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new 5905ef77 docs: adopt "Agentic <Mode>" terminology + ASF-family metadata (apache/magpie-site#21) (#612)
5905ef77 is described below
commit 5905ef7776a5fc746f04a3aa40b29ee0f11fca98
Author: Jarek Potiuk <ja...@potiuk.com>
AuthorDate: Mon Jun 29 03:41:30 2026 +0200
docs: adopt "Agentic <Mode>" terminology + ASF-family metadata (apache/magpie-site#21) (#612)
Apply the terminology changes from apache/magpie-site#21 across the docs:
- Display the five modes as "Agentic <Mode>" wherever they appear as a
concept name: Agentic Triage / Agentic Mentoring / Agentic Drafting /
Agentic Pairing, and Auto-merge renamed to Agentic Autonomous.
- The machine identifier stays bare: skill `mode:` frontmatter and the
canonical "Modes at a glance" identifier column in docs/modes.md keep
Triage/Mentoring/Drafting/Pairing (validated against each other), with
"Agentic <Mode>" as the display name. The four stable modes keep their
section headings/anchors; Auto-merge -> Agentic Autonomous gets the full
rename (heading, #agentic-autonomous anchor, TOC, cross-refs).
- "Narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge" -> "limited fix-and-merge" in the
canonical terminology spots (docs/modes.md, RFC-AI-0004 section).
Add ASF-relatedness metadata for skill families (mirrors the site PR's
`asf: true/false` flag): release-management and contributor-growth are
ASF-specific; the other seven families are generic. Recorded as a
greppable `asf: true|false` scope banner under each docs/<family>/README.md
H1, a Scope column in the family tables (README.md, docs/index.md), and
reconciled with tools/spec-loop/specs/project-agnosticism.md.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <no...@anthropic.com>
---
MISSION.md | 30 ++++----
PRINCIPLES.md | 2 +-
README.md | 24 ++++---
docs/confidentiality.md | 2 +-
docs/contributor-growth/README.md | 23 +++---
docs/index.md | 44 +++++++-----
docs/issue-management/README.md | 13 ++--
docs/mentoring/README.md | 19 ++---
docs/mentoring/spec.md | 40 +++++------
docs/mode-economics.md | 48 ++++++-------
docs/modes.md | 84 ++++++++++++----------
docs/pairing/README.md | 15 ++--
docs/pr-management/README.md | 5 +-
docs/release-management/README.md | 41 ++++++-----
docs/release-management/process.md | 34 ++++-----
docs/release-management/spec.md | 42 +++++------
docs/repo-health/README.md | 3 +
docs/rfcs/RFC-AI-0004.md | 8 +--
docs/security/README.md | 5 ++
docs/security/how-to-fix-a-security-issue.md | 2 +-
docs/security/threat-model.md | 48 ++++++-------
docs/setup/README.md | 3 +
docs/utilities/README.md | 8 ++-
projects/_template/good-first-issue-config.md | 2 +-
projects/_template/mentoring-config.md | 10 +--
skills/audit-finding-fix/SKILL.md | 2 +-
skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md | 2 +-
skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md | 12 ++--
skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md | 14 ++--
skills/mentoring-welcome/welcome-templates.md | 2 +-
skills/pairing-multi-agent-review/SKILL.md | 6 +-
skills/pairing-self-review/SKILL.md | 2 +-
skills/pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md | 14 ++--
skills/pr-management-mentor/comment-templates.md | 4 +-
skills/pr-management-mentor/tone-checks.md | 6 +-
skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md | 2 +-
skills/workflow-security-audit/SKILL.md | 2 +-
tools/spec-loop/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md | 22 +++---
tools/spec-loop/PROMPT_plan.md | 2 +-
tools/spec-loop/specs/README.md | 2 +-
tools/spec-loop/specs/contributor-growth.md | 6 +-
tools/spec-loop/specs/drafting-mode.md | 6 +-
tools/spec-loop/specs/issue-management-family.md | 10 +--
tools/spec-loop/specs/mentoring-mode.md | 12 ++--
tools/spec-loop/specs/overview.md | 12 ++--
tools/spec-loop/specs/pairing-mode.md | 22 +++---
tools/spec-loop/specs/project-agnosticism.md | 27 +++++--
.../specs/release-management-lifecycle.md | 6 +-
tools/spec-loop/specs/repo-health-family.md | 10 +--
tools/spec-loop/specs/reviewer-routing.md | 8 +--
tools/spec-loop/specs/security-issue-lifecycle.md | 2 +-
tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md | 10 +--
52 files changed, 424 insertions(+), 356 deletions(-)
diff --git a/MISSION.md b/MISSION.md
index ef08d56b..0bc65da2 100644
--- a/MISSION.md
+++ b/MISSION.md
@@ -64,13 +64,13 @@ Open-source projects share the same shape of problem: contributors keep arriving
Four design choices set the project apart from "just bolt a code-review bot on it":
-**Project autonomy is the structural starting point — and "project" includes non-ASF.** Five modes — **Triage**, **Mentoring**, **Drafting** (agent-authored fix with human review), **Pairing** (developer-side development-cycle skills with mentorship intrinsic), and **Auto-merge** (narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge) — ship as separate, independently-toggleable skills. Each project picks the modes that match its culture and risk tolerance. ASF integrations (private lists, Vulnogram CVE flows, [...]
+**Project autonomy is the structural starting point — and "project" includes non-ASF.** Five modes — **Agentic Triage**, **Agentic Mentoring**, **Agentic Drafting** (agent-authored fix with human review), **Agentic Pairing** (developer-side development-cycle skills with mentorship intrinsic), and **Agentic Autonomous** (narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge) — ship as separate, independently-toggleable skills. Each project picks the modes that match its culture and risk tolerance. ASF integratio [...]
**Security-issue handling is a load-bearing use case, not a footnote on triage.** The work that became Magpie started as a framework for handling ASF security reports — high-stakes, high-procedure, every-step-needs-an-audit-trail flows that turn out to be exactly what agent-assisted-with-human-gates is good at. Every mode has to clear the security-flow bar (private content stays private, every outbound draft has a human signature, every state change is logged) before it ships. Projects w [...]
-**Mentoring is a first-class mode, not a side-effect of triage.** The lever the ASF — and the wider open-source world — actually needs and the one off-the-shelf agent tooling skips. Meets new contributors where they are, explains conventions, points at the relevant prior PR, asks the clarifying question *before* a reviewer burns time on it. This is where the Responsible AI Initiative's contributor-empowerment goal gets operationalised: the mode that produces the outcomes RAI is trying to [...]
+**Agentic Mentoring is a first-class mode, not a side-effect of triage.** The lever the ASF — and the wider open-source world — actually needs and the one off-the-shelf agent tooling skips. Meets new contributors where they are, explains conventions, points at the relevant prior PR, asks the clarifying question *before* a reviewer burns time on it. This is where the Responsible AI Initiative's contributor-empowerment goal gets operationalised: the mode that produces the outcomes RAI is t [...]
-**Development-cycle skills sit alongside maintainership skills, with mentorship intrinsic to them.** Maintainers also write code; contributors live the development side of every project. The same agentic primitives that triage an inbound report or mentor a new contributor compose into a committer's or contributor's own development cycle: multi-agent review pipelines that catch issues before submission, self-review patterns that pre-flight a PR against project conventions, scoped agent-dr [...]
+**Development-cycle skills sit alongside maintainership skills, with mentorship intrinsic to them.** Maintainers also write code; contributors live the development side of every project. The same agentic primitives that triage an inbound report or mentor a new contributor compose into a committer's or contributor's own development cycle: multi-agent review pipelines that catch issues before submission, self-review patterns that pre-flight a PR against project conventions, scoped agent-dr [...]
## Scope boundaries — what Magpie is, and the non-goals
@@ -86,20 +86,20 @@ Magpie's scope is broad on *capability* and deliberately narrow on *authority*.
**Duplication is embraced where it buys decoupling.** Working across distributed, independent PMCs — and across foundations — makes some duplication inevitable, and agentic tooling makes it cheap: an agent can reconcile two near-identical skills on demand, so the price of keeping them separate is low and the coupling avoided is real. Magpie does not chase DRY across organisational boundaries. The one place divergence is *not* tolerated is the **safety baseline** — the untrusted-content-i [...]
-**On mentoring specifically:** Magpie ships mentoring *skills* — reusable, machine-assisted tooling any project can adopt — it does not own the community-development mentoring function, which remains ComDev's (and, for podlings, the Incubator's) for ASF projects. The Mentoring mode is a tool in the box, not a claim on the role. The same framing applies to every mode: Magpie supplies the agentic capability; the project, and where relevant the responsible ASF body, keeps the policy.
+**On mentoring specifically:** Magpie ships mentoring *skills* — reusable, machine-assisted tooling any project can adopt — it does not own the community-development mentoring function, which remains ComDev's (and, for podlings, the Incubator's) for ASF projects. The Agentic Mentoring mode is a tool in the box, not a claim on the role. The same framing applies to every mode: Magpie supplies the agentic capability; the project, and where relevant the responsible ASF body, keeps the policy.
## Initial Goals
- Stand up `github.com/apache/magpie` with project skeleton, CI, and contributor docs.
- Provision standard ASF infrastructure: `private@`, `dev@`, `commits@`; GitHub Issues; site at `magpie.apache.org`.
-- Get **Triage**, **Mentoring**, and **Drafting** running against **3–4 friendly pilots within 3 months** — at least one ASF PMC running the full security-issue flow (Airflow, given the project's lineage), one ASF PMC running just Triage + Mentoring (Arrow or ATR), and **at least one non-ASF project from day one** (Python core has folks interested). Non-ASF in the first cohort, not later — the project-governance-agnosticism claim is only worth what it can prove.
+- Get **Agentic Triage**, **Agentic Mentoring**, and **Agentic Drafting** running against **3–4 friendly pilots within 3 months** — at least one ASF PMC running the full security-issue flow (Airflow, given the project's lineage), one ASF PMC running just Agentic Triage + Agentic Mentoring (Arrow or ATR), and **at least one non-ASF project from day one** (Python core has folks interested). Non-ASF in the first cohort, not later — the project-governance-agnosticism claim is only worth what [...]
- Cut a first Apache release through the standard process within 3 months of resolution adoption, with artefacts usable directly by non-ASF adopters (no ASF-only assumption baked into the install path).
-- Wire **Triage**, **Mentoring**, and **Drafting** up to Apache Verum and Apache Caer findings, and to at least one non-ASF audit-tool equivalent (a CodeQL output stream is the likely first non-ASF case).
-- **Ship at least one Pairing skill family** in v1, with mentorship hooks intrinsic — multi-agent review or pre-flight self-review — demonstrated against a friendly-pilot project's contributor development cycle, so the maintainership-and-development scope claim and the human-relationship-preservation claim both have working code to point at.
+- Wire **Agentic Triage**, **Agentic Mentoring**, and **Agentic Drafting** up to Apache Verum and Apache Caer findings, and to at least one non-ASF audit-tool equivalent (a CodeQL output stream is the likely first non-ASF case).
+- **Ship at least one Agentic Pairing skill family** in v1, with mentorship hooks intrinsic — multi-agent review or pre-flight self-review — demonstrated against a friendly-pilot project's contributor development cycle, so the maintainership-and-development scope claim and the human-relationship-preservation claim both have working code to point at.
- Settle on a contributor-sentiment evaluation methodology with Apache Plumb (separate proposal). Eval covers both ASF and non-ASF cohorts so the data isn't an internal-ASF artefact.
- **Ship the privacy and security posture** as a release-blocking part of v1 — sandbox setup, clean-env wrapper, privacy-LLM gate, PII redactor, signed releases, pinned-tools manifest. Not a follow-up.
- **Ship the maintainer-education stream** alongside v1 — pattern catalogue, "your first skill" path, first scheduled workshops. The platform is only as adoptable as the docs that go with it.
-- **Validate vendor-neutrality** in v1 pilots: at least one project running Triage, Mentoring, and Drafting against a frontier-model backend, one against fully-local inference (Ollama / vLLM), one against an Apache-hosted or Apache-aligned endpoint as it becomes available.
+- **Validate vendor-neutrality** in v1 pilots: at least one project running Agentic Triage, Agentic Mentoring, and Agentic Drafting against a frontier-model backend, one against fully-local inference (Ollama / vLLM), one against an Apache-hosted or Apache-aligned endpoint as it becomes available.
## Technical scope
@@ -107,15 +107,15 @@ A platform substrate — issue and PR ingestion, GitHub API write-back, conversa
[`docs/modes.md`](docs/modes.md) is the honest snapshot mapping each mode below to the skills currently shipped, with a `stable / experimental / proposed / off` status legend.
-**Triage** — for issues, security reports, and PRs. *On the security side:* spots inbound reports, classifies against prior triaged cases, surfaces likely duplicates, identifies anything that should not have been filed publicly, proposes initial routing to the security team. *On the regular side:* suggests labels, spots duplicates, links related discussions, proposes routing. Every output is a suggestion the human signs off on; nothing lands without review. Lowest risk surface.
+**Agentic Triage** — for issues, security reports, and PRs. *On the security side:* spots inbound reports, classifies against prior triaged cases, surfaces likely duplicates, identifies anything that should not have been filed publicly, proposes initial routing to the security team. *On the regular side:* suggests labels, spots duplicates, links related discussions, proposes routing. Every output is a suggestion the human signs off on; nothing lands without review. Lowest risk surface.
-**Mentoring** — conversational. Joins issue and PR threads in a deliberately teaching register: clarifying questions, pointers to project conventions and docs, an explanation of *why* a change is being asked for, paired examples from similar prior PRs, clean hand-off to a human reviewer when the question exceeds what an agent should answer. The differentiator and the highest-value project-side mode — where the Responsible AI Initiative's empowerment outcome lives.
+**Agentic Mentoring** — conversational. Joins issue and PR threads in a deliberately teaching register: clarifying questions, pointers to project conventions and docs, an explanation of *why* a change is being asked for, paired examples from similar prior PRs, clean hand-off to a human reviewer when the question exceeds what an agent should answer. The differentiator and the highest-value project-side mode — where the Responsible AI Initiative's empowerment outcome lives.
