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chore(ci): triage gate — every new issue starts as needs-triage, only a maintainer completes triage - #1041
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… a maintainer completes triage The Triage gate workflow (tools/triage_gate.py) keeps needs-triage on every issue until a maintainer removes it: it labels an issue however it was created, sends an issue reopened by a non-maintainer back to triage, and puts the label back, with one comment, when anyone but a maintainer removes it. A maintainer who removed the label before the workflow started is not overruled. The nightly-failure issue is created with the label, because events caused by GITHUB_TOKEN start no other workflow. CONTRIBUTING.md (Issue triage), MAINTAINERS.md (Triage), GOVERNANCE.md, the issue forms, the pull-request template, the review standard and the agent guides tell contributors not to work on, or open a pull request for, an issue that still carries the label. Fixes #1036 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
tools/issue_dependencies.py also keeps a MAINTAINER_LOGINS list and also adds needs-triage (for an issue whose blocker was closed without being completed). MAINTAINERS.md now names all three lists, the test pins their parity, and CONTRIBUTING.md's Issue triage section lists that second way an issue returns to triage. Refs #1036 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Reviewer's GuideThis PR implements a maintainer-controlled issue triage gate: a pinned, least-privilege workflow invokes a defensive Python tool to add or restore Sequence diagram for the maintainer-controlled issue triage gatesequenceDiagram
participant GitHub
participant Gate as triage-gate.yml
participant Script as triage_gate.py
participant API as GitHub Issues API
actor Maintainer
actor Contributor
GitHub->>Gate: issues opened, reopened, or unlabeled
Gate->>Script: Run with event payload
Script->>API: current_labels()
API-->>Script: Current issue labels
alt Issue already has needs-triage
Script-->>GitHub: Leave issue unchanged
else Reopened by non-maintainer
Script->>API: add_triage_label()
Script->>API: _comment(MSG_REOPENED)
else needs-triage removed by non-maintainer
Script->>API: read_history()
alt No later maintainer removal
Script->>API: add_triage_label()
Script->>API: _comment(MSG_RESTORED)
else Maintainer removed it since
Script-->>GitHub: Leave triage complete
end
else Opened without a maintainer removal
Script->>API: add_triage_label()
end
Maintainer->>API: Remove needs-triage after review
Contributor-->>GitHub: Wait while needs-triage is present
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Docstring coverage is 15.28% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 144 functions across 2 files. (13 skipped… | Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold. |
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Check name Status Explanation Title check The title clearly identifies the main change: a CI triage gate that applies needs-triage to new issues and limits triage completion to maintainers. Description check The description includes all required template sections. It states the purpose, links the related issue, lists changes, identifies CI/infrastructure work, documents testing, and completes the checklis… Linked Issues check Issue #1036has active coding requirements. The PR addstools/triage_gate.pyand.github/workflows/triage-gate.yml. The script uses pure decisions, injected GitHub calls, fixedrepos/issue endp…Out of Scope Changes check The changed files support issue #1036. The workflow and nightly label change implement triage enforcement. The tests validate the new gate. The contributor, maintainer, governance, review, template, a…Full details: Description check
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The description includes all required template sections. It states the purpose, links the related issue, lists changes, identifies CI/infrastructure work, documents testing, and completes the checklist.
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#1036has active coding requirements. The PR addstools/triage_gate.pyand.github/workflows/triage-gate.yml. The script uses pure decisions, injected GitHub calls, fixedrepos/issue endpoints, bounded history, maintainer checks, and safe logging. The workflow sets the required permissions, pinned sparse checkout, triggers, and concurrency..github/workflows/nightly.ymladdsneeds-triage.tests/test_triage_gate.pycovers decision rules, failure paths, logging protections, API limits, and workflow security. The specified documentation and the existing-issue sweep record are present in the reviewed changes.
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#1036. The workflow and nightly label change implement triage enforcement. The tests validate the new gate. The contributor, maintainer, governance, review, template, agent-guide, architecture-count, user-manual, and changelog updates document or maintain the triage policy and repository consistency. No unrelated change is established by the reviewed evidence.
