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