modern-python · lesnik512 · Sep 19, 2026 · Sep 19, 2026
diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
@@ -83,7 +83,14 @@ description, and PyPI does not rewrite relative links, so a relative one 404s on
 
 ## Agent skills
 
-- **Issues and specs** — GitHub Issues on `modern-python/httpware`, via `gh`:
-  [`docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`](docs/agents/issue-tracker.md)
-- **Triage labels** — the five canonical roles: [`docs/agents/triage-labels.md`](docs/agents/triage-labels.md)
-- **Domain docs** — single-context, `CONTEXT.md` + `docs/adr/`: [`docs/agents/domain.md`](docs/agents/domain.md)
+### Issue tracker
+
+GitHub issues on `modern-python/httpware`, via `gh`. See `docs/agents/issue-tracker.md`.
+
+### Triage labels
+
+The five canonical roles, each label string equal to its name. See `docs/agents/triage-labels.md`.
+
+### Domain docs
+
+Single-context: `CONTEXT.md` and `docs/adr/` at the repo root. See `docs/agents/domain.md`.
diff --git a/docs/agents/domain.md b/docs/agents/domain.md
@@ -1,46 +1,38 @@
 # Domain Docs
 
-How the engineering skills should consume this repo's domain documentation when exploring the
-codebase. This repo is **single-context**.
+How the engineering skills should consume this repo's domain documentation when exploring the codebase.
 
 ## Before exploring, read these
 
-- **`CONTEXT.md`** at the repo root: what this repo is, and the glossary.
-- **`docs/adr/`**: read the decision records that touch the area you're about to work in.
+- **`CONTEXT.md`** at the repo root.
+- **`docs/adr/`**: read ADRs that touch the area you're about to work in.
 
-If any of these files don't exist, **proceed silently**. Don't flag their absence; don't suggest
-creating them upfront. The `/domain-modeling` skill creates them lazily when terms or decisions
-actually get resolved.
+If any of these files don't exist, **proceed silently**. Don't flag their absence; don't suggest creating them upfront. The `/domain-modeling` skill (reached via `/grill-with-docs` and `/improve-codebase-architecture`) creates them lazily when terms or decisions actually get resolved.
 
 ## File structure
 
+Single-context repo:
+
 ```
 /
 ├── CONTEXT.md
 ├── docs/adr/
-│   ├── 0001-….md
-│   └── 0002-….md
-├── src/httpware/
-└── tests/
+│   ├── 0001-no-opentelemetry-middleware.md
+│   └── 0002-sync-async-parity-is-hand-maintained.md
+└── src/
 ```
 
-There is no `CONTEXT-MAP.md` and no per-package `CONTEXT.md`: one package, one context. There is
-also no `architecture/` and no `planning/` — the present is the source, and what must stay true is
-a test whose docstring opens `INVARIANT:`.
-
 ## Use the glossary's vocabulary
 
-When your output names a domain concept (in an issue title, a refactor proposal, a hypothesis, a
-test name), use the term as defined in `CONTEXT.md`. Don't drift to synonyms the glossary explicitly
-avoids: write `middleware` and not `hook`, `terminal` and not `transport`, `decoder` and not
-`adapter`, `cap` and not `limit`.
+When your output names a domain concept (in an issue title, a refactor proposal, a hypothesis, a test name), use the term as defined in `CONTEXT.md`. Don't drift to synonyms the glossary explicitly avoids.
 
-If the concept you need isn't in the glossary yet, that's a signal: either you're inventing language
-the project doesn't use (reconsider) or there's a real gap (note it for `/domain-modeling`).
+If the concept you need isn't in the glossary yet, that's a signal: either you're inventing language the project doesn't use (reconsider) or there's a real gap (note it for `/domain-modeling`).
+
+## Flag ADR conflicts
 
-## Where a new fact goes
+If your output contradicts an existing ADR, surface it explicitly rather than silently overriding:
 
-Run the admission check in `AGENTS.md` before writing anything down.
+> _Contradicts ADR-0001 (no opentelemetry middleware), but worth reopening because…_
 
 ## Link style inside `docs/`
 
@@ -52,10 +44,3 @@ working in both renderings:
 - **Never link from a file inside `docs/` to a path outside it.** It cannot resolve in both
   renderings: MkDocs emits `links.not_found` and ships the link verbatim, so it 404s on the site.
   Cite `src/httpware/...`, `tests/...`, and root files as inline code, never as links.
-
-## Flag ADR conflicts
-
-If your output contradicts an existing decision record, surface it explicitly rather than silently
-overriding:
-
-> _Contradicts ADR-NNNN (its title), but worth reopening because…_
diff --git a/docs/agents/issue-tracker.md b/docs/agents/issue-tracker.md
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Issue tracker: GitHub
 
-Issues and PRDs for this repo live as GitHub issues. Use the `gh` CLI for all operations.
+Issues and specs for this repo live as GitHub issues. Use the `gh` CLI for all operations.
 
