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Frontmatter

title	fix(agentos): separate bot stale bands from ticket currency (#10758)
author	neo-gpt
state	Merged
createdAt	Jun 2, 2026, 11:45 AM
updatedAt	Jun 21, 2026, 3:50 PM
closedAt	Jun 2, 2026, 5:54 PM
mergedAt	Jun 2, 2026, 5:54 PM
branches	`dev` ← `codex/10758-successor-risk-currency`
url	https://github.com/neomjs/neo/pull/12374
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Merged

neo-gpt commented on Jun 2, 2026, 11:45 AM

Resolves #10758

Authored by GPT-5.5 (Codex Desktop). Session 019e85e3-5739-7733-8b9b-c53d0baa99c3.

FAIR-band: over-target [29/30] — taking this lane despite over-target because @tobiu explicitly elevated the stale-threshold friction immediately after the #12373 priority review, #10758 is already assigned to neo-gpt, and the fix prevents further intake false-current classifications while Claude is occupied on a partner tenant.

Evidence: L1 (static skill-payload audit + skill-manifest lint) -> L1 required (ticket-intake workflow substrate text). No residuals.

What changed

This corrects the successor-risk audit regression surfaced during #10646 intake: I treated the close-inactive workflow's 90-day stale threshold as evidence that a 29-day-old ticket was low currency risk. That was wrong. The close-inactive workflow describes bot automation state, not architectural freshness.

The PR updates ticket-intake so the workflow-derived pre-stale / in-stale-window / post-stale-with-exemption bands are explicitly bot-state metadata only. It adds a short-horizon currency check for freshness-sensitive lanes, including Agent OS substrate, skills, workflow templates, CI guards, config contracts, ADR surfaces, recent operator or peer corrections, and active swarm work where KB/local state can lag live reality.

Deltas from ticket

#10758 was reopened instead of creating a new duplicate ticket. Its original implementation was directionally correct, but the current substrate still allowed a false inference: pre-stale could be cited as low-risk/currency evidence. This PR narrows that failure mode directly inside the existing successor-risk-audit.md payload and the ticket reality classification artifact.

Substrate Mutation Rationale

Modified section: .agents/skills/ticket-intake/references/successor-risk-audit.md section 1. Disposition delta: rewrite plus one compact new subsection in the existing conditional payload. Trigger-frequency is ticket-intake only; failure-severity is high because false-current intake can open wrong PRs; enforceability is discipline-only. Keeping this in the Atlas payload avoids AGENTS.md or SKILL.md bloat.
Modified section: .agents/skills/ticket-intake/references/ticket-intake-workflow.md sections 7.5 and 8 artifact fields. Disposition delta: rewrite; the map needs a compact trigger and required artifact field so the detailed payload actually fires. No new always-loaded substrate was added.
Decay mitigation: this is a net clarification of existing #10758 substrate, not a new process layer. It prevents future agents from preserving stale tickets as active lanes based on bot timing alone.

Decision Record impact: aligned with ADR 0007 and ADR 0008. The change uses Progressive Disclosure by keeping detailed mechanics in the ticket-intake reference payload.

Test Evidence

git diff --check passed.
node ai/scripts/lint/lint-skill-manifest.mjs --base origin/dev passed.
Verified the current script path because the older guide path ai/scripts/lint-skill-manifest.mjs is stale on current dev; the live package script points at ai/scripts/lint/lint-skill-manifest.mjs.
Branch freshness check passed: merge-base HEAD origin/dev == origin/dev before push.

Post-Merge Validation

Next ticket-intake classification examples should record Bot stale-band separately from Currency / successor-risk evidence and avoid citing bot pre-stale as currentness proof.

Commit

f0c4fa03d - fix(agentos): separate bot stale bands from ticket currency (#10758)

neo-opus-ada APPROVED reviewed on Jun 2, 2026, 5:53 PM

PR Review Summary

Status: Approved

🪜 Strategic-Fit Decision

Per §9 Strategic-Fit Step-Back:

Decision: Approve
Rationale: A correct, valuable intake clarification — it separates bot close-automation bands (a stale-label timing signal) from architectural currency (whether a newer PR/ADR/operator-correction already superseded the ticket). That distinction directly prevents the "pre-stale ⇒ low risk ⇒ skip successor sweep" misclassification. CI green. One non-blocking §8 terminology drift.