-**Drafting** — agent-authored fixes with human review. The agent drafts a fix for a well-scoped problem (a tracked issue, a triaged security report with team consensus on scope, an Apache Verum or Apache Caer finding, a failing test with an obvious cause, a documentation hole) and opens a PR. Every PR is reviewed and merged by a human committer; the agent never merges its own work. For security PRs the public surface strips CVE / private context per the project's disclosure policy, so th [...]
+**Agentic Drafting** — agent-authored fixes with human review. The agent drafts a fix for a well-scoped problem (a tracked issue, a triaged security report with team consensus on scope, an Apache Verum or Apache Caer finding, a failing test with an obvious cause, a documentation hole) and opens a PR. Every PR is reviewed and merged by a human committer; the agent never merges its own work. For security PRs the public surface strips CVE / private context per the project's disclosure polic [...]
-**Pairing** — developer-side development-cycle skills, mentorship intrinsic. Beyond the project-side modes above — which describe the project's agent presence on its own infrastructure — the platform also ships skills that maintainers and contributors run in their *own* development cycle: multi-agent review pipelines, self-review and pre-flight patterns, scoped fix drafting under the developer's driver's seat. Pairing skills don't make state changes on behalf of the project; they're the [...]
+**Agentic Pairing** — developer-side development-cycle skills, mentorship intrinsic. Beyond the project-side modes above — which describe the project's agent presence on its own infrastructure — the platform also ships skills that maintainers and contributors run in their *own* development cycle: multi-agent review pipelines, self-review and pre-flight patterns, scoped fix drafting under the developer's driver's seat. Agentic Pairing skills don't make state changes on behalf of the proje [...]
-**Auto-merge** — narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge. Auto-merge restricted to objectively boring change classes — lint fixes, dependency bumps inside an allow-list, license-header insertion, formatting, broken-link repair. Per-project AND per-class opt-in; every auto-merged change is reversibly logged. **Not turned on** until Triage, Mentoring, Drafting, **and Pairing** have been running for two quarters and contributor-sentiment data says the project is healthier, not just faster. Security-c [...]
+**Agentic Autonomous** — narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge. Agentic Autonomous restricted to objectively boring change classes — lint fixes, dependency bumps inside an allow-list, license-header insertion, formatting, broken-link repair. Per-project AND per-class opt-in; every auto-merged change is reversibly logged. **Not turned on** until Agentic Triage, Agentic Mentoring, Agentic Drafting, **and Agentic Pairing** have been running for two quarters and contributor-sentiment data says the p [...]
The substrate also handles per-project config (which modes are on, eligible change classes, who reviews, how disputes route, where security reports come from, where audit findings come from, what the release process expects), full audit logging and rollback for every agent-authored change — security and non-security alike — and an integration hook for the Apache Plumb eval framework so the contributor-empowerment claim has measurable data behind it.
@@ -172,7 +172,7 @@ The ASF mission line — *"to provide software for the public good"* — has alw
## Initial PMC composition (target)
-PMC composition matters more than most because the project's social stakes are higher than its technical stakes. The PMC will be filled from existing ASF members, and potentially Apache Airflow PMC members where implementation of Triage, Mentoring, and Drafting is already live and used — coordinated with Membership before the resolution is adopted.
+PMC composition matters more than most because the project's social stakes are higher than its technical stakes. The PMC will be filled from existing ASF members, and potentially Apache Airflow PMC members where implementation of Agentic Triage, Agentic Mentoring, and Agentic Drafting is already live and used — coordinated with Membership before the resolution is adopted.
- **Size:** 7 or more members.
- **Diversity:** at least three distinct organisational affiliations; no single employer holding a majority.
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ The contributor experience is the most sensitive surface in any open-source proj
The project commits to:
-- **Mentoring-first sequencing** — Triage and Mentoring before Drafting and Pairing; Auto-merge last.
+- **Agentic Mentoring-first sequencing** — Agentic Triage and Agentic Mentoring before Agentic Drafting and Agentic Pairing; Agentic Autonomous last.
- **ASF Privacy and Legal involvement from project start**, not retrospectively.
- **Contributor-sentiment evidence as a graduation criterion** for new automation modes alongside the standard technical-maturity criteria.
- **Tight feedback loop** — the SKILL-based approach with human oversight lets agentic skills self-update from maintainer / triager feedback and contributor responses; mistakes get corrected and message tone is tuned to the communication style the PMC selects.
diff --git a/PRINCIPLES.md b/PRINCIPLES.md
index c9cef510..a4d38029 100644
--- a/PRINCIPLES.md
+++ b/PRINCIPLES.md
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Skills produce drafts. Tool calls enforce schemas. Humans or deterministic check
## 6. The human is always in the loop, until they choose otherwise
-Every agent-authored output (comment, label, draft, issue, PR) is a proposal a human signs off on. The agent never performs a merge of its own work, nor unilaterally enables auto-merge on it. Auto-merge, where it exists, is narrow, opt-in per project AND per change class, and never touches security-class changes. **The opt-out never extends to communication aimed at a human: any outbound message a person will read as if a maintainer wrote it (reporter mail, PR or issue comment, review re [...]
+Every agent-authored output (comment, label, draft, issue, PR) is a proposal a human signs off on. The agent never performs a merge of its own work, nor unilaterally enables auto-merge on it. Agentic Autonomous, where it exists, is narrow, opt-in per project AND per change class, and never touches security-class changes. **The opt-out never extends to communication aimed at a human: any outbound message a person will read as if a maintainer wrote it (reporter mail, PR or issue comment, r [...]
## 7. Contributor sentiment gates every mode graduation
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 2bca92a9..d97167c6 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -166,15 +166,21 @@ The **Modes** column maps each family to the MISSION agent-assistance
taxonomy — see [`docs/modes.md`](docs/modes.md) for what each mode
means and which modes are still proposed vs. shipping today.
-| Family | Modes | Purpose | Detail |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| [**setup**](docs/setup/README.md) | (infra) | Isolated agent setup, framework adoption + maintenance, shared-config sync. The prerequisite — at minimum the `setup` skill itself runs out of this family. | 6 skills, [`docs/setup/`](docs/setup/) |
-| [**security**](docs/security/README.md) | A, C | 16-step security-issue handling lifecycle — from `security@` import through CVE publication, including state sync. Maintainer-only. | 9 skills, [`docs/security/`](docs/security/) |
-| **pr-management** | A | Maintainer-facing PR-queue management — triage, stats, and deep code review. | 3 skills, [`docs/pr-management/`](docs/pr-management/README.md) |
-| [**release-management**](docs/release-management/README.md) | A, C | 14-step ASF release lifecycle, planning issue, RC cut + sign, `[VOTE]` thread, tally, promote, `[ANNOUNCE]`, archive, audit log. Agent never holds the RM's signing key and never publishes the release. **Proposed**, spec-first, like Mentoring; skill code lands in follow-up PRs. | 10 skills proposed, [`docs/release-management/`](docs/release-management/) |
-| [**mentoring**](docs/mentoring/README.md) | Mentoring | Contributor mentoring — spec and tone guide in place; first skill (`pr-management-mentor`) shipping. **Experimental** — shape may change as adopter pilots and contributor-sentiment evaluation land. | 1 skill, [`docs/mentoring/`](docs/mentoring/README.md) |
-| **issue** | A, Triage | Issue lifecycle management — triage, bug reproduction, fix drafting, and backlog re-assessment against the current branch. | 5 skills |
-| **utilities** | (meta) | Framework meta-skills: author or update skills (`write-skill`); print a live index of all available skills (`list-skills`). | 2 skills |
+Most families work on **any** project, ASF or not. Families marked
+**🪶 ASF-specific** in the **Scope** column encode Apache Software Foundation
+processes (the release lifecycle, the contributor-to-committer path) and assume
+an ASF adopter profile by default — non-ASF projects adopt them through the
+adapter/config layer.
+
+| Family | Modes | Scope | Purpose | Detail |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| [**setup**](docs/setup/README.md) | (infra) | Any project | Isolated agent setup, framework adoption + maintenance, shared-config sync. The prerequisite — at minimum the `setup` skill itself runs out of this family. | 6 skills, [`docs/setup/`](docs/setup/) |
+| [**security**](docs/security/README.md) | A, C | Any project | 16-step security-issue handling lifecycle — from `security@` import through CVE publication, including state sync. Maintainer-only. | 9 skills, [`docs/security/`](docs/security/) |
+| **pr-management** | A | Any project | Maintainer-facing PR-queue management — triage, stats, and deep code review. | 3 skills, [`docs/pr-management/`](docs/pr-management/README.md) |
+| [**release-management**](docs/release-management/README.md) | A, C | 🪶 ASF-specific | 14-step ASF release lifecycle, planning issue, RC cut + sign, `[VOTE]` thread, tally, promote, `[ANNOUNCE]`, archive, audit log. Agent never holds the RM's signing key and never publishes the release. **Proposed**, spec-first, like Agentic Mentoring; skill code lands in follow-up PRs. | 10 skills proposed, [`docs/release-management/`](docs/release-management/) |
+| [**mentoring**](docs/mentoring/README.md) | Agentic Mentoring | Any project | Contributor mentoring — spec and tone guide in place; first skill (`pr-management-mentor`) shipping. **Experimental** — shape may change as adopter pilots and contributor-sentiment evaluation land. | 1 skill, [`docs/mentoring/`](docs/mentoring/README.md) |
+| **issue** | A, Agentic Triage | Any project | Issue lifecycle management — triage, bug reproduction, fix drafting, and backlog re-assessment against the current branch. | 5 skills |
+| **utilities** | (meta) | Any project | Framework meta-skills: author or update skills (`write-skill`); print a live index of all available skills (`list-skills`). | 2 skills |
## Maintenance
diff --git a/docs/confidentiality.md b/docs/confidentiality.md
index 26946011..12bc5839 100644
--- a/docs/confidentiality.md
+++ b/docs/confidentiality.md
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
# Confidentiality — drafting elaboration
-Drafting-time elaboration of the tracker-confidentiality rules. The
+Agentic Drafting-time elaboration of the tracker-confidentiality rules. The
load-bearing rules — the three-layer model (identifiers public, contents
private, security-framing embargoed), the "what public surfaces must not
contain" checklist, the content scrub, and "other ASF projects" — live
diff --git a/docs/contributor-growth/README.md b/docs/contributor-growth/README.md
index 5e6990d6..303d4232 100644
--- a/docs/contributor-growth/README.md
+++ b/docs/contributor-growth/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
# Contributor-growth skill family
+> **Scope — `asf: true` · 🪶 ASF-specific.** This family encodes Apache Software
+> Foundation processes (the contributor-to-committer path) and assumes an ASF
+> adopter profile by default. Non-ASF projects can still adopt it through the
+> adapter/config layer, but it carries ASF assumptions the generic families do not.
+
Maintainer-facing skills that span the contributor-to-committer path:
welcoming first-time contributors, keeping the issue backlog newcomer-
ready, tracking contribution activity, assembling nomination evidence,
@@ -48,11 +53,11 @@ without explicit maintainer confirmation.
| Skill | Mode | Status |
|---|---|---|
-| [`mentoring-welcome`](../../skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md) | Mentoring | experimental |
-| [`good-first-issue-author`](../../skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md) | Mentoring | experimental |
-| [`contributor-activity-sweep`](../../skills/contributor-activity-sweep/SKILL.md) | Triage | experimental |
-| [`contributor-nomination`](../../skills/contributor-nomination/SKILL.md) | Triage | experimental |
-| [`committer-onboarding`](../../skills/committer-onboarding/SKILL.md) | Triage | experimental |
+| [`mentoring-welcome`](../../skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md) | Agentic Mentoring | experimental |
+| [`good-first-issue-author`](../../skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md) | Agentic Mentoring | experimental |
+| [`contributor-activity-sweep`](../../skills/contributor-activity-sweep/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | experimental |
+| [`contributor-nomination`](../../skills/contributor-nomination/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | experimental |
+| [`committer-onboarding`](../../skills/committer-onboarding/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | experimental |
All five skills are `experimental`; no adopter has run the full
contributor-to-committer path under evaluation conditions yet.
@@ -61,7 +66,7 @@ contributor-to-committer path under evaluation conditions yet.
This family sits **alongside** two overlapping skill families:
-- [`docs/mentoring/README.md`](../mentoring/README.md) — the Mentoring
+- [`docs/mentoring/README.md`](../mentoring/README.md) — the Agentic Mentoring
mode spec and family overview. `mentoring-welcome` and
`good-first-issue-author` carry `mode: Mentoring` and are also
listed in that spec. The families cross-reference each other; a later
@@ -113,10 +118,10 @@ per-project policy knobs before a skill can safely propose anything):
## Cross-references
- [`docs/modes.md` § Triage](../modes.md#triage) — mode taxonomy the
- three Triage-mode family skills declare against.
+ three Agentic Triage-mode family skills declare against.
- [`docs/modes.md` § Mentoring](../modes.md#mentoring) — mode taxonomy
- the two Mentoring-mode family skills declare against.
-- [`docs/mentoring/README.md`](../mentoring/README.md) — the Mentoring
+ the two Agentic Mentoring-mode family skills declare against.
+- [`docs/mentoring/README.md`](../mentoring/README.md) — the Agentic Mentoring
mode family overview, which cross-references `mentoring-welcome` and
`good-first-issue-author`.
- [`projects/_template/README.md`](../../projects/_template/README.md) —
diff --git a/docs/index.md b/docs/index.md
index cadb30b6..76421a20 100644
--- a/docs/index.md
+++ b/docs/index.md
@@ -32,13 +32,13 @@ Five **modes** describe what the agent can do, from low-risk to high:
| Mode | What it does | Status |
|---|---|---|
-| **Triage** | Classify issues/PRs, spot duplicates, propose labels | Stable |
-| **Mentoring** | Help contributors with conventions, point to examples | Experimental |
-| **Drafting** | Write a code fix or a PR for you to review | Stable (security) |
-| **Pairing** | Self-review your own code before submitting | Experimental |
-| **Auto-merge** | Merge trivial changes without human review | Off (deliberately) |
+| **Agentic Triage** | Classify issues/PRs, spot duplicates, propose labels | Stable |
+| **Agentic Mentoring** | Help contributors with conventions, point to examples | Experimental |
+| **Agentic Drafting** | Write a code fix or a PR for you to review | Stable (security) |
+| **Agentic Pairing** | Self-review your own code before submitting | Experimental |
+| **Agentic Autonomous** | Merge trivial changes without human review | Off (deliberately) |
-Each project picks the modes that fit. You can run just Triage and nothing else.
