box/LABELS.md

Labels

How this repo uses GitHub labels. The taxonomy is shared across the heavy-duty repos (box, rig, cast) — only the scope: set differs per repo, because it names this repo's actual surfaces.

State — who is the ball with? (PRs, exactly one)

Every open PR carries exactly one state: label, and it answers the only question a board scan actually asks: who is this PR waiting on? The states mirror the review loop this repo runs — PRs open as drafts, three reviewer bots pick up ready PRs with reviews requested, each round is answered in a single reply, and a human takes the final review.

Label	Color	Waiting on	Enters when	Leaves when
state:building	#FBCA04	the coding agent, still building	PR opened as draft	marked ready + bot reviews requested
state:bots-reviewing	#1D76DB	the reviewer bots to finish the round	ready with reviews requested, or fixes pushed and reviews re-requested	all three bots have reviewed the round
state:addressing	#D93F0B	the coding agent to reply and push fixes	all bots reviewed the round, not all approved	the single round-reply is posted and fixes pushed
state:needs-human	#8250DF	the human reviewer	all three bots approve	merged — or changes requested, which cycles back to state:addressing

bots-reviewing and addressing are deliberately distinct: staleness in the first means poke the bots, staleness in the second means the agent dropped the ball. Collapsing them loses exactly the information a sweep needs.

Cross-cutting (PRs and issues)

Label	Color	Meaning
stale	#B60205	No activity for 48h. Sweep-managed, never hand-applied. state:building + stale is precisely a forgotten draft.
blocked	#6A737D	Waiting on another PR or issue to land first. Quiet legitimately — the staleness sweep skips it.
release	#0E8A16	Release flow, versioning, and packaging work.

Scope — which surface? (PRs and issues, any number)

All scopes share one calm color, #C5DEF5 — scopes locate, states alert.

Label	Covers
scope:cli	bin/box — the command surface itself
scope:installer	install.sh, the versioned install layout, upgrade/uninstall
scope:host	host/ — setup-host, teardown, the firewall and isolation stack
scope:tiers	the restricted tier — grant/revoke, multi-user semantics
scope:templates	templates/ — the box seeds
scope:drill	drill/ — the rehearsals, doctor, RUNS.md

Issue types

bug, enhancement, documentation — issues only. PRs carry their type in the conventional title (feat:, fix:, docs:), so typing a PR with a label would just say the same thing twice, drifting apart eventually.

Maintenance

State labels are written by automation, never by hand. Every state above is derivable from GitHub's own facts — the draft flag, requested reviewers, review states, push timestamps — so a scheduled workflow recomputes the state and reconciles labels statelessly. A hand-moved label is a lie waiting to happen; the workflow asserts the effective state instead. Until that workflow lands, treat state: labels as advisory.

The same workflow bootstraps the taxonomy: it creates any missing label idempotently. To create them by hand (needs push access):

gh label create "state:building"       --color FBCA04 --description "PR is a draft — the coding agent is still building" --force
gh label create "state:bots-reviewing" --color 1D76DB --description "Waiting on the bot reviewers to finish the round" --force
gh label create "state:addressing"     --color D93F0B --description "All bots reviewed — coding agent owes the single reply + fixes" --force
gh label create "state:needs-human"    --color 8250DF --description "All bots approve — waiting on the human reviewer" --force
gh label create "stale"                --color B60205 --description "No activity for 48h — needs a poke (sweep-managed)" --force
gh label create "blocked"              --color 6A737D --description "Waiting on another PR or issue to land first" --force
gh label create "release"              --color 0E8A16 --description "Release flow and version/packaging work" --force
gh label create "scope:cli"            --color C5DEF5 --description "bin/box — the command surface" --force
gh label create "scope:installer"      --color C5DEF5 --description "install.sh, versioned installs, upgrade/uninstall" --force
gh label create "scope:host"           --color C5DEF5 --description "host/ — setup, teardown, firewall, isolation stack" --force
gh label create "scope:tiers"          --color C5DEF5 --description "restricted tier — grant/revoke, multi-user" --force
gh label create "scope:templates"      --color C5DEF5 --description "templates/ — the box seeds" --force
gh label create "scope:drill"          --color C5DEF5 --description "drill/ — rehearsals, doctor, RUNS.md" --force
gh label delete duplicate --yes; gh label delete invalid --yes; gh label delete question --yes
gh label delete wontfix --yes; gh label delete "help wanted" --yes; gh label delete "good first issue" --yes