backlog changes every round as reviews file deferral issues, and a prose-heavy repository conflicts on content rather than on syntax, so two agents rewording one section produce a conflict no tool resolves.What this adds
backlog-burndownis the orchestrator's procedure. It ranks the open issues, groups them so no file is claimed twice, verifies each claim against everything in flight before dispatching, runs at most four workers that each drive their own feature -> develop pull request, opens at most one develop -> main promotion pull request per round for the maintainer to merge, and re-ranks from scratch. It performs no edit of its own and never mergesmain.Seating it in the skills it drives
Three sibling skills needed seating for a dispatched seat to follow them:
drive-pr: a dispatched drive takes its target from the brief rather than asking, and a brief is never itself an authorization, which binds the dispatching seat rather than asking a worker to verify a grant it cannot verify.pr-review-conduct: an agent that cannot reach the maintainer escalates to whoever dispatched it, and the dispatcher asks at the point that work stopped rather than holding the question.local-strict-review: the reviewer's tier is the one the dispatch can name rather than the one a down-tiered worker runs on, with the headless route named for a seat that cannot dispatch at all.AGENTS.mdcarries the map entry and one Session Scope exception, since a run outlives the single deliverable a session normally covers.Two destructive defects the review rounds caught
The closing-issue derivation would have deleted the backlog it exists to work. It read the issues each feature pull request's body referenced, and a body routinely references the deferral issues its own review round filed, which have to stay open as the next round's ranking input. Feature pull requests now carry an explicit
Closes on promotion:line naming only what they fix, the worker brief requires it, and the promotion body reads that line and never the mentions.The dead-worker worktree takeover was self-refuting. It said no read distinguishes a dead worker from a slow one, then handed that worktree to a replacement told to commit in it, which is two live tasks in one tree whenever the first was merely slow. Liveness now comes from the dispatch mechanism, a clean tree is retired and its issue re-ranked, and a dirty one is left untouched for the maintainer.
What this lands with, and what it does not
Sixteen review rounds ran over this branch: diff passes over the whole change, and whole-unit
carried-content passes over each of the 25 canonical units it moves. The early rounds settled
every finding they raised. The later ones hit the churn
backlog-burndown's own "Bounding a ProseGroup" describes, where "a whole-unit prose review can run many rounds where a finding was
introduced by the previous round's fix", and the rule it states for that case is to "land what is
correct and file the remainder rather than churning". Two rounds' fixes were themselves worse than
what they replaced and are reverted here, with the evidence that disproved them filed.
So this lands with a known defect list rather than clean. What it fixes is every finding this
branch introduced or made worse, and the root causes running through them: retiring a worktree and
deleting its branch were treated as one disposition with one test, and an escalation route added
to
pr-review-conductwas never swept onto the surfaces a dispatched worker reads. What it defersis nineteen filed issues, #1272 through #1290.
Two of those are worth reading before the promotion, since they are design calls rather than
wording:
at once, and in this repository that rule is unsatisfiable, because every canonical-content
worker writes
reports/canonical-review.mdand its global counts merge cleanly to a wrongvalue, failing
report --checkon a later unrelated pull request.AGENTS.mdsays never to tier down, since aworker declines review findings by construction.
Nothing carries this skill yet, and the remaining defects are contradictions in a procedure
document rather than anything executable, which is why filing them beat holding the change.
Verification
Gates green:
build_dist.py --check,prose_lint.py,spec/validate.py,repo_gate3/3,test_build_dist28,test_host_gate83,canonical_review.py check21/21 covered. Local strict review recorded against the branch's full diff, and all 22 changed carried canonicalunits covered by a recorded pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com
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