Enhance triage agent to complete full triage lifecycle

[axon-agent]

Summary

• Enhance the axon-triage TaskSpawner prompt to complete the full triage lifecycle instead of stopping at classification
• Add priority assessment (priority/imporant-soon, priority/import-longterm, priority/backlog) with clear criteria
• Add actor recommendation (actor/axon vs needs-actor) with explicit criteria for what Axon can and cannot handle autonomously
• Update label management to swap needs-triage → triage-accepted and clean up needs-priority/needs-actor labels
• Preserve axon/needs-input as the human review gate — maintainer can override any recommendation before approving

Before: Triage agent classifies (kind/*) and checks validity, then stops. Maintainer must manually assess priority, assign actor, and update 3-4 labels per issue. 30 issues currently sit in this bottleneck.

After: Triage agent completes all label operations. Maintainer reviews the triage comment (now includes priority + actor justification) and removes axon/needs-input to approve — a single operation instead of 5.

Test plan

• Verify YAML is valid (kubectl apply --dry-run=client -f self-development/axon-triage.yaml)
• Deploy and observe triage output on a few issues to validate priority/actor recommendations
• Confirm axon/needs-input still blocks worker pickup (safety gate preserved)

Closes #437

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Summary by cubic

Expands the axon-triage agent to complete the full triage lifecycle (classify, validate, set priority, recommend actor, comment, and labels). Maintainers now only approve by removing axon/needs-input.

• New Features
  • Adds priority assessment with three levels and applies the label (removes needs-priority).
  • Recommends actor; applies actor/axon or leaves needs-actor using clear criteria.
  • Posts one triage comment with kind, priority, actor, status, rationale, and recommendation.
  • Swaps needs-triage to triage-accepted and cleans up labels.
  • Keeps axon/needs-input as the review gate to block worker pickup until approval.

^{Written for commit 88842ea. Summary will update on new commits.}

[cubic-dev-ai]

1 issue found across 1 file

Prompt for AI agents (unresolved issues)

Check if these issues are valid — if so, understand the root cause of each and fix them. If appropriate, use sub-agents to investigate and fix each issue separately.


<file name="self-development/axon-triage.yaml">

<violation number="1" location="self-development/axon-triage.yaml:79">
P2: Priority label names are misspelled (`imporant`/`import`), so the triage agent will apply non-standard labels instead of the intended `priority/important-*` labels.</violation>
</file>

_{Reply with feedback, questions, or to request a fix. Tag @cubic-dev-ai to re-run a review.}

[cubic-dev-ai]

P2: Priority label names are misspelled (imporant/import), so the triage agent will apply non-standard labels instead of the intended priority/important-* labels.

Prompt for AI agents

Check if this issue is valid — if so, understand the root cause and fix it. At self-development/axon-triage.yaml, line 79:

<comment>Priority label names are misspelled (`imporant`/`import`), so the triage agent will apply non-standard labels instead of the intended `priority/important-*` labels.</comment>

<file context>
@@ -74,6 +74,37 @@ spec:
 
+      ### 5. Assess priority
+      Based on your analysis, recommend a priority level:
+        - `priority/imporant-soon` — Blocks adoption, user-facing bug, security issue,
+          or directly requested by the maintainer
+        - `priority/import-longterm` — Valuable improvement but not urgent, nice-to-have
</file context>

[gjkim42]

great, but closed due to https://github.com/axon-core/axon/issues/441.
let's do this on #444