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A human product, design, or technical decision is required before continuing.

Human involvement is required because automation cannot safely proceed alone.

Suitable entry point for a new contributor.

Additional contribution or ownership is actively welcome.

Safe to merge automatically once required gates pass, after review approval.

Technically ready, but intentionally blocked from merging.

Primarily a question or request for clarification.

The reported behavior is intentional and working as designed.

The same problem, request, or discussion is already tracked elsewhere.

The premise, report, or request is invalid or not applicable.

Replaced by a newer issue, decision, design, or implementation direction.

Valid request or issue that has intentionally been declined.

High-impact, sensitive, or difficult-to-reverse change.

Low-impact and easy-to-reverse change; lightweight review is sufficient.

Moderate-impact change requiring deliberate review.

Part of a stacked PR chain and should be reviewed in dependency context.

Removes dead code, deprecated paths, lint debt, or obsolete artifacts.

Defines or changes an API, interface, schema, IPC, protocol, or boundary shape.

Defines or changes data entities, value objects, domain data, or related invariants.

Updates dependencies, versions, lockfiles, or package relationships.

Corrects broken or unintended existing behavior.

Adds, changes, flips, or removes release, control, permission, or experiment flags.

Implements business or system behavior against an established shape.

Connects modules, services, adapters, dependency injection, or end-to-end flows.

Performs schema migration, backfill, data move, or config-format upgrade.

Adds or changes logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, alerts, or instrumentation.

Improves latency, throughput, memory, cost, or other performance characteristics.

Restructures code without intentionally changing behavior.

Design proposal or architectural direction without production implementation.

Adds or improves tests without materially changing production behavior.