Triage

Triage inline, no agents

Section 1 of the method. Sort the backlog yourself into three tiers and do tier 0 by hand.

Read the open issues once, yourself. Sort each into a tier and do the cheap ones by hand.

Tier	What
0	docs, tests only, config, CI files, README sweeps
1	a feature inside one module, additive
2	core, auth, tenancy, data shape, anything reachable without a login

Close duplicates and anything already solved by other means while you are in there. Do not file follow-ups. A review finding is fixed in the change or dropped. When one is real and cannot be fixed in the change, it goes on the checklist of the open issue that already owns that area, as section 0 says, never into a new issue of its own. A backlog that grows while you work is the failure this whole method exists to prevent.

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