tracker

name	tracker
description	Tracker-side work for a corgi workspace (Linear or Jira). Four jobs — (1) STATUS/standup — "where are we", "what's blocked", "give me an update"; (2) TRIAGE the inbox — "sort the new issues", "any duplicates"; (3) DECOMPOSE — "break this epic into tickets", "plan the work for X"; (4) PICK UP WORK (/corgi-queue) — "what's ready to build", "what should I start with", "pick from the backlog", "most impactful", "any bugs", "grab the agent tickets" — resolved by scope (the `agent` queue by default, a status, the backlog, priority/ROI, or links you pass) and handed to the stories skill. Edge over the tracker UI — ties each ticket to REAL code state — branch, draft/open/merged PR, CI — across every compose service (GitHub or GitLab), surfacing drift like "In Progress but no branch". Read-only itself; one confirm gate guards any write. NOT for implementing tickets (stories), ideas (suggest), reviewing PRs (review), running/diagnosing the stack (run/debug), or authoring corgi-compose.yml (corgi). Use when this capability is needed.
metadata	{"author":"Andriiklymiuk"}

Corgi tracker

Read the tracker (Linear or Jira) and corgi-compose.yml, tie each ticket to its real code state, and do four jobs: status, triage, decompose, pickup. Reports, plans, and dispatches to stories — never writes code itself.

Why not just the tracker UI: it doesn't know your service→repo map, so it can't tell you an In Progress ticket has no branch or a Todo whose PR already merged. That correlation is the point — when compose is on disk, never report status without it.

Exact tracker calls (Linear + Jira tools, JQL, forge queries) live in references/tracker-and-forge.md — read it before calling the tracker; don't guess a tool name.

Guardrails

• Read-only until the gate. Reading tracker + forge is free; any write (create/move/label/priority/comment) batches behind one confirm (--yes skips asking).
• Correlate, don't assume. True state = tracker status + PR/CI. Report mismatches; never invent an estimate/status/assignee the tracker lacks.
• Plan, don't build — code → stories, ideas → suggest. Never touch manualRun.
• No AI attribution. Everything posted or committed — ticket comments, PR/MR bodies, commit messages, store listings/notes — reads as if a human wrote it. Never add "generated by AI / Claude / corgi", a co-authored-by or AI trailer, a bot signature, or a robot-emoji badge to any outward text.

Phase 0 — Workspace + tracker + forge

• Workspace — ls corgi-compose.yml *.corgi-compose.yml; read service→dir + dependency order (path/cloneFrom, depends_on_services, exclude manualRun; schema ../corgi/references/yml-schema.md). Absent → tracker-only; skip Phase 1, say the code column wasn't checked.
• Forge — git -C <dir> remote get-url origin → gh/glab (may span both).
• Tracker — Linear (linear.app/key) → mcp__linear-server__*; Jira (atlassian.net/project key) → mcp__atlassian__*. Both + bare key → ask. Neither connected → name what to connect, offer a git-only digest.

Phase 1 — Correlate ticket ↔ code (the superpower)

Per in-scope ticket (skip only if no compose): find its PRs — prefer the tracker's own git links (Linear attachments / Jira dev-panel), else list PRs whose head branch contains the key per repo. Record none/draft/open/merged/closed + link + CI. Read-only; no checkout. Then flag drift:

Tracker	Code	Report as
In Progress	no branch/PR	not started
In Progress	open PR, CI red	blocked on CI → /corgi-debug
In Review	no PR	drift — nothing to review
Todo/Backlog	PR merged	stale — close (gate)
Done	PR open	premature done
any	open PR, no review	needs a reviewer → /corgi-review

Hold one cache; the jobs below read it, never re-query.

Job 1 — Status / standup

Group the cache, lead with blockers + drift, each line carrying PR + CI:

Cycle 24 · day 6/10 · 14 issues
🔴 ABC-122 api  Webhook retries  PR #255 open, CI ✗  → /corgi-debug
   ABC-130 web  New onboarding   In Progress 4d, no branch ⚠
🟢 ABC-118 api  Add phone field  PR #251 draft, CI ✓ → ready to land
✅ Done 5 · 🗒 Todo 3 · ⏳ Stale 1 (ABC-077, 23d)

End with the burn read (can the open points land in the days left? why not) + next actions routed to skills. No cycle (Jira Kanban / Linear without cycles) → group by status column, no burn line. Asked "who" (owner / who to unblock) → add the assignee per line. "Plan next sprint" → propose a set within capacity (tracker velocity if exposed, else ask), carry-over first, producer-before-consumer; offer to move it in (gate).