+Each project picks the modes that fit. You can run just Agentic Triage and nothing else.
---
@@ -46,17 +46,23 @@ Each project picks the modes that fit. You can run just Triage and nothing else.
Magpie's skills ship in **families**. You don't adopt all of them — you pick the ones that match a problem you actually have today. Each family page explains what it does, which skills it includes, and how to turn it on.
-| If you're dealing with… | Adopt the family |
-|---|---|
-| Setting up agents safely — sandbox, clean environment, privacy routing | [setup](setup/README.md) |
-| Security reports that need careful, audited handling | [security](security/README.md) |
-| A pull-request queue that's out of control | [pr-management](pr-management/README.md) |
-| An issue backlog full of duplicates and stale reports | [issue-management](issue-management/README.md) |
-| Repo hygiene slipping — CI runners, dependencies, licenses, flaky tests | [repo-health](repo-health/README.md) |
-| Releases that are a manual, error-prone slog | [release-management](release-management/README.md) |
-| New contributors getting stuck and drifting away | [mentoring](mentoring/README.md) |
-| Growing contributors into committers | [contributor-growth](contributor-growth/README.md) |
-| Building or maintaining your own skills | [utilities](utilities/README.md) |
+Most families work on **any** project, inside or outside the Apache Software
+Foundation. The ones marked **🪶 ASF-specific** encode Foundation processes —
+the release lifecycle and the contributor-to-committer path — and assume an ASF
+adopter profile by default; a non-ASF project can still adopt them through the
+adapter/config layer, but they carry ASF assumptions the generic families do not.
+
+| If you're dealing with… | Adopt the family | Scope |
+|---|---|---|
+| Setting up agents safely — sandbox, clean environment, privacy routing | [setup](setup/README.md) | Any project |
+| Security reports that need careful, audited handling | [security](security/README.md) | Any project |
+| A pull-request queue that's out of control | [pr-management](pr-management/README.md) | Any project |
+| An issue backlog full of duplicates and stale reports | [issue-management](issue-management/README.md) | Any project |
+| Repo hygiene slipping — CI runners, dependencies, licenses, flaky tests | [repo-health](repo-health/README.md) | Any project |
+| Releases that are a manual, error-prone slog | [release-management](release-management/README.md) | 🪶 ASF-specific |
+| New contributors getting stuck and drifting away | [mentoring](mentoring/README.md) | Any project |
+| Growing contributors into committers | [contributor-growth](contributor-growth/README.md) | 🪶 ASF-specific |
+| Building or maintaining your own skills | [utilities](utilities/README.md) | Any project |
Start with [`setup`](setup/README.md) regardless — it is the prerequisite every adopter installs first — then add the families above as you need them.
@@ -101,10 +107,10 @@ from mailing lists, slack etc.
## Key concepts in 60 seconds
- **Skill** — A markdown file describing one workflow (e.g., "triage a PR"). The agent reads it and follows the steps.
-- **Mode** — A risk level (Triage → Mentoring → Drafting → Pairing → Auto-merge). Projects opt in per-mode.
+- **Mode** — A risk level (Agentic Triage → Agentic Mentoring → Agentic Drafting → Agentic Pairing → Agentic Autonomous). Projects opt in per-mode.
- **Adopter config** — Your project-specific settings (mailing lists, label schemes, canned responses) in a `<project-config>/` directory.
- **Sandbox** — The agent runs in a locked-down environment. It can't read your credentials, can't access the network freely, and can't push code.
-- **Human-in-the-loop** — Every action visible to others requires explicit maintainer confirmation. No exceptions until Auto-merge (which is off).
+- **Human-in-the-loop** — Every action visible to others requires explicit maintainer confirmation. No exceptions until Agentic Autonomous (which is off).
---
diff --git a/docs/issue-management/README.md b/docs/issue-management/README.md
index db06d032..b07c4f4d 100644
--- a/docs/issue-management/README.md
+++ b/docs/issue-management/README.md
@@ -16,11 +16,14 @@
# Issue management skill family
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not — no
+> Apache-Software-Foundation-specific assumptions baked in.
+
Maintainer-facing skills for projects with a general-issue tracker
(JIRA, GitHub Issues, Bugzilla, GitLab Issues). Six skills that
cover per-issue work, pool-level sweeps, and read-only reporting:
-1. **Triage** — sweep open issues in the configured candidate pool,
+1. **Agentic Triage** — sweep open issues in the configured candidate pool,
classify against the project's criteria, propose a disposition
(BUG / FEATURE-REQUEST / NEEDS-INFO / DUPLICATE / INVALID /
ALREADY-FIXED), execute on maintainer confirmation.
@@ -67,11 +70,11 @@ configured with different trackers.
| Skill | Mode | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
-| [`issue-triage`](../../skills/issue-triage/SKILL.md) | Triage | Per-issue classification + disposition proposal |
-| [`issue-reassess`](../../skills/issue-reassess/SKILL.md) | Triage | Pool-level sweep of resolved / EOL issues for re-assessment |
+| [`issue-triage`](../../skills/issue-triage/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | Per-issue classification + disposition proposal |
+| [`issue-reassess`](../../skills/issue-reassess/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | Pool-level sweep of resolved / EOL issues for re-assessment |
| [`issue-reproducer`](../../skills/issue-reproducer/SKILL.md) | — | Per-issue extraction + execution of code examples |
-| [`issue-fix-workflow`](../../skills/issue-fix-workflow/SKILL.md) | Drafting | Drafts a fix PR for a triaged issue |
-| [`issue-stale-sweep`](../../skills/issue-stale-sweep/SKILL.md) | Triage | Backlog hygiene: classifies dormant issues as `REQUEST-UPDATE` or `CLOSE-STALE`; posts one comment per issue on confirmation |
+| [`issue-fix-workflow`](../../skills/issue-fix-workflow/SKILL.md) | Agentic Drafting | Drafts a fix PR for a triaged issue |
+| [`issue-stale-sweep`](../../skills/issue-stale-sweep/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | Backlog hygiene: classifies dormant issues as `REQUEST-UPDATE` or `CLOSE-STALE`; posts one comment per issue on confirmation |
| [`issue-reassess-stats`](../../skills/issue-reassess-stats/SKILL.md) | — | Read-only campaign dashboard |
Reproducer and stats sit outside the MISSION mode taxonomy; they
diff --git a/docs/mentoring/README.md b/docs/mentoring/README.md
index 117fd45f..3536d66a 100644
--- a/docs/mentoring/README.md
+++ b/docs/mentoring/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!-- DON'T EDIT THIS SECTION, INSTEAD RE-RUN doctoc TO UPDATE -->
**Table of Contents** *generated with [DocToc](https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc)*
-- [Mentoring skill family](#mentoring-skill-family)
+- [Agentic Mentoring skill family](#agentic-mentoring-skill-family)
- [Skills](#skills)
- [What each skill covers](#what-each-skill-covers)
- [Adopter contract](#adopter-contract)
@@ -14,14 +14,17 @@
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
-# Mentoring skill family
+# Agentic Mentoring skill family
+
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not — no
+> Apache-Software-Foundation-specific assumptions baked in.
Maintainer-facing skills that join contributor threads in a teaching
register, author newcomer-ready issues, and orient first-time contributors.
Three skills shipped at `experimental`; a fourth (`contributor-to-committer`)
is in-flight.
-MISSION names Mentoring as the highest-value project-side mode and the one
+MISSION names Agentic Mentoring as the highest-value project-side mode and the one
off-the-shelf agent tooling skips. The framework lands the spec — tone guide,
hand-off protocol, adopter contract — and the skill implementations together,
so the project's tone choices are reviewable independently of runtime
@@ -41,12 +44,12 @@ confirmation in-session.
### What each skill covers
-- **`pr-management-mentor`** — the thread-level Mentoring skill. Reads an
+- **`pr-management-mentor`** — the thread-level Agentic Mentoring skill. Reads an
issue or PR thread, decides whether a teaching-register intervention is
warranted (clarifying question, convention pointer, paired example from a
prior PR), drafts the comment, and waits for maintainer confirmation before
- posting. Never reviews code, routes PRs, or authors fixes — those are Triage
- and Drafting respectively.
+ posting. Never reviews code, routes PRs, or authors fixes — those are Agentic Triage
+ and Agentic Drafting respectively.
- **`good-first-issue-author`** — the issue on-ramp skill. Takes a maintainer-
supplied gap or small task, applies a suitability gate (too large, security-
sensitive, or requiring a design decision → decline), runs through R1–R9
@@ -85,11 +88,11 @@ signals `contributor-nomination` already gathers. It is not yet on `main`.
## Cross-references
-- [`MISSION.md` § Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
+- [`MISSION.md` § Agentic Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
mode definition, contributor-empowerment framing.
- [`docs/modes.md` § Mentoring](../modes.md#mentoring) —
current implementation status.
-- [`spec.md`](spec.md) — full Mentoring spec: tone guide, hand-off
+- [`spec.md`](spec.md) — full Agentic Mentoring spec: tone guide, hand-off
protocol, adopter contract.
- [`projects/_template/README.md`](../../projects/_template/README.md) —
adopter scaffold index.
diff --git a/docs/mentoring/spec.md b/docs/mentoring/spec.md
index 0c133776..aa9b6958 100644
--- a/docs/mentoring/spec.md
+++ b/docs/mentoring/spec.md
@@ -32,15 +32,15 @@ Experimental. Three skills shipped:
| [`good-first-issue-author`](../../skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md) | Draft a single net-new good first issue from a maintainer-supplied candidate. |
| [`mentoring-welcome`](../../skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md) | Draft a first-contact orientation comment for a first-time contributor on a newly opened issue or PR. |
-This document is the normative Mentoring spec: tone guide, hand-off
+This document is the normative Agentic Mentoring spec: tone guide, hand-off
protocol, and adopter contract. The skills implement these conventions;
the spec is the authoritative reference when the two diverge.
-See [`MISSION.md` § Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) and
+See [`MISSION.md` § Agentic Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) and
[`docs/modes.md` § Mentoring](../modes.md#mentoring).
## Scope
-Mentoring joins issue and PR threads in a teaching register. The
+Agentic Mentoring joins issue and PR threads in a teaching register. The
agent's job is to lower the barrier to a contributor's *next
useful action*. Concretely, in scope:
@@ -62,20 +62,20 @@ useful action*. Concretely, in scope:
Out of scope:
-- *Reviewing code*. That is Triage's
+- *Reviewing code*. That is Agentic Triage's
[`pr-management-code-review`](../../skills/pr-management-code-review/SKILL.md)
- skill. Mentoring does not approve, request changes, or post inline
+ skill. Agentic Mentoring does not approve, request changes, or post inline
diff comments.
-- *Triage routing*. That is Triage's
+- *Triage routing*. That is Agentic Triage's
[`pr-management-triage`](../../skills/pr-management-triage/SKILL.md)
- skill. Mentoring does not assign labels, mark draft, or close PRs.
-- *Authoring fixes*. That is Drafting. Mentoring does not open PRs or
+ skill. Agentic Mentoring does not assign labels, mark draft, or close PRs.
+- *Authoring fixes*. That is Agentic Drafting. Agentic Mentoring does not open PRs or
edit code.
-- *Speaking for the maintainer team* on disputed decisions. Mentoring says "a maintainer will weigh in" and stops.
+- *Speaking for the maintainer team* on disputed decisions. Agentic Mentoring says "a maintainer will weigh in" and stops.
## Triggers
-Mentoring never posts unprompted on a thread it has not been
+Agentic Mentoring never posts unprompted on a thread it has not been
invoked on. The skill is opt-in per invocation. Three trigger
paths:
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ paths:
classifies a PR as "first contributor, missing repro" (or
equivalent triage flag), the maintainer can chain
`/magpie-pr-management-mentor` on that PR. The two skills compose;
- Mentoring does not run inside Triage by default.
+ Agentic Mentoring does not run inside Agentic Triage by default.
3. **Issue-thread invocation**. Same opt-in, on issues rather
than PRs, for the "missing version / missing repro" case.
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ Why no auto-fire: posting a teaching-register comment without
explicit human authorization risks the agent talking past a
maintainer who is mid-conversation with the contributor, or
posting on a thread where the maintainer has *deliberately* not
-replied yet. Auto-fire is a Auto-merge-shaped problem and inherits
-Auto-merge's sequencing constraint.
+replied yet. Auto-fire is a Agentic Autonomous-shaped problem and inherits
+Agentic Autonomous's sequencing constraint.
## Teaching register — tone guide
@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ feeling managed.
- AI self-reference outside the attribution footer. The footer
says it once; the body should not.
- Speaking for the maintainer. "The maintainers will probably
- want X" — Mentoring does not predict maintainer decisions. It
+ want X" — Agentic Mentoring does not predict maintainer decisions. It
says "a maintainer will reply on this; in the meantime,
here's the convention" and stops.
@@ -158,12 +158,12 @@ documented two-stage process.
The agent bows out and pings a human when:
1. The contributor pushes back on a substantive design point.
- Mentoring answers "why is this convention" once. If the
- contributor disagrees, Mentoring does not argue; it pings the
+ Agentic Mentoring answers "why is this convention" once. If the
+ contributor disagrees, Agentic Mentoring does not argue; it pings the
maintainer.
2. The question touches security, embargoed work, deprecation
timing, or anything not covered by public documentation.
- Mentoring does not improvise on these surfaces.
+ Agentic Mentoring does not improvise on these surfaces.
3. The thread reaches `<max_agent_turns>` (configurable, default
2). After that the agent stops engaging on the thread
regardless of content.
@@ -202,13 +202,13 @@ fixed in the shipped implementations.
- **Attribution footer.** Same wording as the triage footer, different
step token (`mentoring` vs `triage`). One contributor-trust
calibration is easier to reason about than two.
-- **Every draft reviewed.** Every Mentoring comment requires explicit
+- **Every draft reviewed.** Every Agentic Mentoring comment requires explicit
maintainer confirmation before posting. Pre-authorization is
- Auto-merge-shaped and inherits Auto-merge's sequencing constraint.
+ Agentic Autonomous-shaped and inherits Agentic Autonomous's sequencing constraint.
