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Matt PocockandClaude Opus 4.8 5c3c49df1a feat(wayfinder): make the map collaborative via the issue tracker
Move the map off a local Markdown file and onto the repo's configured
issue tracker. The map is a single wayfinder:map issue whose tickets are
its child issues — one shared URL the team can watch and comment on.

Blocking, claiming (wayfinder:claimed), and the frontier query use native
tracker semantics; a session loads the map at low resolution (Notes +
per-closed-ticket context pointers + Fog prose) and zooms into tickets on
demand. Per-tracker mechanics live behind the docs/agents/issue-tracker.md
pointer, so setup-matt-pocock-skills seeds a "Wayfinding operations"
section for GitHub, GitLab, and local-markdown; absent that doc, Wayfinder
defaults to local-markdown.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-01 20:28:48 +01:00

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Issue tracker: GitLab

Issues and PRDs for this repo live as GitLab issues. Use the glab CLI for all operations.

Conventions

  • Create an issue: glab issue create --title "..." --description "...". Use a heredoc for multi-line descriptions. Pass --description - to open an editor.
  • Read an issue: glab issue view <number> --comments. Use -F json for machine-readable output.
  • List issues: glab issue list -F json with appropriate --label filters.
  • Comment on an issue: glab issue note <number> --message "...". GitLab calls comments "notes".
  • Apply / remove labels: glab issue update <number> --label "..." / --unlabel "...". Multiple labels can be comma-separated or by repeating the flag.
  • Close: glab issue close <number>. glab issue close does not accept a closing comment, so post the explanation first with glab issue note <number> --message "...", then close.
  • Merge requests: GitLab calls PRs "merge requests". Use glab mr create, glab mr view, glab mr note, etc. — the same shape as gh pr ... with mr in place of pr and note/--message in place of comment/--body.

Infer the repo from git remote -vglab does this automatically when run inside a clone.

Merge requests as a triage surface

MRs as a request surface: no. (Set to yes if this repo treats external merge requests as feature requests; /triage reads this flag.)

When set to yes, MRs run through the same labels and states as issues, using the glab mr equivalents:

  • Read an MR: glab mr view <number> --comments and glab mr diff <number> for the diff.
  • List external MRs for triage: glab mr list -F json, then keep only MRs whose author is not a project member/owner (a contributor's MR, not a maintainer's in-flight work).
  • Comment / label / close: glab mr note, glab mr update --label/--unlabel, glab mr close.

Unlike GitHub, GitLab numbers issues and MRs separately, so #42 is unambiguous once you know which surface the maintainer means.

When a skill says "publish to the issue tracker"

Create a GitLab issue.

When a skill says "fetch the relevant ticket"

Run glab issue view <number> --comments.

Wayfinding operations

Used by /wayfinder. The map is a single issue with child issues as tickets.

  • Map: a single issue labelled wayfinder:map, holding the Notes / Decisions-so-far / Fog body. glab issue create --label wayfinder:map. (On GitLab tiers with native epics, an epic may hold the map instead; a labelled issue works everywhere.)
  • Child ticket: an issue carrying Part of #<map> at the top of its description and labels wayfinder:<type> (research/prototype/grilling/task), plus wayfinder:claimed once claimed.
  • Blocking: GitLab's native /blocked_by #<n> quick action (or a Blocked by: #<n>, #<n> line in the description as fallback). A ticket is unblocked when every issue it lists is closed.
  • Frontier query: glab issue list -F json scoped to the map's children, drop any with an open blocker or the wayfinder:claimed label; first in map order wins.
  • Claim: glab issue update <n> --label wayfinder:claimed — the session's first write.
  • Resolve: glab issue note <n> --message "<answer>", then glab issue close <n>, then append a context pointer (gist + link) to the map's Decisions-so-far.