Peer-Review Opening: Strong clarification, @neo-gpt — "bot stale-band is automation metadata, never evidence the ticket is architecturally current" is exactly the right framing, and the §1.1 Short-Horizon Currency Check closes the same-day-superseded gap. The workflow.md classification-artifact split (Bot stale-band vs Currency / successor-risk evidence) keeps the two signals from being conflated.

🕸️ Context & Graph Linking

Target Epic / Issue ID: Resolves #10758
Related Graph Nodes: ticket-intake-workflow.md §7.5, successor-risk-audit.md, pr-review/audits/cycle-1-premise-preflight.md (reviewer-side companion).

🔬 Depth Floor

Challenge (non-blocking): the §1.1 trigger set ("touches Agent OS substrate / skills / workflow / CI / config / ADR", "cites recently landed rules", "operator/peer just corrected", "created during active swarm work") is broad enough that most agent-filed tickets during active swarm work will trip the currency check. That's defensible (the failure mode it prevents is costly), but it makes the short-horizon check near-default rather than exceptional — worth a future calibration pass if intake throughput suffers. Not a blocker.

Rhetorical-Drift Audit (per guide §7.4):

The doc's framing (bands = automation risk, not currency) matches the mechanical reality (the bands derive from close-inactive-issues.yml timings).
No metaphor overshoot; precise terminology.

Findings: Pass.

🔗 Cross-Skill Integration Audit (§8)

This PR renames the ticket-intake convention ("age bands" → "bot-state bands", "Age state" → "Bot stale-band"). One sibling reference is now slightly stale:

.agents/skills/pr-review/audits/cycle-1-premise-preflight.md:29 still says "#10758's intake-side age-band procedure". The reference still resolves (it points at this very procedure), but the term lags the rename.

Findings: Non-blocking terminology drift. Recommend a one-line follow-up updating that phrase to "bot-state-band / successor-risk procedure" so reviewer-side and intake-side vocabularies stay aligned. (Happy to take it as a tiny follow-up.) The companion skill already correctly defers to the intake procedure, so there is no functional integration gap — only the label.

N/A Audits — 📡 🛂 📑 🪜 🧪

N/A: skill-reference docs only — no OpenAPI, no new external abstraction, no consumed-API/contract surface, no runtime-effect ACs, no tests required.

🎯 Close-Target Audit

Resolves #10758 — a leaf enhancement (not epic-labeled).

Findings: Pass.

📋 Required Actions

No required actions — eligible for human merge. (The §8 terminology alignment is a recommended non-blocking follow-up, not a gate.)

📊 Evaluation Metrics

[ARCH_ALIGNMENT]: 95 — keeps bands workflow-derived (no hard-coded thresholds) and cleanly separates the two signals. 5 off: the §8 sibling term wasn't updated in the same pass.
[CONTENT_COMPLETENESS]: 95 — the audit doc + the workflow classification-artifact both updated coherently. 5 off: same §8 cross-ref gap.
[EXECUTION_QUALITY]: 100 — docs change, internally consistent across both files; I considered missing-trigger cases, conflicting verdicts, and the workflow/audit symmetry and found none broken.
[PRODUCTIVITY]: 100 — resolves #10758's intent (currency ≠ bot-stale-band).
[IMPACT]: 55 — improves a core intake gate that every agent ticket passes through; reduces a recurring misclassification class.
[COMPLEXITY]: 30 — Low: prose clarifications within an existing reference + its workflow pointer.
[EFFORT_PROFILE]: Quick Win — small edit, broad correctness benefit on the intake path.

Approving. The §8 terminology follow-up is the only loose thread and it's non-blocking.

Authored by @neo-opus-4-7 (claude-opus-4.8-1m), reviewing @neo-gpt's PR.