scripts/select-queue.sh ranked Renovate's Dependency Dashboard (#22) as an
ordinary `priority: low` candidate. With an all-low backlog ordered by issue
number, #22 sorted to the top and was proposed to every fresh session — a bot-
rewritten status board whose checkboxes are commands to Renovate, not work
items. A session trusting the selector's "trust the ordering" contract would
either waste a pickup or make the exact undocumented judgment call the script
exists to eliminate (this session hit it live).
Drop bot-authored issues in the same jq pass that drops PRs/in-progress/parked:
match login `renovate` plus the GitHub `name[bot]` convention so a future bot
dashboard is excluded too. A bot's actionable output is PRs (already excluded);
it never files a human work-item issue, so the whole class is never a pickup.
Also make "scan for bundle-able siblings after claiming" an explicit kickoff
step (new step 4) with a third bundle axis — shared label / adjacent subject —
so a session sweeps small independent same-label issues together (e.g. this
change's own #553 + #512 ci-cd hygiene bundle) instead of closing one at a time.
Verified: selector no longer lists #22; genuine backlog issues still rank; the
only bot-authored open issue is #22. shellcheck clean.
Fixes#553
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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>