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Round 1 review (claude-bot, codex-bot — both raised 1 and 2). 1. `gh issue edit --add-label` rejects the WHOLE call on one unknown label name, and the blocker:* labels are created only by the dispatch-only bootstrap. So the first sweep after this lands would have converged NOTHING on exactly the PRs this change exists to heal, surfacing only as a WARNING in a cron log. Batching state and blockers into one edit for anti-flicker is what widened that blast radius. Every label about to be ADDED is now filtered against the repo's real label set, read once per sweep; removals need no filter because they are built from has_label. An unreadable label set does not filter, so a failed read cannot silently strip the board. 2. blocker:unrequested fired only on MISSING, so a round whose approvals all staled behind a push — with nothing re-requested — carried no blocker at all, though the agent owes exactly the same ask. Now MISSING or STALE: both mean this head has no verdict from that reviewer. 3. LABELS.md: restore the substantive "Leaves when" text for state:addressing, and widen the blocker:unrequested row to name both shapes now that (2) changes what the label means. Fixtures 66 -> 68. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# Labels
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How this repo uses GitHub labels. The taxonomy is shared across the
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heavy-duty repos (box, rig, cast) — only the `scope:` set differs per repo,
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because it names this repo's actual surfaces.
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## State — who is the ball with? (PRs, exactly one)
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Every open PR carries exactly one `state:` label, and it answers the only
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question a board scan actually asks: *who is this PR waiting on?* The states
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mirror the review loop this repo runs — PRs open as drafts, three reviewer
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bots pick up ready PRs with reviews requested, each round is answered in a
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single reply, and a human takes the final review.
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| Label | Color | Waiting on | Enters when | Leaves when |
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| `state:building` | `#FBCA04` | the coding agent, still building | PR opened as draft | marked ready + bot reviews requested |
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| `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 |
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| `state:addressing` | `#D93F0B` | the coding agent to reply, fix, or ask | all bots reviewed and not all approved; or nobody was asked; or a blocker is up | the round-reply is posted and fixes pushed — and any blocker named alongside is cleared |
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| `state:needs-human` | `#8250DF` | the human reviewer | the PR **could be merged right now**: no blockers, three formal head-current approvals — and the human review is requested | merged — or changes requested, which cycles back to `state:addressing` |
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`bots-reviewing` and `addressing` are deliberately distinct: staleness in the
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first means *poke the bots*, staleness in the second means *the agent dropped
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the ball*. Collapsing them loses exactly the information a sweep needs.
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`bots-reviewing` therefore means strictly *a request is live and an answer is
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coming* — a PR nobody was asked to review is the agent's ball, not the bots'.
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## The second axis: `blocker:*`
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State answers *whose ball is it*. Blockers answer *what is in the way*, and
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unlike states they are *facts about the branch* — mutually independent, so a
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PR carries as many as apply.
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| Label | Color | Means | Clears when |
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| `blocker:conflict` | `#B60205` | GitHub says `CONFLICTING` — the agent owes a **rebase** | it merges cleanly |
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| `blocker:ci-red` | `#B60205` | a check failed — the agent owes a **fix**, which a rebase will not provide | checks are green |
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| `blocker:unrequested` | `#E99695` | this head has no verdict from somebody — never reviewed, or staled by a push — and **nobody was asked** for one | reviews are requested |
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One rule joins the axes: **`state:needs-human` requires zero blockers.** Any
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blocker means the work is the agent's, whatever the review round says.
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This split exists because the single-label version kept lying. Independent
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facts were projected onto one totally-ordered label, so one always had to win
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and the losers vanished off the board: a PR that was *both* conflicted and red
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could only say one of them, and `needs-rebase` told an agent to rebase when
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what it actually owed was a bug fix. Precedence between two blockers is not a
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question a set has to answer, which is why every ordering bug this machine has
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had — `needs-human` surviving a conflict, `MISSING` swallowing `STALE` — lived
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on the axis that had to be totally ordered.
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`state:needs-rebase` was the first attempt at this and is **retired**; the
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reconciler strips it on sight so no PR is left carrying a label nothing
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recomputes.
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**`state:needs-human` means one thing: a human could merge this right now.**
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The label is the only signal a maintainer scanning the board (or a phone)
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actually reads, and one that says "your turn" on an unmergeable PR is worse
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than no label at all. So beyond the blockers, one review fact also outranks an
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explicit human request:
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- **nobody reviewed *this* head** — every approval staled by a push → `state:addressing`,
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because the agent owes a re-request
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That case is more dangerous than any blocker: a blocked PR at least shows an X
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or a disabled merge button, while a staled-approval PR reads green, mergeable
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and "waiting on the human" over code no reviewer has seen.
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`UNKNOWN` mergeability is deliberately **not** treated as a conflict. GitHub
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reports it for about a minute after every merge while it recomputes, and
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flapping every open PR through `blocker:conflict` on each merge would be worse
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than the bug this fixes. A failed read of either branch fact degrades to the
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same "do not know" value, for the same reason.
