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Issue Workflow & rig-conductor / rig-planner Coordination

How work flows from idea to shipped code across the agent fleet.

ATL-E deployment ceased ~2026-03-26 (last commit); formal retirement decision 2026-05-20 (operator-confirmed). Assignment + queuing is now owned by rig-conductor (the in-cluster API) + rig-planner (intake refinement). This doc covers the human-facing workflow (labels + flow). For internal architecture see the rig overview and conductor docs in docs/infrastructure/rig/.

Issue Lifecycle (Stig-Johnny org legacy + dashecorp rig)

For dashecorp/ and rig- repos: rig-conductor owns the PR lifecycle end-to-end. It exposes a cluster-internal REST API used by the agents — webhook intake from GitHub, assignment dispatch, server-side merge gate, etc. The authoritative endpoint inventory is the rig-docs surfaces file (facts/surfaces.yaml in dashecorp/rig-docs, rendered at https://research.rig.dashecorp.com/BRAIN.md). The per-endpoint table in docs/infrastructure/rig/conductor/conductor.md is a curated subset of the same API.

For Stig-Johnny/* repos (legacy, being archived): the per-repo request-review.yml workflow handles review routing; merge is manual via gh pr merge (there is no auto-merge.yml), and release-please.yml auto-merges release PRs only. See docs/infrastructure/ci-cd.md.

Issue Labels (dashecorp rig repos)

These are the labels that actually exist in dashecorp/rig-docs and dashecorp/rig-conductor and drive the live rig workflow:

Label Color Meaning Set by
agent-ready #0E8A16 green Approved by PO. Eligible for agent assignment. User (Stig-Johnny)
epic #5319e7 purple Tracking issue spanning multiple PRs. User
roadmap:brain-docs #1F6FEB blue BRAIN/docs roadmap item. User
planned-by:rig-planner #1d76db blue Decomposed/refined by rig-planner (Planner-E). rig-planner
tier:t1 #0e8a16 green Priority tier 1 (highest). User
tier:t2 #fbca04 yellow Priority tier 2. User
tier:t3 #b60205 red Priority tier 3. User
needs-spec #cccccc gray Needs a spec before refinement. User or agent
needs-triage #ededed gray Awaiting triage. User or agent

Issue size: large-pr-ok also exists in rig-conductor (#e4e669 yellow/gold) for intentionally large, non-decomposable PRs — but it gates a PR, not an issue (see PR Labels below).

PR Labels (rig-conductor)

Label Color Meaning Set by
needs-review #0052cc blue Operator opt-in: route this PR to Review-E for direct review (dispatcher pattern, 2026-06-12+). User
large-pr-ok #e4e669 yellow/gold PR > size threshold, opt-out from size-split (genuinely non-decomposable work only). User or agent (with justification in PR body)

Legacy labels (Stig-Johnny / claude-3 — no longer used in dashecorp workflow)

in-progress (yellow), blocked (red), requires-macos (gray), high-priority (red), manual-merge (gray), and copilot-suggestion (gray) were part of the legacy Stig-Johnny per-repo workflow and are not used in the live dashecorp rig flow.

Agent Capability Routing

Issue type Eligible agents
requires-macos iBuild-E (Mac Mini M4 — ai.invotek.ibuild-e user-domain LaunchAgent via agent-runner) or a Claude workspace (claude-3/4/5/6)
Linux / non-macOS Pi-E, Volt-E, Dev-E (any agent without macOS dependency)
Code review (any PR) Review-E (dispatched by rig-conductor via webhook)
Architecture / planning Codi-E (claude-3 orchestrator)
Intake refinement / decomposition rig-planner (Planner-E personality)

Orchestrator-Only Work

Rig-internal repos exception (operator policy set 2026-05-14, server-side enforcement shipped rc#1168 on 2026-05-19): rig agents (dev-e / review-e / iBuild-E / planner) only work on apps + websites (dashe-, dashe-website, coffee, carrots, etc.). All work on rig-internal repos (rig-conductor, rig-agent-runtime, rig-gitops, rig-docs, rig-tools, infra) is orchestrator-only (Codi-E / claude-3). File issues without* the agent-ready label and ship the work yourself. Same exception is documented in agents.md ("Rig-internal repos exception (rc#1168)") and rig-conductor/docs/main-guard.md. CLAUDE.md's "CHECK BRAIN BEFORE DASHECORP CI/AUTOMATION" rule covers the same territory from a different angle.

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