jongwony/cc-plugin/intake

Intake — sorting the Triage inbox

The Triage state is where findings from any surface land. An issue a team member creates bypasses the inbox, so an emitter sets state: Triage explicitly. This skill sorts that inbox into the units of work it belongs to. It acts first and reports after, so it takes only moves that are both reversible and plain, and leaves everything else where it is.

Scope

• Writes exactly four fields on existing issues: state, project,

relatedTo, duplicateOf.

• Writes nothing else — no description, comment, section rewrite, or new

issue. An item that needs a new unit of work opened for it stays in Triage; opening that unit is a drafted write the user culls, outside this skill.

• Accepting an item out of Triage is a decision carried out, not progress

mirrored: status that PR events maintain is never set here.

Invocation

/intake [team] — team optional. Absent, resolve it from the working repo's Linear project, or ask once when that gives nothing. Linear tools are usually deferred: load list_issues, get_issue, list_projects and save_issue through ToolSearch before the first call.

Procedure

1. Read the team's issues in the Triage state (list_issues with

state: Triage), then the catalog: the root issue of each of the user's projects — the one whose description declares itself that unit's chart — in-progress projects first.

1. Classify each item, first match wins:

• Chart root — its own description opens by declaring itself a unit's

chart. It is not an inbox item: move it to Backlog.

• Plain duplicate — the same finding as an existing open issue, by the

observation each describes, not by a shared topic: set duplicateOf.

• Single plain match — exactly one catalog chart is the unit this

item's finding bears on, read against that chart's Problem and Open questions: set project to the chart's project, add relatedTo the chart's root issue, move to Backlog.

• Otherwise — no match, several, or a match that is itself a judgment

(the item would change a chart's direction, or opens a unit of its own): leave it in Triage.

1. Report once, after acting, one line per item: what it was, what moved

and why (the chart or duplicate it matched, with the sentence that matched), and the undo (its prior state and fields). Items left in Triage are listed with their candidate charts and what kept each from being plain. Where two or more of them would open the same new unit of work — the same finding, by the observation each describes, not a shared topic or label — name them together as one candidate unit, with the sentence from each that grounds it; the grouping is reported, never written.

Each firing on a clock is the same single pass.