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Review of #1041: - GitHub App logins end in "[bot]" and were rejected as invalid, so an App opening, reopening or un-labelling an issue made the gate exit 2. The login shape now allows the suffix; tests use real App logins. - The decision is a function of the issue's state (its labels, label history and reopenings), not of the event that woke the run: a replayed, delayed or cancelled run reaches the same answer, a maintainer's removal after a contributor's reopening is no longer overruled, and a second look right before the write lets a maintainer's removal in the window win. Events are ordered by (created_at, id), not by arrival, and a history of exactly 1000 events is read in full; a longer one fails closed for a non-maintainer and is reported by the sweep. - An hourly sweep gives every open issue created since TRIAGE_SWEEP_SINCE that lacks the label the same decision, which repairs a failed API call, a disabled workflow and issues that a workflow creates with its own GITHUB_TOKEN. - Runs on one issue are queued per issue (no cancel-in-progress); the job timeout is 10 minutes and a gh call 30 seconds. A former maintainer's removals stay valid (FORMER_MAINTAINER_LOGINS). - gh calls are restricted to the issues endpoints of the repository; the repository name, the action type and the sweep date are validated. - Docs: an exposed secret is rotated and an issue holding a live secret or personal data is deleted (the "never deleted" rule had no exception), triage is a point in time, the "will not be reviewed" rule is a maintainer practice listed in the review standard, label table rows for enhancement/duplicate/invalid/wontfix, the 72-hour reply target everywhere, test-module counts. - Tests pin the workflow's trigger, `if`, concurrency, checkout SHA and cone mode, the gh wrapper's refusals without starting gh, 999/1000/1001-event histories, out-of-order events and the nightly label array. Refs #1036 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 403-427: Update untriaged_candidates to enforce a bounded
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…ging every open issue untriaged_candidates paged the list of open issues newest-first and counted issues that already carry needs-triage against its page budget; past the budget it raised and handled none of the candidates it had found, and since labelled issues keep their place in the list, a bulk import of more than 500 issues would have stalled every later sweep. The candidates now come from the search API (open, an issue, no needs-triage, created since TRIAGE_SWEEP_SINCE), so the server does the filtering and every page entry is a candidate. A run handles at most 500 and says so; handling an issue removes it from the query, so the next run continues with the rest and no checkpoint is needed. The filters are checked again on what the (possibly lagging) index returns. gh may use the search endpoint for GET only. Refs #1036 Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Every new issue starts as
needs-triage, only a maintainer takes the label off, and contributors are told not to work on an issue that still carries it.Related issues
Fixes #1036
Changes
tools/triage_gate.py+.github/workflows/triage-gate.yml. What it does is a function of the issue's state (labels, label history, reopenings), never of which event woke the run, so a replayed, delayed or cancelled run reaches the same answer:needs-triagehowever it was created (the issue forms add it; the API,gh issue create, apps and workflows do not), unless the history shows a maintainer already removed it;sweepjob gives every open issue created sinceTRIAGE_SWEEP_SINCEthat lacks the label the same decision (a failed API call, a disabled workflow, an issue created with a workflow's ownGITHUB_TOKEN);MAINTAINERS.md, shared withassign_on_comment.pyandissue_dependencies.py(a test pins all three);FORMER_MAINTAINER_LOGINSkeeps a retired maintainer's past removals valid.assign-on-comment.yml:contents: read+issues: write, the checkout action pinned to a full SHA and one file of the default branch, no${{ }}in arun:line, issue title and body never read,ghlimited to the issues endpoints. Runs on one issue are queued per issue; a pending run may be replaced because the state decides, not the event.nightly.ymlcreates the nightly-failure issue withneeds-triage.CONTRIBUTING.md, Triage inMAINTAINERS.md(including the secret / personal-data exception to "an issue is never deleted"),GOVERNANCE.md, the issue forms, the PR template,docs/standards/code-review.md(merge precondition 6),CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md, and the CHANGELOG. Test-module counts (132 → 133) and the 48 → 72 hour reply target in the user manual are brought in line.Rollout: sweep of the existing open issues (acceptance criterion of #1036)
Read-only sweep on 2026-10-20 of
repos/HodeTech/ForgeLM/issues?state=open(pull requests excluded):needs-triagephase: 16/deferredlabelAll 864 were opened by the maintainer; none by an outside contributor or an app. No open issue is untriaged yet lacks the label, so none was labelled. The 15
[Triage]issues that carried the label were triaged in the same session (#878 and the closed ones are recorded on their threads). Issues created beforeTRIAGE_SWEEP_SINCEare not swept;MAINTAINERS.mdsays so.Type
Testing
pytest tests/passes (6190 passed, 98 skipped);tests/test_triage_gate.pyhas 203 casesruff check .passesruff format --check .passesif:, the checkout SHA and cone mode, theghendpoint guard, the bot-suffix rule, the page limit, the event sort, the second look before writing and the nightly label array makes a test fail.python -m forgelm --config config_template.yaml --dry-runworksfa182e2: exit 0.Before merging / after merging
TRIAGE_SWEEP_SINCEintriage-gate.ymlis2026-10-21T00:00:00Z. If this merges later, set it to the merge date, so issues the maintainer filed by hand in between are not labelled.developmentonly. Smoke test with a throw-away issue: open it withgh issue create(expectneeds-triagewithin seconds); remove the label as a non-maintainer, if there is a second account (expect it back with a comment); then close it.needs-triage; remove it with the maintainer token once the issue is classified. The gate skips an issue whose history already shows a maintainer's removal.Decisions taken in review
CONTRIBUTING.mdandMAINTAINERS.md.code-review.mdsays so. A required PR check was left out deliberately.nightly-failureissue that fails again only gets a comment and no new label: it is the same, already-triaged issue.Checklist
docs/standards/coding.mdconfig_template.yaml) not affected[Unreleased]needs-triage), or this PR links no issue🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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Enforce maintainer-led issue triage by keeping
needs-triageon every untriaged issue and preventing contributors from starting work until it is reviewed.New Features:
needs-triageregardless of how they were opened.Bug Fixes:
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needs-triagelabel when appropriate.Documentation
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