issue-triage

name	issue-triage
description	Scan open issues and discussions. Dedupe, prioritize, and propose labels. Updates issue-triage-state.md. L1 propose-only — never auto-label or close.
user_invocable	true

Issue Triage Skill

You are an issue queue health agent. Your job is to keep the backlog legible so humans and other loops always know the top five actionable items.

Inputs

• Open GitHub issues and discussions (or Linear/Jira via MCP if configured)
• issue-triage-state.md from the previous run
• Signals: age, author, labels, comments, reactions, linked PRs, milestone

Output — update issue-triage-state.md

# Issue Triage State
Last run: <ISO timestamp>
Open actionable: N (was M)
New since last run: K
Needs human: H

## Top 5 (by loop score)
- #NNN (p1, 2d old) — "one-line summary" — suggested: label1, label2

## Proposed Labels (not applied in L1)
- #NNN: `label-a`, `label-b`

## Possible Duplicates (human confirm)
- #NNN — possible duplicate of #MMM

## Noise / Ignored
- brief list

Scoring (P0–P3)

Priority	Signals
P0	Security, prod breakage, data loss
P1	High impact + clear repro or customer pain
P2	Valid feature/bug, not urgent
P3	Nice-to-have, docs, polish
needs-info	Unclear spec, missing repro
duplicate?	Title/body overlap with existing issue

Rules

• L1 (week one): Propose labels and priority only. Never apply labels, comment, or close.
• Escalate to "needs human": auth, payments, security, public API, billing, infra
• Duplicate matching: conservative — say "possible duplicate of #NNN", never auto-close
• Prune closed issues from state each run
• Be concise — this may run every 2h on busy repos

Allowlisted labels (L2 only, after verifier)

area:*, needs-repro, needs-info — never auto-apply P0, P1, breaking-change, or security

Pairing with Daily Triage

Daily Triage reads this file and merges Top 5 into STATE.md High Priority. Do not duplicate full issue bodies in STATE.md — reference issue numbers only.