docs/agents/issue-tracker.md

Issue tracker: Local Markdown

Issues and specs (you may know a spec as a PRD) for this repo live as markdown files in .scratch/.

Conventions

• One feature per directory: .scratch/<feature-slug>/
• The spec is .scratch/<feature-slug>/spec.md
• Implementation issues are one file per ticket at .scratch/<feature-slug>/issues/<NN>-<slug>.md, numbered from 01 — never a single combined tickets file
• Triage state is recorded as a Status: line near the top of each issue file (see triage-labels.md for the role strings)
• Comments and conversation history append to the bottom of the file under a ## Comments heading

When a skill says "publish to the issue tracker"

Create a new file under .scratch/<feature-slug>/ (creating the directory if needed).

When a skill says "fetch the relevant ticket"

Read the file at the referenced path. The user will normally pass the path or the issue number directly.

Wayfinding operations

Used by /wayfinder. The map is a file with one child file per ticket.

• Map: .scratch/<effort>/map.md — the Notes / Decisions-so-far / Fog body.
• Child ticket: .scratch/<effort>/issues/NN-<slug>.md, numbered from 01, with the question in the body. A Type: line records the ticket type (research/prototype/grilling/task); a Status: line records claimed/resolved.
• Blocking: a Blocked by: NN, NN line near the top. A ticket is unblocked when every file it lists is resolved.
• Frontier: scan .scratch/<effort>/issues/ for files that are open, unblocked, and unclaimed; first by number wins.
• Claim: set Status: claimed and save before any work.
• Resolve: append the answer under an ## Answer heading, set Status: resolved, then append a context pointer (gist + link) to the map's Decisions-so-far in map.md.