lisa-tracker-build-intake

name	lisa-tracker-build-intake
description	Vendor-neutral wrapper for the…
allowed-tools	["Skill","Bash","Read"]

Tracker Build Intake: $ARGUMENTS

Thin dispatcher. Resolves the configured destination tracker and delegates to the matching vendor build-queue scanner.

See the config-resolution rule for configuration and dispatch table.

The vendor scanners also own the terminal native-closure step from leaf-only-lifecycle: after a leaf reaches the true terminal done value, they close / resolve / complete the native tracker item where supported, while leaving intermediate env states open.

They also forward the narrow duplicate terminal exception from ticket-triage: when a claimed item returns DUPLICATE_ALREADY_FIXED with a canonical item reference and empirical base-branch evidence, the vendor scanner posts the triage finding, ensures a native duplicates <canonical> link where supported, and closes the item as a duplicate without opening a PR. This is distinct from BLOCKED; open blockers, ambiguous tickets, and duplicate-of-open findings stay held for human action.

Workflow

1. Resolve tracker config (same logic as lisa-tracker-write).
2. Dispatch:
   • Missing / empty → stop and report "No tracker configured in .lisa.config.json. Run /lisa:setup:jira, /lisa:setup:github, or /lisa:setup:linear first."
   • jira → invoke lisa-jira-build-intake with $ARGUMENTS verbatim. Arg shape: a JIRA project key (e.g., SE) or a JQL filter.
   • github → invoke lisa-github-build-intake with $ARGUMENTS verbatim. Arg shape: a GitHub org/repo token or a full GitHub repo URL.
   • linear → invoke lisa-linear-build-intake with $ARGUMENTS verbatim. Arg shape: a Linear team key (e.g., ENG) or the literal token linear (which falls back to linear.teamKey).
   • Anything else → stop and report "Unknown tracker '<value>' in .lisa.config.json. Expected 'jira', 'github', or 'linear'."
3. Pass through the cycle summary verbatim.

Leaf-only claim contract (forwarded to every vendor)

This shim is dispatch only — it does not reclassify or re-gate items — but the contract it forwards is part of the build-intake API, so it is documented here once and the three vendor scanners implement it identically. Per the vendor-neutral leaf-only-lifecycle rule, build intake claims only independently implementable leaf work units:

• A leaf work unit (Bug, Task, Sub-task, Improvement, or a childless Story/Spike — anything with no open child work except an Epic) is claimed and built.
• A container — anything with open child work, or a childless Epic — that still carries a stale build-ready role is never dispatched. The GitHub scanner moves it out of the pickup queue by replacing status:ready with status:in-progress and posting an idempotent lifecycle-repair comment; other vendor scanners skip or safe-block according to their native lifecycle semantics.

This is the claim-time arm of the rule. Its siblings are the write-time labeling (lisa-tracker-write → the vendor *-write-* skills apply build-ready to leaves only) and the validate-time S15 gate (lisa-tracker-validate → the vendor *-validate-* skills FAIL a build-ready container). All three arms cite leaf-only-lifecycle so no vendor drifts. Each vendor scanner implements the gate against its own hierarchy:

Tracker	Vendor scanner	Hierarchy used to detect open child work
github	lisa-github-build-intake (Phase 3a)	native sub-issues (GraphQL) + body parentage
jira	lisa-jira-build-intake (Phase 3a)	native Epic → Story → Sub-task parentage
linear	lisa-linear-build-intake (Phase 3a)	native sub-issues via parentId + Project grouping

The shim never needs to inspect the item itself — it forwards $ARGUMENTS verbatim and the resolved vendor scanner runs its Phase 3a gate before any claim.

Pre-work denominator contract (forwarded to every vendor)

Also part of the build-intake API, and the reason a dry queue can be believed. Two obligations, uniform across jira, github, and linear:

1. Sweep every pre-work lane by its machine-readable category, never by a roster of lane names. No tracker has a blocked category: Linear models a Blocked state as unstarted, JIRA models a Blocked status under To Do, and GitHub has no category at all, so its lanes come from configured roles. In every case a Blocked lane is pre-work — items that were never started, each carrying a written blocker. Keying selection on names omits it silently.
2. A nothing-needed run states its denominator — which lanes were swept, how many rows each held, and the total open. This is enforced, not requested: automation-run-record.mjs refuses a nothing-needed row for intake-tickets without a --denominator.

Shared helpers own both, so the vocabulary cannot drift per vendor: scripts/intake-prework-denominator.mjs (buildIntakeDenominator, summarizeDryLane) and scripts/intake-blocker-reprobe.mjs (classifyPreWorkCandidate, formatReprobeNote). The blocker re-probe carries an absolute human gate: an item carrying the configured human-needed label or a [lisa-human-gate] marker is never auto-selected, whatever a probe returns.