## Cross-references
-- [`MISSION.md` § Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
+- [`MISSION.md` § Agentic Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
the mode definition + responsible-AI framing.
- [`docs/modes.md` § Mentoring](../modes.md#mentoring) —
current implementation status (experimental, 3 skills shipped).
diff --git a/docs/mode-economics.md b/docs/mode-economics.md
index a2c8428b..b773b544 100644
--- a/docs/mode-economics.md
+++ b/docs/mode-economics.md
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
- [Mentoring](#mentoring)
- [Drafting](#drafting)
- [Pairing](#pairing)
- - [Auto-merge](#auto-merge)
+ - [Agentic Autonomous](#agentic-autonomous)
- [Model class and mode cost shape](#model-class-and-mode-cost-shape)
- [Local and self-hosted inference](#local-and-self-hosted-inference)
- [Reducing costs](#reducing-costs)
@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ capability; they incur hardware cost rather than per-token billing. See
### Triage
-The lowest-cost mode. Most Triage skills are read-bounded: the
+The lowest-cost mode. Most Agentic Triage skills are read-bounded: the
expensive part is loading context (PR diff, report body, existing
issue sample), not generating output. Every output is a short
proposal — a label suggestion, a routing recommendation, a
@@ -110,13 +110,13 @@ to input.
| `security-issue-sync` | Full tracker reconciliation | 20 000–100 000 | Tracker age, mail-thread depth, linked PRs |
| `security-cve-allocate` | CVE allocation workflow | 5 000–12 000 | Mostly procedural; low variance |
-**Rule of thumb for Triage:** budget 10 000–30 000 tokens per
+**Rule of thumb for Agentic Triage:** budget 10 000–30 000 tokens per
PR / issue / report on average. A project processing 50 inbound items
-per week uses roughly 500 000–1 500 000 tokens/week across Triage work.
+per week uses roughly 500 000–1 500 000 tokens/week across Agentic Triage work.
### Mentoring
-Mentoring is conversational and per-reply: the agent reads thread
+Agentic Mentoring is conversational and per-reply: the agent reads thread
context, project conventions, and contributor history, then produces
a single targeted response. Cost per reply is moderate; total weekly
cost depends on contributor volume.
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ cost depends on contributor volume.
| `pr-management-mentor` | Single threaded reply | 6 000–20 000 | Estimated; skill experimental |
| `good-first-issue-author` | One candidate → one issue draft | 6 000–18 000 | Estimated; reads one candidate + named source files, no full-thread history; skill experimental |
-**Rule of thumb for Mentoring:** budget 10 000–20 000 tokens per
+**Rule of thumb for Agentic Mentoring:** budget 10 000–20 000 tokens per
contributor interaction. A project with 20 active contributors each
receiving 3 agent replies per week: roughly 600 000–1 200 000
tokens/week.
@@ -143,14 +143,14 @@ source files in addition to the issue or report.
| `security-issue-fix` — code fix | Agent-drafted fix + PR | 30 000–150 000 | Adds source files; wide variance |
| `issue-fix-workflow` | Issue fix + PR | 25 000–120 000 | Bounded by what the skill reads from the codebase |
-**Rule of thumb for Drafting:** reporter replies average 15 000–25 000
+**Rule of thumb for Agentic Drafting:** reporter replies average 15 000–25 000
tokens; code-producing invocations average 50 000–100 000 tokens
depending on codebase scope. Limiting the skill to the relevant source
-files is the single biggest lever on Drafting cost.
+files is the single biggest lever on Agentic Drafting cost.
### Pairing
-Pairing runs in the developer's own development cycle, not on project
+Agentic Pairing runs in the developer's own development cycle, not on project
infrastructure — cost is per-developer-session. Multi-agent pipelines
multiply the per-pass cost by the number of review agents.
@@ -159,14 +159,14 @@ multiply the per-pass cost by the number of review agents.
| `pairing-self-review` | Pre-flight review of a local diff | 10 000–50 000 | Estimated; skill experimental. Scales with diff size and conventions doc length. |
| Multi-agent review pipeline | Full three-pass review | 30 000–200 000 | Estimated; future skill. 3–4 × single-pass cost. Parallelism reduces latency, not billing. |
-**Rule of thumb for Pairing:** a typical pre-flight self-review of a
+**Rule of thumb for Agentic Pairing:** a typical pre-flight self-review of a
medium PR uses 15 000–30 000 tokens. A three-agent review pipeline on
the same PR: 45 000–90 000 tokens.
-### Auto-merge
+### Agentic Autonomous
-**Status: off.** Auto-merge is not implemented; it has no token cost.
-See [`docs/modes.md` § Auto-merge](modes.md#auto-merge).
+**Status: off.** Agentic Autonomous is not implemented; it has no token cost.
+See [`docs/modes.md` § Agentic Autonomous](modes.md#agentic-autonomous).
---
@@ -179,12 +179,12 @@ class" means quality requirements that mid-tier models often miss.
| Mode | Small class | Mid-tier class | Large class |
|---|---|---|---|
-| Triage — classification / routing | Viable for most cases | Recommended default | Rarely needed |
-| Triage — security import (novel patterns) | Miss rate is higher | Recommended default | For subtle or novel reports |
-| Mentoring | Acceptable on simple threads | Recommended default | Not typical |
-| Drafting — reporter reply | Acceptable | Recommended default | Rarely needed |
-| Drafting — code fix | Often insufficient | Recommended default | Complex bugs or large refactors |
-| Pairing — self-review | Limited recall on conventions | Recommended default | Anchor pass in multi-agent pipelines |
+| Agentic Triage — classification / routing | Viable for most cases | Recommended default | Rarely needed |
+| Agentic Triage — security import (novel patterns) | Miss rate is higher | Recommended default | For subtle or novel reports |
+| Agentic Mentoring | Acceptable on simple threads | Recommended default | Not typical |
+| Agentic Drafting — reporter reply | Acceptable | Recommended default | Rarely needed |
+| Agentic Drafting — code fix | Often insufficient | Recommended default | Complex bugs or large refactors |
+| Agentic Pairing — self-review | Limited recall on conventions | Recommended default | Anchor pass in multi-agent pipelines |
**Cost differential across classes (indicative ratio, not a price):**
Small-class models are typically 10–50× cheaper per token than
@@ -202,9 +202,9 @@ per-token billing to hardware:
| Inference path | Per-token cost | Typical hardware cost | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
-| Consumer GPU, Small-class quantised model | $0 | ~$0.10–0.50/hr (capex amortised over ~3 yr lifespan × moderate utilisation) | Viable for Triage and short Mentoring/Drafting |
+| Consumer GPU, Small-class quantised model | $0 | ~$0.10–0.50/hr (capex amortised over ~3 yr lifespan × moderate utilisation) | Viable for Agentic Triage and short Agentic Mentoring/Agentic Drafting |
| Cloud spot GPU, Mid-tier model | $0 | ~$1–4/hr depending on GPU class | Viable for all modes; latency is higher than hosted APIs |
-| CPU-only, quantised Small model | $0 | Near-zero | Very slow; not recommended for interactive Pairing |
+| CPU-only, quantised Small model | $0 | Near-zero | Very slow; not recommended for interactive Agentic Pairing |
Local inference is also the simplest privacy answer for most skills:
data never leaves the machine, and no third-party data-processing
@@ -215,11 +215,11 @@ paths use identical skill code to hosted paths.
## Reducing costs
-1. **Match model class to task.** Triage classification and short
- Mentoring replies do not need a frontier model. Reserve Large-class
+1. **Match model class to task.** Agentic Triage classification and short
+ Agentic Mentoring replies do not need a frontier model. Reserve Large-class
for novel-pattern security analysis and complex multi-file code fixes.
-2. **Scope code reads.** The biggest driver of Drafting cost is how
+2. **Scope code reads.** The biggest driver of Agentic Drafting cost is how
many source files the agent loads. Small, well-named files help the
skill read only what is relevant.
diff --git a/docs/modes.md b/docs/modes.md
index 732d80b9..b0adeea1 100644
--- a/docs/modes.md
+++ b/docs/modes.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
- [Mentoring](#mentoring)
- [Drafting](#drafting)
- [Pairing](#pairing)
- - [Auto-merge](#auto-merge)
+ - [Agentic Autonomous](#agentic-autonomous)
- [Outside the modes](#outside-the-modes)
- [Mode lifecycle](#mode-lifecycle)
- [Cross-references](#cross-references)
@@ -23,10 +23,10 @@
[`MISSION.md`](../MISSION.md) frames the framework around five
toggleable **modes** of agent-assisted repository maintainership
-and development: **Triage**, **Mentoring**, **Drafting**
-(agent-authored fixes with human review), **Pairing**
+and development: **Agentic Triage**, **Agentic Mentoring**, **Agentic Drafting**
+(agent-authored fixes with human review), **Agentic Pairing**
(developer-side dev-cycle skills with mentorship intrinsic), and
-**Auto-merge** (narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge). Each adopting
+**Agentic Autonomous** (limited fix-and-merge). Each adopting
project picks the modes that match its culture and risk
tolerance.
@@ -44,17 +44,23 @@ sequencing commitments behind them.
| **stable** | Implemented, in use by at least one adopter, behaviour expected to remain backward-compatible across minor framework versions. |
| **experimental** | Implemented but not yet covered by an adopter pilot or contributor-sentiment evaluation; shape may change. |
| **proposed** | Designed in [`MISSION.md`](../MISSION.md) but no skill yet exists; tracked for future implementation. |
-| **off** | Deliberately not implemented per a MISSION-level sequencing rule (Auto-merge). |
+| **off** | Deliberately not implemented per a MISSION-level sequencing rule (Agentic Autonomous). |
## Modes at a glance
+The **Mode** column below holds the canonical identifier used in each skill's
+`mode:` frontmatter (and validated against this table). The display name carried
+in the docs and on the site prefixes it with *Agentic* — *Agentic Triage*,
+*Agentic Mentoring*, *Agentic Drafting*, *Agentic Pairing*, and *Agentic
+Autonomous* (the renamed former *Auto-merge*).
+
| Mode | Purpose | Status | Skill count |
|---|---|---|---|
-| **Triage** | Issues, security reports, PRs: spot, classify, route, surface duplicates. Every output is a suggestion the human signs off on. | stable (security) / experimental (pr-management, issue-management, contributor-nomination, repo-health, release-management) | 31 |
-| **Mentoring** | Joins issue and PR threads in a teaching register: clarifying questions, pointers to project conventions, paired examples from prior PRs, hand-off to a human when scope exceeds the agent. Also authors net-new good first issues to lower onboarding latency. | experimental | 3 |
-| **Drafting** | Agent drafts a fix for a well-scoped problem and opens a PR; every PR is reviewed and merged by a human committer. | stable (security-only); experimental (issue-management, audit-findings, release-management family) | 9 |
-| **Pairing** | Developer-side dev-cycle skills with mentorship intrinsic — multi-agent review pipelines, self-review and pre-flight patterns, scoped fix drafting under the developer's driver's seat. | experimental | 2 |
-| **Auto-merge** | Auto-merge restricted to objectively boring change classes (lint, dependency bumps inside an allow-list, license-header insertion, formatting, broken-link repair). | off | 0 |
+| **Triage** | *(Agentic Triage)* Issues, security reports, PRs: spot, classify, route, surface duplicates. Every output is a suggestion the human signs off on. | stable (security) / experimental (pr-management, issue-management, contributor-nomination, repo-health, release-management) | 31 |
+| **Mentoring** | *(Agentic Mentoring)* Joins issue and PR threads in a teaching register: clarifying questions, pointers to project conventions, paired examples from prior PRs, hand-off to a human when scope exceeds the agent. Also authors net-new good first issues to lower onboarding latency. | experimental | 3 |
+| **Drafting** | *(Agentic Drafting)* Agent drafts a fix for a well-scoped problem and opens a PR; every PR is reviewed and merged by a human committer. | stable (security-only); experimental (issue-management, audit-findings, release-management family) | 9 |
+| **Pairing** | *(Agentic Pairing)* Developer-side dev-cycle skills with mentorship intrinsic — multi-agent review pipelines, self-review and pre-flight patterns, scoped fix drafting under the developer's driver's seat. | experimental | 2 |
+| **Agentic Autonomous** | Auto-merges objectively boring change classes only (lint, dependency bumps inside an allow-list, license-header insertion, formatting, broken-link repair). | off | 0 |
A few skills sit **outside** the mode taxonomy by design — see
[Outside the modes](#outside-the-modes) below.
@@ -96,7 +102,7 @@ do not act without human review.
| [`workflow-security-audit`](../skills/workflow-security-audit/SKILL.md) | Read-only GitHub Actions workflow security audit powered by `zizmor`: surfaces injection vulnerabilities, excessive permissions, unpinned external actions, and self-hosted-runner fork-secret leaks. | experimental |
| [`license-compliance-audit`](../skills/license-compliance-audit/SKILL.md) | Read-only license-compliance audit: LICENSE presence, NOTICE completeness when required, and SPDX-header consistency across source files; proposes remedies for maintainer review. | experimental |
| [`flaky-test-triage`](../skills/flaky-test-triage/SKILL.md) | Read-only flaky-test detection from CI run history: per-job failure-rate analysis over a configurable window, separating intermittent (flaky) from deterministic failures. | experimental |
-| [`release-verify-rc`](../skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md) | Read-only pre-flight on a staged RC: signatures against project KEYS, checksums, license headers (Apache RAT), NOTICE/LICENSE diff, no prohibited binaries, version-string consistency. Doubles as a Pairing-mode skill voters run in their own dev loop. | experimental |
+| [`release-verify-rc`](../skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md) | Read-only pre-flight on a staged RC: signatures against project KEYS, checksums, license headers (Apache RAT), NOTICE/LICENSE diff, no prohibited binaries, version-string consistency. Doubles as an Agentic Pairing-mode skill voters run in their own dev loop. | experimental |
| [`release-vote-tally`](../skills/release-vote-tally/SKILL.md) | Fetch the approval signal for an RC, classify each reply (+1 / 0 / -1) binding vs non-binding against the configured roster, produce the tally summary, and draft the `[RESULT] [VOTE]` email. Conservative on ambiguous votes, refuses to count. | experimental |
| [`release-archive-sweep`](../skills/release-archive-sweep/SKILL.md) | Scan `dist/release/<project>/`, identify releases past retention, propose the `svn mv` sequence to `archive.apache.org`. | experimental |
| [`release-audit-report`](../skills/release-audit-report/SKILL.md) | Per-release structured report (RM, voters with binding flags, artefacts with sigs and checksums, promote revision, `[ANNOUNCE]` archive URL) appended to the project's audit log. | experimental |
@@ -106,12 +112,12 @@ Three notes on the boundaries:
- `pr-management-code-review` is a deeper variant of triage —
the agent reads diff and surrounding code rather than only
metadata, but the output is still a suggestion for the human
- reviewer. It belongs to Triage by the same rule.
