ommx-issue-triage

OMMX Issue Triage

Use this skill to manage OMMX GitHub issues consistently. Keep the live GitHub state as the source of truth; do not rely on stale memory, old issue summaries, or local assumptions when labels, open/closed state, assignees, or milestones matter.

Scope

Apply this skill to issues, not PR release preparation. When the task is to label a PR for release notes, hand off to the PR review or publish workflow and judge labels from the actual diff.

Use labels rather than GitHub Issue type for normal issue management in this repo. Current GitHub CLI versions may expose issue type, but OMMX's triage and release workflows are label-based, and CLI availability varies across agent environments.

Label Model

Treat labels in two groups. Keep label names short and stable; improve consistency through descriptions and usage rules before creating new labels.

Release-note labels are shared with PRs and are interpreted by .github/release.yml. Do not rename, delete, or change the meaning of these labels during issue triage:

• breaking change: accepted work intentionally breaks compatibility.
• bug: observed incorrect behavior or failing workflow.
• proto: accepted work changes protobuf schema or generated protobuf contract.
• python: PR changes the Python SDK public API, generated stubs, or adapter public API.
• rust: PR changes the Rust SDK public API.
• documentation: accepted work is primarily docs, examples, tutorials, migration guides, or API reference.
• dependencies: dependency update work; GitHub release notes exclude it.

Non-release labels are decision aids. Design them from the viewpoint of who uses the label and what decision it supports; do not treat them as a flat taxonomy.

Reporter-facing labels classify what kind of problem a library user is reporting:

• feature request: user tried or planned to use OMMX and needs a missing capability, API, format support, integration, or workflow.
• performance: existing supported behavior works, but is slower, larger, or less scalable than expected. Require benchmarks before claiming improvement.
• bug is also reporter-facing, but it is a release-note label because bug-fix PRs must be categorized in releases.

Do not apply rust or python to issues. Those labels answer what API surface actually changed in a PR; an issue can discuss likely implementation areas without carrying a speculative API-change label.

Developer-facing labels classify the implementation work:

• maintenance: internal quality, repository operation, tooling, linting, cleanup, migration hygiene, or development workflow work that is neither a user feature nor an observed bug.
• rfc: direction-setting issue used to reach agreement on API, schema, architecture, semantics, responsibility boundary, or scope. Use this when the outcome may be an accepted direction, rejection, or follow-up implementation issues rather than a single concrete implementation PR.

Manager-facing labels classify backlog handling:

• workstream: parent issue that tracks progress across multiple PRs, child issues, or implementation slices. Do not use for single-PR work.
• needs info: cannot be assigned or scoped until reproduction details, expected behavior, affected version, or acceptance criteria are clarified.
• blocked: work is accepted but waiting on an external dependency, upstream decision, credential/permission change, or prerequisite PR.
• help wanted: scoped enough for an external contributor; maintainers welcome help.
• good first issue: small, low-risk, and well-specified enough for a new contributor.

Triage-outcome labels close or redirect work:

• duplicate: same underlying work is tracked elsewhere.
• wontfix: the work will not be pursued.

Automation labels such as github_actions and python:uv are Dependabot-owned PR labels in this repository. Ignore them during issue triage and do not apply them manually to issues. If Dependabot noise becomes a problem, fix the Dependabot configuration separately instead of repurposing these labels.

Do not add domain labels such as artifact, experiment, adapter, or dataset just because an issue belongs to that area; those topics are searchable from titles and bodies. Propose a new domain label only after several active issues need the same planning queue and existing labels cannot express it without overloading release-note semantics.

Prefer GitHub Projects or milestones over labels for priority, owner, status, and due date. Labels should remain stable filters, not a second project board.

Issue Relationships

Use GitHub issue Relationships for strict issue-to-issue blocking dependencies. Treat them as the machine-readable dependency graph, not as a general "related issue" list.

Add a Relationship when:

• issue B cannot be implemented safely until issue A is decided or completed;
• doing B before A would likely cause rework or produce an invalid API shape;
• maintainers need the dependency graph to decide whether B is ready to start.

Do not add a Relationship for loose topical links, follow-up reading, alternative proposals, same-area work, or "nice to do together" coordination. Use issue links in the body or comments for those cases.

Keep the rationale outside the Relationship itself:

• use the issue body for workstream status, child issue lists, accepted decisions, and remaining work;
• use comments for the audit trail explaining why a dependency was added, removed, or reclassified;
• use workstream for the parent issue that tracks progress across multiple PRs or child issues, even when some children also have Relationships.

The blocked label is broader than Relationships: use it when accepted work is waiting on an external dependency, upstream decision, permission, credential, or prerequisite PR. Use Relationships only for GitHub issue-to-issue dependencies.

Prefer the supported gh issue fields and flags when the local GitHub CLI exposes them:

gh issue view 123 --repo Jij-Inc/ommx --json number,title,blockedBy,blocking
gh issue edit 456 --repo Jij-Inc/ommx --add-blocked-by 123
gh issue edit 123 --repo Jij-Inc/ommx --add-blocking 456

Before mutating Relationships, restate the exact dependency edge, for example "#123 blocks #456". Use --remove-blocked-by or --remove-blocking to remove the same edge.

Some agent environments have older gh versions whose issue view --json and issue edit commands do not expose Relationship fields or flags. In that case, fall back to GraphQL for reads:

gh api graphql -f query='
query($owner:String!, $repo:String!, $number:Int!) {
  repository(owner:$owner, name:$repo) {
    issue(number:$number) {
      number
      title
      issueDependenciesSummary { totalBlockedBy totalBlocking }
      blockedBy(first:50) {
        totalCount
        nodes { number title url repository { nameWithOwner } }
      }
      blocking(first:50) {
        totalCount
        nodes { number title url repository { nameWithOwner } }
      }
    }
  }
}' -f owner=Jij-Inc -f repo=ommx -F number=123

Use raw GraphQL mutations only when the supported gh issue edit flags are not available in the local CLI.