 ## Conventions
 
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ Issues and PRDs for this repo live as GitHub issues. Use the `gh` CLI for all op
 - **Apply / remove labels**: `gh issue edit <number> --add-label "..."` / `--remove-label "..."`
 - **Close**: `gh issue close <number> --comment "..."`
 
-Infer the repo from `git remote -v` — `gh` does this automatically when run inside a clone. This repo's remote is `modern-python/httpware`.
+Infer the repo from `git remote -v`; `gh` does this automatically when run inside a clone.
 
 ## Pull requests as a triage surface
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ When set to `yes`, PRs run through the same labels and states as issues, using t
 - **List external PRs for triage**: `gh pr list --state open --json number,title,body,labels,author,authorAssociation,comments` then keep only `authorAssociation` of `CONTRIBUTOR`, `FIRST_TIME_CONTRIBUTOR`, or `NONE` (drop `OWNER`/`MEMBER`/`COLLABORATOR`).
 - **Comment / label / close**: `gh pr comment`, `gh pr edit --add-label`/`--remove-label`, `gh pr close`.
 
-GitHub shares one number space across issues and PRs, so a bare `#42` may be either — resolve with `gh pr view 42` and fall back to `gh issue view 42`.
+GitHub shares one number space across issues and PRs, so a bare `#42` may be either: resolve with `gh pr view 42` and fall back to `gh issue view 42`.
 
 ## When a skill says "publish to the issue tracker"
 
@@ -32,3 +32,14 @@ Create a GitHub issue.
 ## When a skill says "fetch the relevant ticket"
 
 Run `gh 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. `gh issue create --label wayfinder:map`.
+- **Child ticket**: an issue linked to the map as a GitHub sub-issue (`gh api` on the sub-issues endpoint). Where sub-issues aren't enabled, add the child to a task list in the map body and put `Part of #<map>` at the top of the child body. Labels: `wayfinder:<type>` (`research`/`prototype`/`grilling`/`task`). Once claimed, the ticket is assigned to the driving dev.
+- **Blocking**: GitHub's **native issue dependencies**, the canonical, UI-visible representation. Add an edge with `gh api --method POST repos/<owner>/<repo>/issues/<child>/dependencies/blocked_by -F issue_id=<blocker-db-id>`, where `<blocker-db-id>` is the blocker's numeric **database id** (`gh api repos/<owner>/<repo>/issues/<n> --jq .id`, _not_ the `#number` or `node_id`). GitHub reports `issue_dependencies_summary.blocked_by` (open blockers only, the live gate). Where dependencies aren't available, fall back to a `Blocked by: #<n>, #<n>` line at the top of the child body. A ticket is unblocked when every blocker is closed.
+- **Frontier query**: list the map's open children (`gh issue list --state open`, scoped to the map's sub-issues / task list), drop any with an open blocker (`issue_dependencies_summary.blocked_by > 0`, or an open issue in the `Blocked by` line) or an assignee; first in map order wins.
+- **Claim**: `gh issue edit <n> --add-assignee @me`, the session's first write.
+- **Resolve**: `gh issue comment <n> --body "<answer>"`, then `gh issue close <n>`, then append a context pointer (gist + link) to the map's Decisions-so-far.
diff --git a/docs/agents/triage-labels.md b/docs/agents/triage-labels.md
@@ -2,16 +2,14 @@
 
 The skills speak in terms of five canonical triage roles. This file maps those roles to the actual label strings used in this repo's issue tracker.
 
-| Canonical role             | Label in our tracker | Meaning                                  |
+| Label in mattpocock/skills | Label in our tracker | Meaning                                  |
 | -------------------------- | -------------------- | ---------------------------------------- |
 | `needs-triage`             | `needs-triage`       | Maintainer needs to evaluate this issue  |
 | `needs-info`               | `needs-info`         | Waiting on reporter for more information |
 | `ready-for-agent`          | `ready-for-agent`    | Fully specified, ready for an AFK agent  |
 | `ready-for-human`          | `ready-for-human`    | Requires human implementation            |
 | `wontfix`                  | `wontfix`            | Will not be actioned                     |
 
-`wontfix` already exists in this repo's GitHub labels. The other four are created on first use by `/triage` (`gh label create <name>`).
-
 When a skill mentions a role (e.g. "apply the AFK-ready triage label"), use the corresponding label string from this table.
 
 Edit the right-hand column to match whatever vocabulary you actually use.