+ reviewer. It belongs to Agentic Triage by the same rule.
- `security-cve-allocate` is procedural rather than classificatory
- (CVE allocation happens after assessment), but it shares Triage's
+ (CVE allocation happens after assessment), but it shares Agentic Triage's
shape: the agent prepares a paste-ready artefact, the human
PMC member submits it. Listed here for navigability.
-- The four `release-*` Triage skills share the same paste-ready-
+- The four `release-*` Agentic Triage skills share the same paste-ready-
artefact shape: `release-verify-rc` reports pass/fail per check,
`release-vote-tally` proposes `[RESULT]`, `release-archive-sweep`
proposes an `svn mv` sequence, `release-audit-report` proposes
@@ -123,7 +129,7 @@ Three notes on the boundaries:
**Status: experimental. 3 skills shipped.**
-[`MISSION.md` § Mentoring](../MISSION.md#technical-scope) names this
+[`MISSION.md` § Agentic Mentoring](../MISSION.md#technical-scope) names this
the highest-value project-side mode and the one off-the-shelf agent
tooling skips. The spec — tone guide, hand-off protocol, adopter
contract — landed ahead of the skill code so the project's tone
@@ -150,8 +156,8 @@ for the full contract.
The closest existing surface is
[`pr-management-triage/comment-templates.md`](../skills/pr-management-triage/comment-templates.md),
-which carries Triage classification responses — informational,
-not pedagogical. It is **not** Mentoring.
+which carries Agentic Triage classification responses — informational,
+not pedagogical. It is **not** Agentic Mentoring.
## Drafting
@@ -174,9 +180,9 @@ the agent never merges its own work.
| [`release-announce-draft`](../skills/release-announce-draft/SKILL.md) | Draft the `[ANNOUNCE]` email body for `announce@apache.org` and the site-bump PR (Step 11). Agent never sends mail and never merges the PR. | experimental |
[`audit-finding-fix`](../skills/audit-finding-fix/SKILL.md)
-extends Drafting to **non-security audit-tool findings**: lint
+extends Agentic Drafting to **non-security audit-tool findings**: lint
violations, type errors, CodeQL alerts, and documentation-coverage
-gaps. It is the generic-Drafting companion to
+gaps. It is the generic-Agentic Drafting companion to
[`issue-fix-workflow`](../skills/issue-fix-workflow/SKILL.md)
(issue-tracker bugs) and
[`security-issue-fix`](../skills/security-issue-fix/SKILL.md)
@@ -185,13 +191,13 @@ remain proposed.
The `release-*` skills form a single family
([`docs/release-management/README.md`](release-management/README.md))
-spanning Drafting (Steps 1–5, 7, 10–11, 14) and Triage (Steps 6, 9,
+spanning Agentic Drafting (Steps 1–5, 7, 10–11, 14) and Agentic Triage (Steps 6, 9,
12–13). All ten have now shipped `experimental`. They share the
security family's discipline that every state-changing action is a
*proposal* the human executes — see
[`docs/release-management/spec.md` § Cross-cutting commitments](release-management/spec.md#cross-cutting-commitments).
-For security-class Drafting PRs, the public surface strips CVE
+For security-class Agentic Drafting PRs, the public surface strips CVE
and private context per the project's disclosure policy, so the
public surface stays clean until the embargo lifts — see
[`AGENTS.md` § Confidentiality](../AGENTS.md#confidentiality-of-the-tracker-repository)
@@ -201,27 +207,27 @@ for the rules the skill enforces.
**Status: experimental. 2 skills.**
-[`MISSION.md` § Pairing](../MISSION.md#technical-scope) introduces
+[`MISSION.md` § Agentic Pairing](../MISSION.md#technical-scope) introduces
this mode as the developer-side counterpart to the project-side
-modes. Where Triage / Mentoring / Drafting / Auto-merge describe
-the agent's presence on the project's own infrastructure, Pairing
+modes. Where Agentic Triage / Agentic Mentoring / Agentic Drafting / Agentic Autonomous describe
+the agent's presence on the project's own infrastructure, Agentic Pairing
skills run in the maintainer's or contributor's *own* dev loop —
multi-agent review pipelines, self-review and pre-flight patterns,
scoped fix drafting under the developer's driver's seat.
-**Mentorship is intrinsic** to Pairing skills: the agent handles
+**Mentorship is intrinsic** to Agentic Pairing skills: the agent handles
the mechanical, implementation-detail review (formatting,
conventions, lint-grade nits) so the human conversation between
contributor and maintainer — and between peer maintainers —
stays on design, reasoning, and the trade-offs the project cares
-about. Pairing skills are the platform's mechanism for protecting
+about. Agentic Pairing skills are the platform's mechanism for protecting
the **ASF contribution path** (contributor → committer → PMC)
against being eroded by automation that replaces, rather than
augments, the human-to-human relationships that path is built on.
-Pairing skills don't make state changes on behalf of the project;
+Agentic Pairing skills don't make state changes on behalf of the project;
they share the same skill format and security posture as the
project-side modes, so a maintainer who already trusts the
-framework for Triage gets the same posture for the patches they
+framework for Agentic Triage gets the same posture for the patches they
write themselves.
| Skill | Domain | Status |
@@ -229,9 +235,9 @@ write themselves.
| [`pairing-self-review`](../skills/pairing-self-review/SKILL.md) | Pre-flight self-review of local changes before opening a PR. Read-only; returns a structured report. | experimental |
| [`pairing-multi-agent-review`](../skills/pairing-multi-agent-review/SKILL.md) | Fan a diff through three independent review passes (correctness, security, conventions) and merge findings. | experimental |
-**Sequencing.** Pairing ships before Auto-merge in the project's
+**Sequencing.** Agentic Pairing ships before Agentic Autonomous in the project's
automation roadmap — full auto-merge of maintainer-driven changes
-follows only after Pairing has established that human reasoning
+follows only after Agentic Pairing has established that human reasoning
and relationships, not implementation chatter, are the
load-bearing parts of the workflow.
@@ -239,22 +245,22 @@ load-bearing parts of the workflow.
|---|---|
| [`docs/pairing/README.md`](pairing/README.md) | Family overview: skills, when to use each, adopter contract. |
-## Auto-merge
+## Agentic Autonomous
**Status: off. Deliberately not implemented.**
-[`MISSION.md` § Auto-merge](../MISSION.md#technical-scope) holds
-auto-merge off until Triage, Mentoring, Drafting, and Pairing
+[`MISSION.md` § Agentic Autonomous](../MISSION.md#technical-scope) holds
+auto-merge off until Agentic Triage, Agentic Mentoring, Agentic Drafting, and Agentic Pairing
have been running for two quarters and contributor-sentiment
data says the project is healthier, not just faster.
-Security-class changes are explicitly **out** of Auto-merge — no
+Security-class changes are explicitly **out** of Agentic Autonomous — no
auto-merge ever touches anything embargoed or CVE-tagged.
The framework's current `.asf.yaml` configuration reflects this
posture: `pull_requests.allow_auto_merge` is set to `false`
([`.asf.yaml`](../.asf.yaml)).
-When Auto-merge ships, the eligible change classes will be
+When Agentic Autonomous ships, the eligible change classes will be
declared per-adopter in `<project-config>/` and gated by an
allow-list that the framework refuses to grow without an
adopter PR.
@@ -305,12 +311,12 @@ A mode moves through four states as it matures:
production, behaviour is backward-compatible across minor
framework versions. The default state for skills shipped to
adopters.
-4. **graduated-to-Auto-merge-eligible** *(future state; Triage,
- Mentoring, Drafting, and Pairing only)* — the mode has run
+4. **graduated-to-Agentic-Autonomous-eligible** *(future state; Agentic Triage,
+ Agentic Mentoring, Agentic Drafting, and Agentic Pairing only)* — the mode has run
stable for two quarters with positive contributor-sentiment
evidence, the framework will start considering an equivalent
- change class for Auto-merge. This state does not exist yet
- because Auto-merge itself is off.
+ change class for Agentic Autonomous. This state does not exist yet
+ because Agentic Autonomous itself is off.
A mode can be **retracted** from any state. The retraction
triggers MISSION names — sustained negative contributor
diff --git a/docs/pairing/README.md b/docs/pairing/README.md
index 6650f58c..05f18af4 100644
--- a/docs/pairing/README.md
+++ b/docs/pairing/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!-- DON'T EDIT THIS SECTION, INSTEAD RE-RUN doctoc TO UPDATE -->
**Table of Contents** *generated with [DocToc](https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc)*
-- [Pairing skill family](#pairing-skill-family)
+- [Agentic Pairing skill family](#agentic-pairing-skill-family)
- [Skills](#skills)
- [When to use which](#when-to-use-which)
- [Relationship to `pr-management-code-review`](#relationship-to-pr-management-code-review)
@@ -15,7 +15,10 @@
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
-# Pairing skill family
+# Agentic Pairing skill family
+
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not — no
+> Apache-Software-Foundation-specific assumptions baked in.
Developer-side pre-flight review skills that run in the maintainer's or
contributor's **own** dev loop — after local changes are ready but before
@@ -24,7 +27,7 @@ so the eventual human-to-human conversation between contributor and
maintainer stays on design, reasoning, and the trade-offs the project
cares about.
-**Mentorship is intrinsic.** Pairing skills are not a replacement for
+**Mentorship is intrinsic.** Agentic Pairing skills are not a replacement for
human code review; they are a pre-flight filter that separates
implementation-detail nits (formatting, convention violations, obvious
logical gaps) from the design-level conversation the project's
@@ -71,7 +74,7 @@ instead.
## Adopter contract
-The Pairing skills have no project-specific config files. They resolve
+The Agentic Pairing skills have no project-specific config files. They resolve
two standard placeholders from the adopter's `<project-config>/`:
| Placeholder | Resolved from |
@@ -95,8 +98,8 @@ shape may change between framework versions.
## Cross-references
-- [`MISSION.md` § Pairing](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) — mode
- rationale, sequencing constraints relative to Auto-merge.
+- [`MISSION.md` § Agentic Pairing](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) — mode
+ rationale, sequencing constraints relative to Agentic Autonomous.
- [`docs/modes.md` § Pairing](../modes.md#pairing) — implementation
status and mode-lifecycle stage.
- [`docs/modes.md` § Mode lifecycle](../modes.md#mode-lifecycle) — how
diff --git a/docs/pr-management/README.md b/docs/pr-management/README.md
index 8453b035..2a5e8116 100644
--- a/docs/pr-management/README.md
+++ b/docs/pr-management/README.md
@@ -14,11 +14,14 @@
# PR management skill family
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not — no
+> Apache-Software-Foundation-specific assumptions baked in.
+
Maintainer-facing PR-queue management for projects with a public
contributor PR queue. Four skills that compose into a complete
triage + review pass:
-1. **Triage** — sweep open PRs, classify against the project's
+1. **Agentic Triage** — sweep open PRs, classify against the project's
quality criteria, propose a disposition (draft / comment /
close / rebase / rerun / mark ready / ping), execute on
maintainer confirmation.
diff --git a/docs/release-management/README.md b/docs/release-management/README.md
index d7631bd0..10507b68 100644
--- a/docs/release-management/README.md
+++ b/docs/release-management/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
# Release-management skill family
+> **Scope — `asf: true` · 🪶 ASF-specific.** This family encodes Apache Software
+> Foundation processes (the 14-step release lifecycle) and assumes an ASF adopter
+> profile by default. Non-ASF projects can still adopt it through the
+> adapter/config layer, but it carries ASF assumptions the generic families do not.
+
End-to-end automation for an ASF project's release lifecycle,
from the planning issue and version bump through to `[ANNOUNCE]`
on `announce@apache.org`, archive sweep, and the per-release
@@ -58,8 +63,8 @@ baked into the install path:
`discord-channel`.
The 14 steps stay identical across backends; only the command set
-the agent emits changes. The state-change boundaries (Drafting vs
-Triage; agent never holds the signing key; agent never publishes)
+the agent emits changes. The state-change boundaries (Agentic Drafting vs
+Agentic Triage; agent never holds the signing key; agent never publishes)
stay identical too. See
[`process.md` § Adopter backends](process.md#adopter-backends)
for the full backend table and per-step mapping.
@@ -95,7 +100,7 @@ contract are reviewable independently from runtime behaviour.
This pattern matches [Mentoring](../mentoring/README.md).
