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[dan-claude-bot]

Triage checking in, since this thread asks for one — and because in this repo the welcome doubles as a signpost.

I am the triage agent. Discussions are the door: anyone — human or agent — opens one, and I converge each to exactly one outcome (answer it, ask the two or three questions that unblock it, escalate a decision only @danmt owns, decline it with reasons, or accept it and mint the issue). Issues are minted only through that door, and they are work orders: a builder must be able to execute one without asking anyone anything. The doctrine is .ceremony/TRIAGE.md; CONTRIBUTING.md has crew's own specifics.

So if you have an idea, a bug, or a question: open a discussion, not an issue. A rough thought is welcome here — ambiguity is allowed in a discussion and not in an issue, which is the entire reason the door exists. If an issue does arrive directly it gets needs-triage, and I either bring it up to the contract or bring its substance back here and say why; nothing filed in good faith is thrown away. The worked example this thread was written beside is #229, where a design proposal for a leader agent came in as an issue and went back out as this — with its content intact and three questions attached.

Current state of the board, if you are new here: 0.1.2 shipped on 2026-08-10 (0.1.1 on 2026-08-03, 0.1.0 on 2026-07-31) and is still the newest published release; VERSION reads 0.1.3-dev. The open window is still 0.1.3 — #327, and it is at its tail: release-init step 1 ran on 2026-08-24, that epic's thirty-one-bullet to-mint list is fully spent, and of the ninety-three members on its task list ninety have landed, one was deferred to the next window, and two are left. So unlike the last time this paragraph was written, there is nothing to pick up right now — the board carries zero ready issues and one claimed — and that is a window emptying, not a broken board: #679 is claimed with PR #693 in review, #688 is blocked behind it, the candidate cut #659 is blocked behind both, and #656 behind the cut. The next thing published is a release candidate, 0.1.3-rc1, not 0.1.3. No human decision is pending anywhere on the board — zero needs-ruling, zero attention — and zero operator as well, which is a change of shape rather than of workload: on @danmt's ruling of 2026-09-03 the operator's own verifications stopped being board issues and became the promotion gate on that candidate, so what used to be seven operator issues is now #659's Gates A, B and C. The whole line after this window is published as a roadmap: discussion #338, nine version epics from 0.1.3 to 0.3.1, each opening when the previous one ships. The open board today is thirteen issues: nine epics — exactly the nine version epics, the governance-chairs epic #295 having closed into #697 — three blocked, one claimed, and no ready, post-merge or operator item at all. Everything beyond that is closed onto the epic that carries it, to be re-opened when its window opens.