Recommended GitHub Descriptions

When brushing up labels on GitHub, prefer description-only updates unless the user explicitly wants renames or color changes:

Label	Recommended description
breaking change	Accepted work intentionally breaks compatibility
bug	Observed incorrect behavior or failing workflow
dependencies	Dependency update work; excluded from release notes
blocked	Accepted work is waiting on an external dependency or prerequisite
documentation	Docs, examples, tutorials, migration guides, or API reference
duplicate	Same underlying work is tracked elsewhere
feature request	User needs a missing capability, API, format support, integration, or workflow
good first issue	Small, well-scoped, low-risk issue for new contributors
help wanted	Maintainers welcome external help on this scoped issue
maintenance	Internal quality, repository operation, tooling, linting, or cleanup work
needs info	Needs reproduction details, expected behavior, version, or acceptance criteria
performance	Performance, scaling, storage size, streaming, or repeated-cost concern
proto	Protobuf schema or generated protobuf contract changes
python	PR changes the Python SDK public API, generated stubs, or adapter public API
rfc	Direction-setting discussion for API, schema, architecture, semantics, or scope
rust	PR changes the Rust SDK public API
workstream	Parent issue tracking multiple PRs, child issues, or implementation slices
wontfix	This work will not be pursued

Triage Workflow

1. Resolve live state.

   • Read the current labels: gh label list --repo Jij-Inc/ommx --limit 100 --json name,description,color.
   • Read current open issues: gh issue list --repo Jij-Inc/ommx --state open --limit 100 --json number,title,labels,assignees,milestone,updatedAt,createdAt,url.
   • For unlabeled, stale, or ambiguous issues, fetch the issue body before classifying. Titles alone are not enough.
   • For dependency audits, read blockedBy and blocking through gh issue view --json number,title,blockedBy,blocking when available. If the local CLI reports unknown fields, fall back to GraphQL.

2. Classify by audience and decision.

   • Reporter-facing: is this a missing capability (feature request), an observed failure (bug), or a speed/scale problem (performance)?
   • Developer-facing: is this direction-setting (rfc), or internal quality/tooling/process work (maintenance)?
   • Manager-facing: is this a multi-PR parent (workstream), waiting for information (needs info), blocked (blocked), suitable for outside help (help wanted), or suitable for a newcomer (good first issue)?
   • Ask what code/docs would change if this issue were implemented.
   • Do not add rust or python to issues based on expected implementation surface. Apply those labels only to PRs after checking the actual diff and confirming an SDK API change.
   • If the issue carries API, architecture, invariant, or scope tradeoffs but also has concrete acceptance criteria for a single implementation task, do not add a separate label only for those tradeoffs; keep the reasoning in the issue or PR body.
   • If the issue describes an observed failure, use bug even when the eventual fix will touch rust, python, documentation, or repository workflows.

3. Treat feature request, rfc, and workstream as different questions.

   • feature request answers: what new user-visible capability or workflow is being requested?
   • rfc answers: which API, schema, architecture, semantic, responsibility, or scope direction should be accepted before implementation issues are split out or PR work proceeds?
   • workstream answers: where do we track progress, decisions, and remaining work across multiple PRs or child issues?
   • Use feature request for concrete implementation tasks even when the body includes design questions.
   • Use rfc for direction-setting documents whose natural result is a decision or follow-up issues, not one direct PR.
   • Use workstream for parent issues with status tables, checklists, child issues, or multi-PR progress tracking.

4. Preserve PR release-note semantics.

   • Do not use rust, python, proto, documentation, or bug as vague topic tags.
   • Do not apply rust or python during issue triage. Use them only in PR review/release-note workflows after the actual API change is visible.
   • Do not relabel open PRs from this skill unless the user explicitly asks; PR labels should be judged from the actual diff.

5. Propose before mutating.

   • Unless the user explicitly asks to apply changes immediately, first show a table with issue number, current labels, proposed labels, and reason.
   • Separate additions from removals.
   • Mark ambiguous cases and explain what evidence would decide them.

6. Apply changes narrowly.

   • Before a write, restate the exact issue number and label changes.
   • Prefer additive label changes when the existing label is still correct.
   • Remove a label only when it conflicts with the model above.
   • Before mutating Relationships, restate the exact dependency edge, for example "#1007 blocks #1030".
   • Do not encode loose related links as Relationships; use body links or comments instead.
   • Do not close, reopen, assign, or edit issue bodies as part of label cleanup unless the user asks for that action.

Common OMMX Judgments

• Do not use rust or python to say "this issue probably touches that part of the codebase." Those labels mean the reviewed PR changed the Rust or Python SDK API.
• Migration guides, Sphinx pages, API-reference wiring, tutorials, and example prose may use documentation when the issue itself is documentation work.
• Wire-format schema, protobuf root messages, generated message compatibility, and Buf publication work may use proto when the issue is explicitly about the protobuf contract.
• GitHub token permissions, PR workflows, CI jobs, release automation, and registry push jobs driven by Actions imply bug when they are failing unexpectedly. Do not use github_actions for issue triage; it is a Dependabot PR label in this repository.

Output

For audit-only requests, summarize counts and the highest-leverage cleanup groups. For action requests, return the applied changes and any skipped ambiguous issues. Keep the output issue-focused and avoid release-note prose unless PR labeling is explicitly in scope.