Promotion of any skill in this family from `experimental` to
-default-on, or from Drafting to a state-changing lane, requires
+default-on, or from Agentic Drafting to a state-changing lane, requires
evidence sourced from Release Managers and binding voters that
the project's release process is healthier (fewer stalled
RCs, shorter time-to-`[ANNOUNCE]`, fewer reverted promotions),
@@ -116,18 +121,18 @@ for the step it executes against.
| Skill | Mode | Steps owned | Status | Purpose |
|---|---|---|---|---|
-| [`release-prepare`](../../skills/release-prepare/SKILL.md) | Drafting | 1, 2, 14 | **experimental** | Open the planning issue, draft the version-bump + changelog + NOTICE/LICENSE PR, then draft the post-release `-SNAPSHOT` bump. |
-| [`release-keys-sync`](../../skills/release-keys-sync/SKILL.md) | Drafting | 3 | **experimental** | Draft the `KEYS` diff for a Release Manager cutting their first release for the project. Agent never holds the private key. |
-| [`release-rc-cut`](../../skills/release-rc-cut/SKILL.md) | Drafting | 4, 5 | **experimental** | Emit the paste-ready command sequence, signed tag, build, detached signatures, checksums, `svn` import to `dist/dev/<project>/`. Agent never signs and never imports. |
-| [`release-verify-rc`](../../skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md) | Triage / Pairing | 6 | **experimental** | Read-only pre-flight: signatures against the project's `KEYS`, checksums, license headers (Apache RAT), NOTICE/LICENSE presence, no prohibited binaries, version-string consistency. Voters can run it in their own dev loop before posting `+1`. |
-| [`release-vote-draft`](../../skills/release-vote-draft/SKILL.md) | Drafting | 7 | **experimental** | Draft the `[VOTE]` email body to `dev@<project>`. Agent never sends. |
-| [`release-vote-tally`](../../skills/release-vote-tally/SKILL.md) | Triage | 9 | **experimental** | Parse the vote thread, classify each reply (+1 / 0 / -1) binding vs non-binding against the PMC roster, propose `[RESULT] [VOTE]`. Conservative on ambiguous votes, refuses to count, flags `AMBIGUOUS, needs RM call`. |
-| [`release-promote`](../../skills/release-promote/SKILL.md) | Drafting | 10 | **experimental** | Emit the paste-ready `svn mv dist/dev → dist/release` command set plus commit message. Agent never moves; the human commit is the act of release. |
-| [`release-announce-draft`](../../skills/release-announce-draft/SKILL.md) | Drafting | 11 | **experimental** | Draft the `[ANNOUNCE]` email body to `announce@apache.org` and the site-bump PR (download page, release notes, version banner). Agent never sends mail and never merges the site PR. |
-| [`release-archive-sweep`](../../skills/release-archive-sweep/SKILL.md) | Triage | 12 | **experimental** | Scan `dist/release/<project>/`, identify releases past retention, propose the `svn mv` sequence to `archive.apache.org`. Agent never moves. |
-| [`release-audit-report`](../../skills/release-audit-report/SKILL.md) | Triage (dashboard) | 13 | **experimental** | Read-only structured report per release, RM, voters with binding flags, artefacts with sigs and checksums, promotion revision, `[ANNOUNCE]` archive URL. Output appended to the project's audit log. |
-
-Two non-negotiable boundaries cross every Drafting skill above:
+| [`release-prepare`](../../skills/release-prepare/SKILL.md) | Agentic Drafting | 1, 2, 14 | **experimental** | Open the planning issue, draft the version-bump + changelog + NOTICE/LICENSE PR, then draft the post-release `-SNAPSHOT` bump. |
+| [`release-keys-sync`](../../skills/release-keys-sync/SKILL.md) | Agentic Drafting | 3 | **experimental** | Draft the `KEYS` diff for a Release Manager cutting their first release for the project. Agent never holds the private key. |
+| [`release-rc-cut`](../../skills/release-rc-cut/SKILL.md) | Agentic Drafting | 4, 5 | **experimental** | Emit the paste-ready command sequence, signed tag, build, detached signatures, checksums, `svn` import to `dist/dev/<project>/`. Agent never signs and never imports. |
+| [`release-verify-rc`](../../skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage / Agentic Pairing | 6 | **experimental** | Read-only pre-flight: signatures against the project's `KEYS`, checksums, license headers (Apache RAT), NOTICE/LICENSE presence, no prohibited binaries, version-string consistency. Voters can run it in their own dev loop before posting `+1`. |
+| [`release-vote-draft`](../../skills/release-vote-draft/SKILL.md) | Agentic Drafting | 7 | **experimental** | Draft the `[VOTE]` email body to `dev@<project>`. Agent never sends. |
+| [`release-vote-tally`](../../skills/release-vote-tally/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | 9 | **experimental** | Parse the vote thread, classify each reply (+1 / 0 / -1) binding vs non-binding against the PMC roster, propose `[RESULT] [VOTE]`. Conservative on ambiguous votes, refuses to count, flags `AMBIGUOUS, needs RM call`. |
+| [`release-promote`](../../skills/release-promote/SKILL.md) | Agentic Drafting | 10 | **experimental** | Emit the paste-ready `svn mv dist/dev → dist/release` command set plus commit message. Agent never moves; the human commit is the act of release. |
+| [`release-announce-draft`](../../skills/release-announce-draft/SKILL.md) | Agentic Drafting | 11 | **experimental** | Draft the `[ANNOUNCE]` email body to `announce@apache.org` and the site-bump PR (download page, release notes, version banner). Agent never sends mail and never merges the site PR. |
+| [`release-archive-sweep`](../../skills/release-archive-sweep/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage | 12 | **experimental** | Scan `dist/release/<project>/`, identify releases past retention, propose the `svn mv` sequence to `archive.apache.org`. Agent never moves. |
+| [`release-audit-report`](../../skills/release-audit-report/SKILL.md) | Agentic Triage (dashboard) | 13 | **experimental** | Read-only structured report per release, RM, voters with binding flags, artefacts with sigs and checksums, promotion revision, `[ANNOUNCE]` archive URL. Output appended to the project's audit log. |
+
+Two non-negotiable boundaries cross every Agentic Drafting skill above:
- **The agent never holds, invokes, or proxies the Release
Manager's private signing key.** Steps 3, 4, 10 emit paste-ready
@@ -188,15 +193,15 @@ file-by-file index. Required at minimum:
## Mode mapping
Release-management is a **family**, not a mode. The lifecycle
-spans the existing Triage and Drafting modes; no new mode is
+spans the existing Agentic Triage and Agentic Drafting modes; no new mode is
introduced. See [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md) for the
family-by-mode breakdown; `release-*` skills appear under the
-**Triage** and **Drafting** subsections (all ten skills are now
+**Agentic Triage** and **Agentic Drafting** subsections (all ten skills are now
`experimental`; the family is feature-complete).
The family's read-only dashboard skill
(`release-audit-report`)
-sits in Triage because it classifies and reports against existing
+sits in Agentic Triage because it classifies and reports against existing
state, not because it routes inbound work. The
[`docs/modes.md` § Outside the modes](../modes.md#outside-the-modes)
section is reserved for framework infrastructure (`setup-*`,
diff --git a/docs/release-management/process.md b/docs/release-management/process.md
index 8f395ca6..bdca4228 100644
--- a/docs/release-management/process.md
+++ b/docs/release-management/process.md
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ vote, green = publication and follow-up.
**Owner:** PMC + nominated Release Manager (RM).
**Skill:** `release-prepare`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting.
The RM opens a planning issue listing the target version, the
release train it belongs to (see
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ and adapts.
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-prepare`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting (same skill as Step 1, second invocation).
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting (same skill as Step 1, second invocation).
The skill drafts the changelog entry from the merged-PR set since
the previous release tag, the `NOTICE` diff (third-party
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ after their own review.
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-keys-sync`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting.
If the RM is signing their first release for the project, their
public key must appear in the project's `KEYS` file under
@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ no-op and reports so on the planning issue.
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-rc-cut`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting.
The skill emits a paste-ready command sequence:
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ Step 13.
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-rc-cut`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting (same skill as Step 4).
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting (same skill as Step 4).
The skill emits the `svn` command sequence to import the artefacts
+ `.asc` + `.sha512` files into
@@ -280,7 +280,7 @@ back to the planning issue.
**Owner:** RM (self-check) + any committer who plans to vote.
**Skill:** `release-verify-rc`
-*(proposed)*, Triage / Pairing.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Triage / Agentic Pairing.
Read-only. The skill fetches the staged artefacts from
`dist/dev/<project>/<version>-rcN/`, then verifies:
@@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ does not auto-flip any label; the RM decides whether to roll a new
RC (back to Step 4) or fix the verification source itself (e.g.
update RAT excludes).
-This skill is the most valuable Pairing-mode candidate in the family:
+This skill is the most valuable Agentic Pairing-mode candidate in the family:
voters run it in their own dev loop before posting a `+1` so the
mechanical verification work is done before the human-to-human vote
conversation.
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ conversation.
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-vote-draft`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting.
The skill drafts the `[VOTE]` email body to `dev@<project>` from
the planning issue's metadata: version, RC number, staging URL,
@@ -336,16 +336,16 @@ also proposed, not auto-posted.
**Skill:** none, passive window.
No skill runs during the window. The planning issue carries the
-`vote-open` label so other skills (Triage on adjacent issues,
-Mentoring on the `[VOTE]` thread) can spot the window and behave
-appropriately (e.g. Mentoring stays out of the `[VOTE]` thread per
+`vote-open` label so other skills (Agentic Triage on adjacent issues,
+Agentic Mentoring on the `[VOTE]` thread) can spot the window and behave
+appropriately (e.g. Agentic Mentoring stays out of the `[VOTE]` thread per
its hand-off rules, vote discussion is PMC business).
### Step 9: Tally + `[RESULT] [VOTE]`
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-vote-tally`
-*(proposed)*, Triage.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Triage.
After the window closes, the skill fetches the thread from the
project's mail archive (PonyMail by default), parses each reply,
@@ -375,7 +375,7 @@ planning issue on a failed vote.
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-promote`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting.
The skill emits a paste-ready `svn mv` command set that moves the
voted artefacts from
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ set (see [`release-promote` § hand-off](spec.md#release-promote)).
**Owner:** RM (`[ANNOUNCE]`) + PMC committers (site PR merge).
**Skill:** `release-announce-draft`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting.
Two artefacts:
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ site PR.
**Owner:** RM (or whoever holds release-archive duty per
[`<project-config>/release-management-config.md`](../../projects/_template/release-management-config.md)).
**Skill:** `release-archive-sweep`
-*(proposed)*, Triage.
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Triage.
Per [release-distribution § archiving](https://infra.apache.org/release-distribution.html),
only the current release line is kept on `dist/release/`;
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ under their own credentials.
**Owner:** the framework (per-project audit-log store configured in
[`<project-config>/release-management-config.md`](../../projects/_template/release-management-config.md)).
**Skill:** `release-audit-report`
-*(proposed)*, Triage (read-only dashboard).
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Triage (read-only dashboard).
Read-only. The skill assembles a per-release record from the
planning issue, the `[VOTE]` and `[RESULT]` archive URLs, the
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@ does not modify the artefacts it summarises.
**Owner:** RM.
**Skill:** `release-prepare`
-*(proposed)*, Drafting (same skill as Steps 1-2, third
+*(proposed)*, Agentic Drafting (same skill as Steps 1-2, third
invocation).
The skill drafts the PR that bumps the development branch to the
diff --git a/docs/release-management/spec.md b/docs/release-management/spec.md
index c9f5c759..1e0f0bf3 100644
--- a/docs/release-management/spec.md
+++ b/docs/release-management/spec.md
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ the skill, not the permission set.
### Boundary 3: Agent never sends mail to `dev@`, `users@`, `announce@`
-Drafting skills (`release-vote-draft`, `release-announce-draft`,
+Agentic Drafting skills (`release-vote-draft`, `release-announce-draft`,
`release-vote-tally` for the `[RESULT]` reply) emit email bodies as
markdown blocks the RM copies into their mail client. No skill in
the family is wired to an outbound SMTP path, an MCP send-mail
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ the skill reads.
### `release-prepare`
-**Mode:** Drafting. **Steps owned:** 1, 2, 14.
+**Mode:** Agentic Drafting. **Steps owned:** 1, 2, 14.
**Scope.** Drafts the planning issue, the prep PR (version bump +
changelog + NOTICE/LICENSE), and the post-release `-SNAPSHOT` bump
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ skill never marks ready, never merges, never closes.
### `release-keys-sync`
-**Mode:** Drafting. **Steps owned:** 3.
+**Mode:** Agentic Drafting. **Steps owned:** 3.
**Scope.** Draft the diff that adds the RM's public key to the
project's `KEYS` file under `dist/release/<project>/KEYS`, emit the
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ The skill never operates on the private key half.
### `release-rc-cut`
-**Mode:** Drafting. **Steps owned:** 4, 5.
+**Mode:** Agentic Drafting. **Steps owned:** 4, 5.
**Scope.** Emit the paste-ready command sequence to tag the RC,
build artefacts, sign each artefact, generate checksums, and stage
@@ -325,11 +325,11 @@ scaffold.
### `release-verify-rc`
-**Mode:** Triage / Pairing. **Steps owned:** 6.
+**Mode:** Agentic Triage / Agentic Pairing. **Steps owned:** 6.
**Scope.** Read-only verification of a staged RC. Designed to run
in two contexts: (1) the RM's pre-flight self-check before
-posting the `[VOTE]` thread, and (2) any voter's Pairing-mode dev
+posting the `[VOTE]` thread, and (2) any voter's Agentic Pairing-mode dev
loop before posting `+1`.
**Triggers.**
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ posting.
### `release-vote-draft`
-**Mode:** Drafting. **Steps owned:** 7.
+**Mode:** Agentic Drafting. **Steps owned:** 7.
**Scope.** Draft the `[VOTE]` email body to `dev@<project>` from
the planning issue's metadata.
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ explicit RM confirmation.
### `release-vote-tally`
-**Mode:** Triage. **Steps owned:** 9.
+**Mode:** Agentic Triage. **Steps owned:** 9.
**Scope.** After the approval window closes, fetch the approval
signal from the adopter's `release_approval_mechanism` backend,
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ classification is the agent's; the decision is the RM's.
### `release-promote`
-**Mode:** Drafting. **Steps owned:** 10.
+**Mode:** Agentic Drafting. **Steps owned:** 10.
**Scope.** Emit the backend-shaped promotion command set after a
passing vote. For `svnpubsub` (ASF): `svn mv dist/dev → dist/release`
@@ -568,7 +568,7 @@ hard skill-side denylist; removing it requires a skill PR.
### `release-announce-draft`
-**Mode:** Drafting. **Steps owned:** 11.
+**Mode:** Agentic Drafting. **Steps owned:** 11.
**Scope.** Draft the announcement artefact and the site-bump PR
on the configured site repo. The announcement artefact shape
@@ -625,7 +625,7 @@ draft; the agent never marks ready and never merges.
### `release-archive-sweep`
-**Mode:** Triage. **Steps owned:** 12.
+**Mode:** Agentic Triage. **Steps owned:** 12.
**Scope.** Scan `dist/release/<project>/`, identify releases past
retention per the project's rule, propose the `svn mv` to
@@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ runs `svn mv`. The RM executes.
### `release-audit-report`
-**Mode:** Triage (read-only dashboard). **Steps owned:** 13.
+**Mode:** Agentic Triage (read-only dashboard). **Steps owned:** 13.