Job 2 — Triage (sort & prioritize the inbox)

Plain asks: "sort the new bugs", "which of these matter", "clean up the inbox". Per untriaged issue, propose (don't apply): label/area (map text → service via compose + READMEs), priority (real signals, else needs-info + the question), assignee (by ownership if known, else leave), duplicate (link a candidate). Table → gate → batch-write. Ambiguous → leave it, flag.

Job 3 — Decompose epic → tickets

Feature/epic → buildable, ordered tickets (what stories wants):

1. Scope it (read the epic + existing children to not dup). Source = a tracker epic or a local doc ("turn this roadmap/PRD into tickets" → read the file from docs/, treat it as the epic). Large / ambiguous / free-text → settle the boundary first with superpowers:brainstorming (if installed, else inline Q&A) before cutting tickets.
2. One ticket per unit of work per service. Cross-service → a producer ticket
   • consumer(s), blocks-links encoding order.
3. Each: title, intent, service(s), acceptance criteria, T-shirt size (never false-precise). Multi-service → a one-line contract note.
4. Preview set + order → gate → create (parented, linked) → offer "build these now?" → hand keys to stories (don't let it re-create them).

Job 4 — Pickup (build-ready tickets → stories)

Two ways in, same dispatch. Read-only here — stories owns the build + its spec gate.

1. Resolve the set — read the scope from the user's words; default to the agent label:

   • explicit links/keys passed in → exactly those.
   • no scope said → the agent queue (label agent).
   • "in ready" / "todo" / a named column → that status.
   • "from backlog" → the backlog (unstarted, below the active cycle).
   • "most impactful" / "highest priority" / "most ROI" / "most valuable" (of work we already have) → order the candidate set by tracker priority + value signals (linked customers/issues), surface the top. Say it's a priority ordering, not a business-impact score. ROI/value of new, untracked ideas → suggest, not pickup.
   • "bugs" / "bugs to fix" → ready bug-type tickets (Linear type/label Bug; Jira issuetype = Bug). stories builds them bug-tier (red test first).

   All scopes apply the same floor: not In Progress / not Done, not blocked. Calls per tracker: references/tracker-and-forge.md. A question or singular ask ("do we have bugs?", "what should I start with?") → answer the inventory first (count

   • one line each), then offer to build — don't auto-build the whole set off a question.

2. Drop drift (Phase 1): skip anything already merged or with an open PR — flag, don't rebuild. All scopes.

3. Present + confirm (one line each, size + service; tag "has spec" when the ticket already carries one — stories reuses and re-verifies it). Auto-pick = all ready for a batch ask; a singular/question ask → present, let the user pick.

4. Hand picked keys to stories — it builds and, as each branch is created, moves the ticket to in-progress + self-assigns (then → the team's review state when its draft PR opens) — stories Phases 3 & 5. The in-progress move de-dupes a looping /corgi-queue (auto-pick takes only not-In-Progress). Loop /loop 1h /corgi-queue to keep draining on a schedule (each round's batch still passes the one spec gate — not zero-touch). Empty / all-drift → say so.

The write gate

One confirm for the whole batch (never per-issue):

Write to <Linear|Jira>:  create 3 under EPIC-9 + links · move ABC-118 to Cycle 25 · set GHI-4 High
apply / edit / cancel

On by default (--yes skips). Preflight the MCP is connected — if not, keep the plan + a paste-ready body + the new-issue URL, stop. Idempotent: match on title/key, update not duplicate. Post one terse comment, not several — don't spam the ticket; update an existing comment in place rather than adding new ones.

Hand-offs & degrade

• Build → stories · ideas → suggest · unreviewed PR → review · blocked/deployed → debug · draft + green → land it (gh pr merge / glab mr merge).
• No tracker MCP → git-only digest. No compose → tracker-only (code column omitted, say so). Mixed forges/trackers → resolve per repo/issue.
• Big cycle (>~30) → one Explore per service-area for Phase 1, merge into the cache.

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