The machinery LABELS.md promised. labels.yml runs the reconciler on a
15-minute cron plus PR events (pull_request_target — every PR here is from a
fork, where pull_request gets a read-only token; no PR code is ever checked
out). The script derives each open PR's state:* from GitHub's own facts and
converges labels statelessly; stale is judged from real activity (commits,
comments, reviews), never label churn, so the sweep cannot un-stale its own
mark. actions/labeler applies scope:* from changed paths. CONTRIBUTING.md is
the guideline: the PR loop, and who sets which labels. Rehearsed with
DRY_RUN=1 against the live repo; shellcheck-clean.
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All three bot reviewers flagged it: gh label delete is not an upsert, so a
second run of the safe-to-run block errored on the trim lines. Loop + '|| true'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Documents the shared heavy-duty label design at the root: state labels
that answer 'who is the ball with' across the bot-review loop, sweep-managed
stale + blocked, rig's scope set, and the bootstrap block. State labels are
automation-owned; the reconciler workflow is a follow-up.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