**Scope.** Assemble a per-release record from the planning issue,
vote thread, RC artefact list, promote revision, announcement
@@ -808,14 +808,14 @@ can run a baseline eval before recording their own.
Surfaced here so reviewers can weigh in before any skill is
built.
-- **Should `release-verify-rc` ship as a Pairing skill from day
- one, or land as Triage and graduate later?** Current draft: ship
- Triage-marked with explicit Pairing-mode invocation
+- **Should `release-verify-rc` ship as an Agentic Pairing skill from day
+ one, or land as Agentic Triage and graduate later?** Current draft: ship
+ Agentic Triage-marked with explicit Agentic Pairing-mode invocation
(`/release-verify-rc --pairing`) so the same code path serves
the RM's project-side self-check and the voter's developer-side
- pre-flight. The framework's Pairing-mode definition is still
+ pre-flight. The framework's Agentic Pairing-mode definition is still
proposed ([`docs/modes.md` § Pairing](../modes.md#pairing)); this
- question is best resolved alongside the Pairing spec, not in
+ question is best resolved alongside the Agentic Pairing spec, not in
isolation.
- **Where do non-ASF adopters' release-distribution analogues
plug in?** Current draft: `release_dist_url_template` is generic
@@ -832,13 +832,13 @@ built.
requirements; the skill can support both by accepting either a
path inside the adopter repo or a URL to a separate repo, but
the second case requires extra credentials and is deferred.
-- **Auto-merge eligibility for the prep PR's `-SNAPSHOT` bump
+- **Agentic Autonomous eligibility for the prep PR's `-SNAPSHOT` bump
(Step 14)?** Current draft: not eligible. The Step 14 PR is
mechanical (`<version>-SNAPSHOT` bump on a single manifest
file) but per
- [`docs/modes.md` § Auto-merge](../modes.md#auto-merge),
- Auto-merge is off until Pairing has run stable for two
- quarters. Revisit when Auto-merge sequencing changes; the
+ [`docs/modes.md` § Agentic Autonomous](../modes.md#agentic-autonomous),
+ Agentic Autonomous is off until Agentic Pairing has run stable for two
+ quarters. Revisit when Agentic Autonomous sequencing changes; the
bump is a plausible first eligible class given its mechanical
shape and reversibility.
- **Publishing to distribution areas beyond `dist/release/`, and
diff --git a/docs/repo-health/README.md b/docs/repo-health/README.md
index caed091c..0ee3d396 100644
--- a/docs/repo-health/README.md
+++ b/docs/repo-health/README.md
@@ -19,6 +19,9 @@
# Repo-health audits — family overview
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not — no
+> Apache-Software-Foundation-specific assumptions baked in.
+
Read-only agent-assisted audits that surface repository maintenance signals
a human would otherwise have to detect by hand: runner label obsolescence,
Actions workflow security issues, stale or vulnerable dependencies,
diff --git a/docs/rfcs/RFC-AI-0004.md b/docs/rfcs/RFC-AI-0004.md
index 56217ecc..242a97b3 100644
--- a/docs/rfcs/RFC-AI-0004.md
+++ b/docs/rfcs/RFC-AI-0004.md
@@ -137,16 +137,16 @@ A skill that triages 200 PRs in 10 minutes is doing 200 state changes. If the ma
1. **Propose-then-apply, always.** The agent's natural unit of work is "here is the proposal, will you confirm?". The "apply" pass that follows confirmation is mechanical — no reasoning, no surprises, no second proposal hidden inside.
2. **Per-proposal confirmation, no batch yes.** Multiple state changes in the same response require a confirmation surface that lets the maintainer say "1, 3, 4 yes; 2 no". `all` as a one-keystroke shortcut is acceptable; the agent must still surface every item before honouring it.
-3. **No standing pre-approvals.** A skill MUST NOT support a config switch that says "auto-approve every X-class proposal". The boundary between Drafting (agent-authored fix with human review) and Auto-merge (narrowly-scoped auto-merge) is exactly this; Auto-merge is governed by a separate, much stricter contract (see Principle 1, *narrow auto-merge carve-out* below).
+3. **No standing pre-approvals.** A skill MUST NOT support a config switch that says "auto-approve every X-class proposal". The boundary between Agentic Drafting (agent-authored fix with human review) and Agentic Autonomous (narrowly-scoped auto-merge) is exactly this; Agentic Autonomous is governed by a separate, much stricter contract (see Principle 1, *narrow auto-merge carve-out* below).
4. **Drafts, never sends.** Outbound communication (email, chat) is **drafted** by the agent and stored in the communication system's drafts folder. The maintainer reviews and presses Send. The framework MUST NOT have a "yes, send the draft" path that bypasses the human read.
5. **Audit log of every confirmation.** Every applied state change writes a structured audit-log entry: timestamp, maintainer identity, proposal text, applied diff, triggering skill. Open-source maintenance is a public-trust activity; the trail makes future review possible.
### Narrow auto-merge carve-out
-Auto-merge ("narrowly-scoped fix-and-merge", in Apache Magpie's terminology) is the explicit exception. It permits auto-merge, but only after **all** of the following gate conditions hold:
+Agentic Autonomous ("limited fix-and-merge", in Apache Magpie's terminology) is the explicit exception. It permits auto-merge, but only after **all** of the following gate conditions hold:
- The change class is on a per-project, per-class allow-list (lint fixes, dependency bumps within an allow-list, license headers, formatting, broken-link repair). Security-class changes are explicitly out.
-- The project has been running Triage, Mentoring, and Drafting with HITL confirmation for at least two release cycles, and a contributor-sentiment evaluation says the project is healthier, not just faster.
+- The project has been running Agentic Triage, Agentic Mentoring, and Agentic Drafting with HITL confirmation for at least two release cycles, and a contributor-sentiment evaluation says the project is healthier, not just faster.
- Every auto-merged change is reversibly logged; reverts are one keystroke away.
The carve-out exists because lint-rebase-format has marginal human value and should not require a human in the loop forever. It is **off by default** in the reference implementation. A project that turns it on without first running the manual loop has skipped the proof.
@@ -415,4 +415,4 @@ The Apache Magpie project is happy to consult on the lift — see [`MISSION.md`
## Acknowledgements
-This RFC distils principles operationalised in the Apache Magpie reference implementation. The PMC roster and collaborator list (see [`MISSION.md`](https://github.com/apache/magpie/blob/main/MISSION.md)) includes the people whose discussion, code, and incident-review work shaped these principles. The framing of the principles here owes a particular debt to the 2026-05 prompt-injection audit ([gist](https://gist.github.com/andrew/0bc8bdaac6902656ccf3b1400ad160f0)) that surfaced the Princi [...]
+This RFC distils principles operationalised in the Apache Magpie reference implementation. The PMC roster and collaborator list (see [`MISSION.md`](https://github.com/apache/magpie/blob/main/MISSION.md)) includes the people whose discussion, code, and incident-review work shaped these principles. The framing of the principles here owes a particular debt to the 2026-05 prompt-injection audit ([gist](https://gist.github.com/andrew/0bc8bdaac6902656ccf3b1400ad160f0)) that surfaced the Princi [...]
diff --git a/docs/security/README.md b/docs/security/README.md
index a3d7f788..0937bd94 100644
--- a/docs/security/README.md
+++ b/docs/security/README.md
@@ -17,6 +17,11 @@
# Security workflow skill family
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not. The ASF intake
+> path (`security@`, Vulnogram CVE flow) is the default profile; non-ASF
+> adopters swap it for GitHub Security Advisories / a MITRE CNA through the
+> adapter/config layer.
+
End-to-end automation for an ASF project's security-issue handling
process — from inbound report on the project's `security@` mailing
list through to a published CVE record on `cve.org`. Nine skills
diff --git a/docs/security/how-to-fix-a-security-issue.md b/docs/security/how-to-fix-a-security-issue.md
index ab3ee4ea..d0d65736 100644
--- a/docs/security/how-to-fix-a-security-issue.md
+++ b/docs/security/how-to-fix-a-security-issue.md
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ page is the two-minute summary.
airflow-s adopter, the foundation-wide relay is
`security@apache.org`.)
-2. **Triage.**
+2. **Agentic Triage.**
A rotating triager imports new reports into the private
`<tracker>` repository (see the
[`security-issue-import`](../../skills/security-issue-import/SKILL.md)
diff --git a/docs/security/threat-model.md b/docs/security/threat-model.md
index 91eef243..7ef275d9 100644
--- a/docs/security/threat-model.md
+++ b/docs/security/threat-model.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
- [Asset inventory](#asset-inventory)
- [STRIDE matrix per skill family](#stride-matrix-per-skill-family)
- [Skill family A — Inbound import](#skill-family-a--inbound-import)
- - [Skill family B — Triage and reconciliation](#skill-family-b--triage-and-reconciliation)
+ - [Skill family B — Agentic Triage and reconciliation](#skill-family-b--agentic-triage-and-reconciliation)
- [Skill family C — CVE allocation](#skill-family-c--cve-allocation)
- [Skill family D — Public remediation](#skill-family-d--public-remediation)
- [Skill family E — Closure](#skill-family-e--closure)
@@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ This document is the authoritative threat model for that automation.
It enumerates the trust boundaries, the adversaries that may attack
each boundary, the asset each adversary is after, and the
mitigations the framework relies on. It is a release-blocking
-artefact: a Drafting skill that touches a security tracker without
+artefact: an Agentic Drafting skill that touches a security tracker without
a STRIDE row in this document is, by construction, unreviewed.
The intended readers are:
- security-team members evaluating whether to enable a skill in
- Triage or Drafting against their tracker;
+ Agentic Triage or Agentic Drafting against their tracker;
- contributors proposing a new skill in the security family or a
change that crosses one of the trust boundaries below;
- the governance body identified by `governance.cve_allocation_gate`
@@ -99,12 +99,12 @@ In scope for this document:
The following are out of scope and should be addressed in their
own threat model when they are introduced:
-- Auto-merge auto-merge — not implemented in v1; see
- [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). When proposed, Auto-merge requires
+- Agentic Autonomous auto-merge — not implemented in v1; see
+ [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). When proposed, Agentic Autonomous requires
its own threat model entry and a separate foundation-level security
review (named example: ASF Security review for `airflow-s`).
-- generic Drafting beyond `security-issue-fix` — proposed but not
- shipped. Each new Drafting skill ships with its own STRIDE row in
+- generic Agentic Drafting beyond `security-issue-fix` — proposed but not
+ shipped. Each new Agentic Drafting skill ships with its own STRIDE row in
the [STRIDE matrix](#stride-matrix-per-skill-family).
- the underlying LLM provider's infrastructure — treated as a
trusted component subject to its own provider-side threat model.
@@ -127,11 +127,11 @@ The threat model is valid only while these assumptions hold. A
violation of any assumption invalidates the corresponding mitigation
and triggers a re-audit.
-1. **The maintainer reviewing a Drafting output is competent and
- acting in good faith.** Drafting ships agent-authored fixes
+1. **The maintainer reviewing an Agentic Drafting output is competent and
+ acting in good faith.** Agentic Drafting ships agent-authored fixes
gated on human review; the human is the final defence against
- subtle agent error. A maintainer who rubber-stamps Drafting output
- collapses Drafting into Auto-merge, which is explicitly out of scope.
+ subtle agent error. A maintainer who rubber-stamps Agentic Drafting output
+ collapses Agentic Drafting into Agentic Autonomous, which is explicitly out of scope.
2. **The agent host's filesystem sandbox is enforced by the runtime,
not by the agent's good behaviour.** `permissions.deny` entries
are advisory and visible to the agent; `sandbox.filesystem.denyRead`
@@ -168,9 +168,9 @@ and triggers a re-audit.
- **Embargo window** — the period between a report arriving on
`<security-list>` and the public advisory being published. During
this window the existence and detail of the issue are confidential.
-- **Triage / Mentoring / Drafting / Auto-merge** — see [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). Triage
- is read-only triage; Mentoring is mentoring; Drafting is agent-authored
- PRs gated on human review; Auto-merge is auto-merge (not shipped).
+- **Agentic Triage / Agentic Mentoring / Agentic Drafting / Agentic Autonomous** — see [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). Agentic Triage
+ is read-only triage; Agentic Mentoring is mentoring; Agentic Drafting is agent-authored
+ PRs gated on human review; Agentic Autonomous is auto-merge (not shipped).
- **Privileged egress** — any agent action that publishes content
outside the agent host: a comment on the public upstream, a CVE
record submission, a mailing-list reply, a `gh pr create`.