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An *unfinished* round still yields to an explicit human request — a maintainer
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pulling a PR to themselves early is a deliberate act. `MISSING` (nobody has
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reviewed yet) and `STALE` (everyone reviewed something else) are different
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facts and are treated differently.
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## Cross-cutting (PRs and issues)
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| Label | Color | Meaning |
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| `stale` | `#B60205` | No activity for 48h. Sweep-managed, never hand-applied. `state:building` + `stale` is precisely a forgotten draft. |
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| `blocked` | `#6A737D` | Waiting on another PR or issue to land first. Quiet *legitimately* — the staleness sweep skips it. |
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| `release` | `#0E8A16` | Release flow, versioning, and packaging work. |
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| `merge-next` | `#0E8A16` | Head of the merge queue — **merge this one next**. Queue order is *intent* (which PR lands first, given how they conflict), so the reconciler never sets it: you or the agent maintaining the queue do. The reconciler only **clears** it, the moment the PR stops being something a human could merge — so it cannot go stale the way `state:needs-human` did. |
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## Scope — which surface? (PRs and issues, any number)
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All scopes share one calm color, `#C5DEF5` — scopes locate, states alert.
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| Label | Covers |
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| `scope:bootstrap` | `commands/bootstrap.sh` — hardening a pristine server into a node |
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| `scope:users` | `commands/users-*` — the root-door model, apply/status, close-root |
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| `scope:runner` | `commands/runner-*` — GitHub runner install/remove/repoint/status |
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| `scope:coolify` | `commands/coolify-*` — Coolify and its backup install |
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| `scope:db` | `commands/db.sh` — dump/restore and the round-trip proof |
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| `scope:installer` | `install.sh` — how rig itself lands on a machine |
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## Issue types
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`bug`, `enhancement`, `documentation` — issues only. PRs carry their type in
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the conventional title (`feat:`, `fix:`, `docs:`), so typing a PR with a label
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would just say the same thing twice, drifting apart eventually.
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## Maintenance
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State labels are written by automation, never by hand. Every state above is
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derivable from GitHub's own facts — the draft flag, requested reviewers,
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review states, push timestamps — so the labels workflow
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([.github/workflows/labels.yml](.github/workflows/labels.yml)) recomputes the
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state and reconciles labels statelessly, on a 15-minute cron plus PR events.
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A hand-moved label is a lie waiting to happen; the workflow asserts the
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effective state instead. `scope:` labels on PRs are applied from the changed
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paths by actions/labeler ([.github/labeler.yml](.github/labeler.yml));
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[CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) says who sets what.
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The same workflow bootstraps the taxonomy: a manual dispatch creates any
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missing label idempotently. To create them by hand (needs push access):
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```sh
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gh label create "state:building" --color FBCA04 --description "PR is a draft — the coding agent is still building" --force
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gh label create "state:bots-reviewing" --color 1D76DB --description "Waiting on the bot reviewers to finish the round" --force
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gh label create "state:addressing" --color D93F0B --description "All bots reviewed — coding agent owes the single reply + fixes" --force
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gh label create "blocker:conflict" --color B60205 --description "Does not merge — the branch conflicts and the agent owes a rebase" --force
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gh label create "blocker:ci-red" --color B60205 --description "A check is failing — the agent owes a fix (not a rebase)" --force
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gh label create "blocker:unrequested" --color E99695 --description "Somebody still owes a verdict and nobody was asked for one" --force
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# retired — the reconciler strips it; delete it once no PR carries it
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# gh label delete "state:needs-rebase"
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gh label create "state:needs-human" --color 8250DF --description "No blockers, all bots approve — waiting on the human reviewer" --force
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gh label create "merge-next" --color 0E8A16 --description "Head of the merge queue — merge this one next (set by hand/agent, cleared here)" --force
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gh label create "stale" --color B60205 --description "No activity for 48h — needs a poke (sweep-managed)" --force
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gh label create "blocked" --color 6A737D --description "Waiting on another PR or issue to land first" --force
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gh label create "release" --color 0E8A16 --description "Release flow and version/packaging work" --force
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gh label create "scope:bootstrap" --color C5DEF5 --description "bootstrap — hardening a pristine server into a node" --force
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gh label create "scope:users" --color C5DEF5 --description "users-* — root-door model, apply/status, close-root" --force
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gh label create "scope:runner" --color C5DEF5 --description "runner-* — GitHub runner lifecycle" --force
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gh label create "scope:coolify" --color C5DEF5 --description "coolify-* — Coolify and backup install" --force
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gh label create "scope:db" --color C5DEF5 --description "db.sh — dump/restore" --force
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gh label create "scope:installer" --color C5DEF5 --description "install.sh — how rig lands on a machine" --force
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# delete is not an upsert: a label that is already gone exits non-zero. Swallow
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# that, so this block converges on re-run instead of erroring after first success.
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for L in duplicate invalid question wontfix "help wanted" "good first issue"; do
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gh label delete "$L" --yes 2>/dev/null || true
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done
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```
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