Measured: sweeping one team by lane name saw 39 of 343 open rows; by category it sees 100. The 61-row gap produced 31 consecutive false "dry lane" cycles, every record honest and every conclusion wrong (#2657).

Repo-scope claim contract (forwarded to every vendor)

Equally part of the build-intake API, and forwarded identically: when the tracker oversees multiple repos, each vendor scanner claims only tickets for the repo it is running in. Per the repo-scope-split rule's "Claim-time repo scoping" section, before the leaf-only gate each scanner (Phase 3a.0) resolves the current repo (config-resolution "Repo scoping": repo → github.repo → git remote basename), then for each ready candidate: skips a ticket labeled repo:<other>, determines + stamps repo:<name> on an unlabeled one, splits a multi-repo leaf into single-repo build-ready siblings, and claims only a single-repo leaf for the current repo. This shim does not re-implement the gate — it relies on the vendor scanner's Phase 3a.0 — but the contract is uniform across jira, github, and linear so behavior never drifts by tracker. It is the claim-time complement to the write-time S10 scope gate (lisa-tracker-validate) and task-decomposition step 1.5; all cite repo-scope-split.

Terminal native-closure contract (forwarded to every vendor)

This shim also forwards the leaf-only-lifecycle terminal native-closure contract. It does not decide whether a done value is terminal; the vendor scanner resolves that from its own config and deployment topology after the per-item agent succeeds.

Tracker	Vendor scanner behavior at true terminal done
github	apply the terminal done label, then gh issue close --reason completed
jira	transition to the configured terminal status and verify native resolved / closed state
linear	apply the terminal done label, then move the Issue to the configured completed workflow state

Intermediate env states are not native closure. A vendor scanner that resolves On Dev, On Stg, status:on-dev, status:on-stg, or a configured equivalent leaves the item open / unresolved.

Duplicate-already-fixed terminal contract (forwarded to every vendor)

DUPLICATE_ALREADY_FIXED is the only triage verdict that may close a claimed build item without a PR from the current cycle. The vendor scanner must require:

• canonical ticket/issue reference;
• canonical PR/commit reference;
• empirical evidence that the canonical fix is present on the relevant base branch.

Vendor closeout behavior:

Tracker	Duplicate closeout
github	apply terminal $DONE, ensure/link duplicates <canonical> where available, then gh issue close --reason "not planned"
jira	transition to terminal $DONE with resolution Duplicate and ensure the native duplicates link
linear	apply terminal $DONE, ensure/link duplicate relationship where available, then move to the configured canceled-as-duplicate or terminal duplicate state

If the canonical fix is merged but not yet on the production branch, the close comment must preserve the production-promotion caveat: the production error can recur until the canonical item promotes, and recurrence is tracked by the canonical item rather than by reopening this duplicate.

Rules

• Single cycle per invocation — the vendor skill processes at most one eligible Ready item and exits. Scheduler repetition works the rest of the queue.
• The vendor skills run their own pre-flight checks (JIRA workflow transitions for the JIRA path; label namespace adoption for the GitHub and Linear paths) before processing items. Never bypass.
• Leaf-only dispatch, every vendor. Per the leaf-only-lifecycle rule, each vendor scanner dispatches leaf work units only and moves or safe-blocks a container (open child work, or a childless Epic) carrying a stale build-ready role according to its lifecycle semantics. This shim does not re-implement the gate — it relies on the vendor scanner's Phase 3a — but the contract is uniform across jira, github, and linear so behavior never drifts by tracker.
• Terminal native closure, every capable vendor. Per the same rule, each vendor scanner finalizes native open/closed state only at the true terminal done value. This shim never performs native closure itself, but callers can rely on the dispatched vendor scanner to apply the contract.
• Duplicate already fixed, every vendor. Auto-close without a PR is allowed only for DUPLICATE_ALREADY_FIXED with canonical reference and empirical base-branch evidence. Do not conflate this with BLOCKED.
• Claim-time guards, every vendor. Per the claim-time-guards rule, each vendor scanner runs both guards inside its Phase 3b before the claim transition: an item whose own key already appears in git history or an open/merged PR routes to verify-and-close rather than being built twice, and the two-failed-attempts valve moves an item with two [lisa-build-attempt] markers to the configured blocked role and stops the cycle. This shim does not re-implement either guard; it forwards the contract so behavior never drifts by tracker.
• Never run two intake cycles concurrently against overlapping queues — the scheduling layer is responsible for serialization.