The kickoff dispatches a cheap model to rank the backlog, and the lore then made the
orchestrator re-derive its mechanical claims (deps, milestone tiering, priority order,
in-progress state) because a small model kept getting them wrong. This pays that tax down:
the mechanical checks are now CODE — GET /dependencies exclusion, LOCAL
.milestone.state/review/priority tiering (never the no-op ?milestones= filter),
(tier,priority,issue#) ordering, in-progress/parked/PR exclusion — leaving only two
JUDGMENT flags (CLAIM?, UMBRELLA?) for a human/model to resolve.
- scripts/select-queue.sh: fail-open on no-creds/unreachable; ~1.3s; shellcheck clean;
UMBRELLA? computed in the jq pass (no per-candidate body fetch).
- handoff kickoff: run the script FIRST; trust its deps/tiering/ordering, recheck only flags.
- handoff lore: the three 'cheap selector unreliable → re-derive by hand' bullets kept as the
EVIDENCE for why the script exists; the prescription is redirected to 'run the script'.
Operator-requested this session: 'rather than have the lore make us redo the selector's work,
improve the selector.'
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
