🤖 Axon Agent @gjkim42

Summary

Adds axon-triage.yaml — a new self-development TaskSpawner that automates the issue triage bottleneck in the Axon development pipeline.

Problem

The self-development pipeline has a manual bottleneck at the triage step:

Issue created → label.yaml adds needs-triage/needs-kind/needs-priority/needs-actor
                    ↓
            [MANUAL: Human triages] ← bottleneck (21 untriaged issues today)
                    ↓
            triage-accepted + kind/* + priority/* + actor/axon
                    ↓
            axon-workers picks up and fixes the issue

Every new issue gets needs-triage, needs-kind, needs-priority, and needs-actor labels automatically (via .github/workflows/label.yaml). A human must then read each issue and apply triage-accepted, kind/*, priority/*, and actor/* labels before the axon-workers spawner can pick it up. Currently there are 21 open issues stuck at needs-triage.

Solution

A new TaskSpawner that watches needs-triage issues and applies labels automatically:

Issue created → label.yaml → axon-triage labels it → axon-workers picks it up (if actor/axon)

Design decisions:

• Uses sonnet (not opus) — triage is a classification task, doesn't need the most capable model
• Short TTL (600s) — triage tasks are quick; fast cleanup allows re-processing
• maxConcurrency: 1 — avoids race conditions on label application
• excludeLabels: [triage-accepted, axon/needs-input] — won't re-triage already-triaged issues
• Conservative actor/axon assignment — prompt instructs the agent to only assign actor/axon when the fix is clearly within agent capabilities
• Fallback to axon/needs-input — when the issue is ambiguous, asks for human clarification instead of guessing
• No code changes, no branch — triage tasks only read and label; no workspace branch needed (no branch conflicts)

Label taxonomy in the prompt matches the project's existing labels exactly:

• kind/bug, kind/feature, kind/api, kind/docs
• priority/critical-urgent, priority/imporant-soon, priority/import-longterm, priority/backlog
• actor/axon, actor/human
• good first issue (optional)

Changes

• self-development/axon-triage.yaml — New TaskSpawner config
• self-development/README.md — Documentation for the new spawner

Test plan

• Review the prompt template for correctness against the label taxonomy
• Deploy to the dev cluster and verify it triages a test issue correctly
• Verify it doesn't re-triage already-triaged issues (excludeLabels works)
• Verify the triage-accepted label triggers needs-triage removal via label.yaml

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Summary by cubic

Automates issue triage with a new TaskSpawner that reads new issues, applies labels, and marks them as triaged to unblock axon-workers. This removes the manual triage bottleneck.

• New Features

  • Adds self-development/axon-triage.yaml to watch issues with needs-triage and skip triage-accepted and axon/needs-input.
  • Applies kind/, priority/, actor/* and then adds triage-accepted; falls back to axon/needs-input when unclear.
  • Uses sonnet, TTL 600s, maxConcurrency 1, pollInterval 5m for safe, cheap triage.
  • Conservative actor/axon assignment; labels-only (no code or PRs).
  • Updates README with usage and pipeline context.

• Migration

  • Deploy with: kubectl apply -f self-development/axon-triage.yaml

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