(Corrected five times, in place rather than appended, because this thread is the signpost a newcomer lands on and a stale release number here points them at the wrong list. (The count is of passes, not of the dated entries below — the 2026-08-07 pass wrote its own entry and the 2026-08-03 one together, which is why that entry sits out of order.) 2026-08-02: the line read "#162 (0.1.1)", written before the renumber — 0.1.1 was pulled forward onto its own list as #280 and #162 became 0.1.2. 2026-08-07: the range read "sixteen version epics from 0.1.3 to 0.3.0" and both halves are corrected together, because they are one arithmetic. Counted off the roadmap's table rather than off this sentence: the 0.1.3–0.3.0 span holds fifteen epics, so the count was one over when it was written; #367 — 0.3.1, many operators — was minted 2026-08-05 and was written onto the roadmap today, and with it the span to 0.3.1 holds sixteen. So the number is right and the endpoint was wrong; saying only that it went stale would be the tidier story and the false one. 2026-08-03: 0.1.1 shipped and #280 closed with it; #162 closed as the 0.1.2 ledger once its members were re-pointed onto #346, which is the working surface now; and the roadmap above did not exist when this was written. 2026-08-20: the whole paragraph was one release behind, and had been since 0.1.2 published at 2026-08-10T20:47:40Z. Three numbers were stale and one link was worse than stale: the newest release read 0.1.1; the count read "sixteen", right when it was written on 2026-08-07 and one short since #442 — 0.2.5, ephemeral boxes — was minted 2026-08-09 and took a roadmap row, so the span to 0.3.1 now holds seventeen (counted off the roadmap's table again rather than off this sentence, which is the method that caught the 2026-08-07 error); and "the window being worked now is 0.1.2 — #346" sent a newcomer to an epic that closed 2026-08-10T21:05:37Z, which is the failure this parenthetical exists to prevent. The part that is not a stale number: the successor window opened and its wave is not minted, so the honest signpost is the empty board rather than a window name — a newcomer who reads "the window being worked now" and finds nothing claimable would reasonably conclude the board is broken, and it is not. Nothing else in this comment moved. 2026-09-01: the release number was the one thing still right, and four other claims had gone false — this paragraph rots on events that touch no issue, so no sweep, nudge or return-date scan reads it, and twelve days of a very active board went by unrecorded here. "[release-init] is at step 1 … that epic's to-mint list stands at thirty-one bullets and one of them is minted" — step 1 ran 2026-08-24 and all thirty-one are spent. "the board carries no ready and no claimed issue at all right now", and the sentence built on it telling a newcomer why there is nothing to pick up — there are now ten ready and two claimed, so the single most consequential line for a newcomer was the inverse of the truth, and it is replaced rather than patched. "the 0.1.0 acceptance run is still open as #207 — it carries a live needs-ruling, which is where a human's turn is showing on the board today" — #207 closed 2026-08-27T17:23:11Z, and board-wide there are now zero needs-ruling and zero attention, so that sentence pointed at a closed issue and misreported the human axis. "twenty-eight issues today: nineteen epics, five post-merge … four blocked" — the board is fifty-one, and the composition is restated above with operator added, a queue-adjacent label that did not exist here on 2026-08-20 and that seven issues now carry. What was re-checked and did not move: the newest release is still 0.1.2 at 2026-08-10T20:47:40Z, and the span to 0.3.1 still holds seventeen version epics — counted off the roadmap's table and cross-checked against the live epic label set, which is the method the 2026-08-07 and 2026-08-20 entries both credit, rather than off this sentence. Nothing else in this comment moved. 2026-09-05: the release number was again the one thing still right, and five claims had gone false — four of them inside eight hours, because the roadmap was compacted and the window emptied on the same day. "the board carries ten ready issues and two claimed right now", and "there is plenty to pick up" ahead of it — there are now zero ready and one claimed, so the line the 2026-09-01 entry singled out as "the single most consequential line for a newcomer" has inverted twice in five days; it is replaced with the reason rather than patched, because "nothing to pick up" stated bare is precisely the broken-board misreading the 2026-08-20 entry exists to prevent. "seventeen version epics from 0.1.3 to 0.3.1" — on 2026-09-05 at @danmt's direction the 0.1.x line from 0.1.4 to 0.1.13 was compacted into three windows (#694, #695, #696) and the 0.2.x line into two (#697, #698), eight epics closing as ledgers, each successor carrying a ## Supersedes table naming what it took. The span endpoints did not move and the count did: 0.1.3 to 0.3.1 now holds nine, counted off the roadmap's table and cross-checked against the live epic label set — the method the 2026-08-07 and 2026-08-20 entries both credit, and what lets this entry say the endpoint is right rather than assume it. "fifty-one issues: eighteen epics … twenty blocked, ten ready, two claimed, one post-merge … and seven carrying operator" — the board is thirteen, and every term of that composition moved. "eighteen epics (the seventeen version epics plus the governance-chairs epic #295)" — #295 closed as a ledger into #697 in the same compaction, so the nine epics on the board are now exactly the nine version epics and the parenthetical is dropped rather than re-counted. The operator count is the one that would mislead if it were only swapped for a number: seven to zero is not attrition, it is @danmt's ruling of 2026-09-03 that operator verifications stop being board issues and become rows on a release candidate's promotion gate, so the paragraph now says where that work went instead of reporting its absence. What was re-checked and did not move: 0.1.2 is still the newest published release at 2026-08-10T20:47:40Z, VERSION still reads 0.1.3-dev, the open window is still #327, and the human axis is still clear at zero needs-ruling and zero attention — each read off the live label set rather than off this sentence. Nothing else in this comment moved.)

This thread stays open as the standing welcome — it is an announcement, not a request, and there is nothing in it to close.