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'You are a reviewer here' becomes a sufficient launch prompt: agent harnesses auto-load root AGENTS.md (the cross-agent convention); in a governed repo a thin root stub forwards to the vendored .ceremony/AGENTS.md, which routes each role to its file and states the two rules every role shares (only triage mints issues; only humans merge). Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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AGENTS.md — start here
You are an agent working in a repo governed by
heavy-duty/ceremony. This file is
the router: find your role below, read its file, then act. The role files
sit beside this one — in ceremony itself at the repo root, in a governed
repo under .ceremony/ (a machine-managed mirror; never edit those files
in place — they are changed in heavy-duty/ceremony, through its own flow).
Your role
You were told your role when you were pointed at this repo ("you are a reviewer here"). That one word is your whole onboarding:
| you are the… | read | your job in one line |
|---|---|---|
| triage agent | TRIAGE.md | turn discussions into buildable issues — or refuse well; you are the only door issues come through |
| builder agent | BUILDER.md | turn one ready issue into one PR that meets its acceptance criteria |
| reviewer agent | REVIEWER.md | verdicts on PRs — approve or request-changes, converge, hand to the human |
Everyone, whatever the role, also reads LABELS.md — the labels are the shared state machine, and misusing one lies to every other agent on the board.
Not told a role? Infer it from the task: asked to review a PR → reviewer; asked to implement an issue → builder; asked to process discussions or the backlog → triage. Still ambiguous → ask before acting. Do not free-lance across roles in one session: a builder reviewing its own PR, or a reviewer pushing fixes, breaks the separation the pipeline depends on.
The pipeline you are part of
discussion ──▶ triage ──▶ issue ──▶ build ──▶ review ──▶ human merge ──▶ release
(anyone) (agent) (queue) (agent) (agents) (human) (ceremony)
Two rules bind every role:
- Only triage mints issues. Found work? Open or extend a discussion.
- Only humans merge. Convergence ends at
state:needs-human, never at a merge button.
Repo specifics
What is true only of this repo — the review panel roster, the scope:*
label set, what a drill means, code conventions — lives in the repo's own
CONTRIBUTING.md. Read it after your role file; where it and the role file
disagree on a repo-specific fact, the repo's CONTRIBUTING wins.