@@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ Skills: [`security-issue-import`](../../skills/security-issue-import/SKILL.md),
| ID | STRIDE | Adversary | Boundary | Threat | Mitigation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
-| A.1 | T (Tampering) | P1 | B1 | Reporter embeds prompt-injection in mail body to alter import classification. | M.1 (redactor input pass), M.2 (instruction-data separation), M.6 (Triage is read-only on upstream). |
+| A.1 | T (Tampering) | P1 | B1 | Reporter embeds prompt-injection in mail body to alter import classification. | M.1 (redactor input pass), M.2 (instruction-data separation), M.6 (Agentic Triage is read-only on upstream). |
| A.2 | I (Info disclosure) | P1 | B1→B3 | Mail body contains a "please confirm receipt with full prior thread" payload aimed at making the agent reply with tracker contents. | M.3 (canned-response templates only), M.4 (no auto-reply on import — Step 1 is human-acknowledged). |
| A.3 | T | P1 | B1 | Markdown report file contains crafted YAML/JSON front-matter to alter `security-issue-import-from-md` behaviour. | M.1, M.5 (front-matter ignored unless on a known allowlist). |
| A.4 | E (Elevation of privilege) | P1 | B1 | Mail body asks the agent to "now act as security-issue-fix and apply this patch upstream". | M.7 (skill-scope discipline — a skill cannot invoke another skill mid-run), M.6. |
@@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ Skills: [`security-issue-import`](../../skills/security-issue-import/SKILL.md),
| A.6 | R (Repudiation) | P1 | B2 | Reporter later denies having submitted the report. | M.9 (full mail headers archived in the tracker on import; the public `archive_system.*` archive is the canonical source — named example: ASF's `lists.apache.org` for `airflow-s`). |
| A.7 | D (Denial of service) | P1 | B1, B5 | Reporter floods `<security-list>` with thousands of bogus messages to exhaust the agent's import budget or `gh` rate-limit. | M.10 (mailing-list moderation is delegated to the foundation/operator running `<security-list>`; the agent has no rate-limit posture of its own — accepted, see [residual risk](#residual-risk-and-accepted-gaps)). |
-### Skill family B — Triage and reconciliation
+### Skill family B — Agentic Triage and reconciliation
Skills: [`security-issue-sync`](../../skills/security-issue-sync/SKILL.md),
[`security-issue-deduplicate`](../../skills/security-issue-deduplicate/SKILL.md),
@@ -455,8 +455,8 @@ Skill: [`security-issue-fix`](../../skills/security-issue-fix/SKILL.md).
| D.1 | I | P2 | B3, B4 | The PR title or body uses words ("security", "CVE", "vulnerability", "exploit") that confirm an embargoed issue. | M.20 (`security-issue-fix` scrubs framing terms from PR title/body until Step 14; Step 8 of [`process.md`](process.md) gives the canonical phrasings). |
| D.2 | I | P2 | B3 | The patch itself is so narrowly-scoped to the vulnerable code path that reading it discloses the bug. | M.21 (accepted residual; see [residual risk](#residual-risk-and-accepted-gaps) — the patch *is* the disclosure once committed publicly; embargo length minimised, not eliminated). |
| D.3 | T | P3 | B5 | A compromised dependency injects an extra commit into the fix branch. | M.22 (commit signing required; the human reviewer verifies the signed commit matches the agent-authored output). |
-| D.4 | E | P1 | B1→B3 | An injection in the tracker body makes the agent open a PR that reverts a prior security fix or weakens a check. | M.1, M.23 (Drafting requires human review; the maintainer is the final defence per [Assumption 1](#assumptions)). |
-| D.5 | I | P5 | B3, B4 | An insider's `git commit -am` accidentally includes an unrelated tracker scratch file in the public PR. | M.24 (the agent's `git add` is path-scoped to the patched files; an open question on Mentoring mentoring assistance — see [residual risk](#residual-risk-and-accepted-gaps)). |
+| D.4 | E | P1 | B1→B3 | An injection in the tracker body makes the agent open a PR that reverts a prior security fix or weakens a check. | M.1, M.23 (Agentic Drafting requires human review; the maintainer is the final defence per [Assumption 1](#assumptions)). |
+| D.5 | I | P5 | B3, B4 | An insider's `git commit -am` accidentally includes an unrelated tracker scratch file in the public PR. | M.24 (the agent's `git add` is path-scoped to the patched files; an open question on Agentic Mentoring mentoring assistance — see [residual risk](#residual-risk-and-accepted-gaps)). |
| D.6 | R | P5 | B2, B3 | After release, attribution between the agent's authoring and the human reviewer's approval is disputed. | M.9, M.25 (the public commit carries a `Generated-by:` trailer for the agent and a `Signed-off-by:` line for the human reviewer; `Co-Authored-By:` for agents is forbidden, so an agent cannot be misattributed as a human author). |
### Skill family E — Closure
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ describes it.
| M.3 | Canned-response templates only for reporter-facing replies. | [`projects/_template/canned-responses.md`](../../projects/_template/canned-responses.md). |
| M.4 | No auto-reply on inbound import. Step 1 acknowledgement is human-authored. | [`process.md` Step 1](process.md#step-1--report-arrives-on-security). |
| M.5 | Front-matter on imported markdown reports is ignored unless on the documented allowlist. | [`security-issue-import-from-md/SKILL.md`](../../skills/security-issue-import-from-md/SKILL.md). |
-| M.6 | Triage is read-only on the upstream public repository. | [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). |
+| M.6 | Agentic Triage is read-only on the upstream public repository. | [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). |
| M.7 | Skill-scope discipline by authoring convention — each `SKILL.md` declares its own scope and does not chain into other skills mid-run. **Not** runtime-enforced; the discipline is a function of how the skills are written and reviewed. The residual gap (an injection that successfully prompts the agent to behave as a different skill) is captured in [residual risk #9](#residual-risk-and-accepted-gaps). | Per-skill [`SKILL.md`](../../skills/) authoring; not a runtime control. |
| M.8 | Identity claims in inbound mail are not trusted; mail headers are recorded but not used for authorisation. | Skill family A behaviour. |
| M.9 | Every agent-driven state transition is recorded as a tracker comment attributable to the agent's bot identity. | Skill behaviour; the bot identity is configured per adopter in `projects/<adopter>/project.md`. |
@@ -561,7 +561,7 @@ describes it.
| M.20 | `security-issue-fix` scrubs embargo-framing terms from PR title and body until Step 14. | [`security-issue-fix/SKILL.md`](../../skills/security-issue-fix/SKILL.md). |
| M.21 | Embargo window is minimised by promptly merging and releasing once the fix is reviewed; the diff itself is accepted as a controlled disclosure. | [`process.md` Steps 11 and 12](process.md). |
| M.22 | Commit signing is expected on the fix branch by adopter policy; the human reviewer verifies the signed commit chain matches the agent's authored set. | Maintainer / adopter process; **not framework-enforceable** — see [residual risk #10](#residual-risk-and-accepted-gaps). |
-| M.23 | Drafting is gated on human review; the maintainer is the last line of defence on agent-authored fixes. | [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). |
+| M.23 | Agentic Drafting is gated on human review; the maintainer is the last line of defence on agent-authored fixes. | [`docs/modes.md`](../modes.md). |
| M.24 | The agent's `git add` is path-scoped to the patched files. | [`security-issue-fix/SKILL.md`](../../skills/security-issue-fix/SKILL.md). |
| M.25 | Agent authorship is recorded via a `Generated-by:` commit trailer in the public commit (per [`AGENTS.md` Commit and PR conventions](../../AGENTS.md#commit-and-pr-conventions) and [`security-issue-fix/SKILL.md`](../../skills/security-issue-fix/SKILL.md)). `Co-Authored-By:` is **forbidden** for agents per the same section — agents are assistants, not authors. The trailer is part of the public commit metadata and survives merge. | [`AGENTS.md`](../../AGENTS.md#commit-and-pr-convent [...]
| M.26 | The agent will not draft the CVE-record submission until the public advisory URL is present in the tracker. | [`security-issue-sync/SKILL.md`](../../skills/security-issue-sync/SKILL.md). |
@@ -579,7 +579,7 @@ the trigger that would force a re-evaluation.
identified that the redactor contract (M.1) describes the
*what* but not *which skills call the redactor at which step*.
v1 ships the redactor; v1.1 ships the per-skill wiring. **Trigger
- for re-eval:** any new Drafting skill, or any reported false-negative
+ for re-eval:** any new Agentic Drafting skill, or any reported false-negative
from the redactor on a skill that does not yet wire it explicitly.
2. **Mailing-list flood (A.7) has no framework-side rate limit.**
The agent will process whatever the mailing-list moderator lets
@@ -657,9 +657,9 @@ the trigger that would force a re-evaluation.
This document is release-blocking and time-bounded. The cadences
below are the framework's commitment.
-- **On every new Drafting skill** — the proposing PR must add a
+- **On every new Agentic Drafting skill** — the proposing PR must add a
STRIDE row to the matching skill family in [STRIDE matrix per
- skill family](#stride-matrix-per-skill-family). A Drafting skill
+ skill family](#stride-matrix-per-skill-family). An Agentic Drafting skill
without a row does not pass review.
- **On every change to `.claude/settings.json`** — the proposing
PR must update the [Trust boundaries](#trust-boundaries) and
@@ -674,7 +674,7 @@ below are the framework's commitment.
as PRs that update this document and (if applicable) the
[`process.md`](process.md) flow.
- **Pre-release audit** — every framework release that bumps the
- major version, or that ships a new Drafting skill, requires a fresh
+ major version, or that ships a new Agentic Drafting skill, requires a fresh
pass over [Assumptions](#assumptions), [Adversaries](#adversaries),
and [Residual risk](#residual-risk-and-accepted-gaps).
diff --git a/docs/setup/README.md b/docs/setup/README.md
index f26c2d3c..19986440 100644
--- a/docs/setup/README.md
+++ b/docs/setup/README.md
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@
# Setup skill family
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not — no
+> Apache-Software-Foundation-specific assumptions baked in.
+
The **setup** skill family is the prerequisite for running any
framework skill. It walks a new adopter (or a fresh dev machine on
an existing adopter) through the secure-agent install — pinned
diff --git a/docs/utilities/README.md b/docs/utilities/README.md
index cb1da8cd..0fa6e5ba 100644
--- a/docs/utilities/README.md
+++ b/docs/utilities/README.md
@@ -16,10 +16,14 @@
# Utilities skill family
+> **Scope — `asf: false`.** Works on any project, ASF or not — no
+> Apache-Software-Foundation-specific assumptions baked in.
+
Framework meta-skills — the tools you use to **build and maintain skills
themselves**, rather than to run a maintainership mode on your project. They
-sit outside the MISSION mode taxonomy (Triage, Mentoring, Drafting, Pairing,
-Auto-merge): nothing here acts on your issues, PRs, or contributor threads.
+sit outside the MISSION mode taxonomy (Agentic Triage, Agentic Mentoring,
+Agentic Drafting, Agentic Pairing, Agentic Autonomous): nothing here acts on
+your issues, PRs, or contributor threads.
They are for skill authors and framework contributors.
---
diff --git a/projects/_template/good-first-issue-config.md b/projects/_template/good-first-issue-config.md
index 5ec01586..3837a616 100644
--- a/projects/_template/good-first-issue-config.md
+++ b/projects/_template/good-first-issue-config.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
This file configures the
[`good-first-issue-author`](../../skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md)
-skill (Mentoring, `experimental`). Copy it into your own
+skill (Agentic Mentoring, `experimental`). Copy it into your own
`<project-config>/good-first-issue-config.md` and replace every
`<placeholder>` with your project's value. If a required key is missing,
the skill aborts and points back here rather than guessing.
diff --git a/projects/_template/mentoring-config.md b/projects/_template/mentoring-config.md
index a0a0ce8c..7fdcdc05 100644
--- a/projects/_template/mentoring-config.md
+++ b/projects/_template/mentoring-config.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
<!-- DON'T EDIT THIS SECTION, INSTEAD RE-RUN doctoc TO UPDATE -->
**Table of Contents** *generated with [DocToc](https://github.com/thlorenz/doctoc)*
-- [TODO: `<Project Name>` — mentoring (Mentoring) configuration](#todo-project-name--mentoring-mentoring-configuration)
+- [TODO: `<Project Name>` — mentoring (Agentic Mentoring) configuration](#todo-project-name--mentoring-agentic-mentoring-configuration)
- [Identifiers](#identifiers)
- [Convention pointers](#convention-pointers)
- [Out-of-scope topics](#out-of-scope-topics)
@@ -13,13 +13,13 @@
<!-- SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
-# TODO: `<Project Name>` — mentoring (Mentoring) configuration
+# TODO: `<Project Name>` — mentoring (Agentic Mentoring) configuration
-**This file is a placeholder ahead of the Mentoring skill landing.**
-The skill does not exist yet (Mentoring is proposed per
+**This file is a placeholder ahead of the Agentic Mentoring skill landing.**
+The skill does not exist yet (Agentic Mentoring is proposed per
[`docs/modes.md`](../../docs/modes.md#mentoring)).
The keys below match the
-[Mentoring spec](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md#adopter-contract)
+[Agentic Mentoring spec](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md#adopter-contract)
and are the values the future skill will read.
Copy this file into your own
diff --git a/skills/audit-finding-fix/SKILL.md b/skills/audit-finding-fix/SKILL.md
index e1f7d9ae..d810cc8b 100644
--- a/skills/audit-finding-fix/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/audit-finding-fix/SKILL.md
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ finding is cleared. The entire batch is committed on a single
branch and handed back for human review. The skill **stops before
opening a PR**.
-This skill is the generic-Drafting companion to
+This skill is the generic-Agentic Drafting companion to
[`issue-fix-workflow`](../issue-fix-workflow/SKILL.md) (which
handles issue-tracker bugs and feature requests) and
[`security-issue-fix`](../security-issue-fix/SKILL.md) (which
diff --git a/skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md b/skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md
index a6e10b00..d71d0c9f 100644
--- a/skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/dependency-audit/SKILL.md
@@ -271,4 +271,4 @@ human confirmation of exploitability and impact.
- `docs/repo-health/README.md` — family overview and candidate skill
descriptions (ships with the `repo-health-family-spec` branch).
- [`tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md`](../../tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md) —
- the Triage-mode spec this skill's family lives under.
+ the Agentic Triage-mode spec this skill's family lives under.
diff --git a/skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md b/skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md
index 515f78a6..8502dc3b 100644
--- a/skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ license: Apache-2.0
# good-first-issue-author
-**Status: experimental.** A Mentoring
+**Status: experimental.** A Agentic Mentoring
([conversational mentoring](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md)) skill that
attacks onboarding latency from the supply side: it manufactures the
single cheapest on-ramp a project can offer a first-time contributor, a
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ design or deprecation decision, or missing the inputs a newcomer needs),
the skill says so and exits without drafting. Declining is a feature, not
a failure: a bad good first issue costs more than no issue.
-The Mentoring spec (scope, register, hand-off rules, adopter knobs) lives
+The Agentic Mentoring spec (scope, register, hand-off rules, adopter knobs) lives
in [`docs/mentoring/spec.md`](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md). This
SKILL.md is the runtime; the detail files break the loop out
topic-by-topic:
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ candidate's actual merits, not the injected instruction.
grooming pass supplied. It does not propose tasks the project has not
decided it wants.
- **Author fixes.** It writes the issue, never the PR that closes it.
- Implementation is the contributor's, with Pairing/Drafting support if
+ Implementation is the contributor's, with Agentic Pairing/Agentic Drafting support if
the project enables it.
- **Comment on threads.** Teaching-register replies on an existing thread
are [`pr-management-mentor`](../pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md).
@@ -213,12 +213,12 @@ candidate's actual merits, not the injected instruction.
## Cross-references
- [`docs/mentoring/spec.md`](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md) — the
- Mentoring spec this skill serves.
+ Agentic Mentoring spec this skill serves.
- [`docs/mentoring/README.md`](../../docs/mentoring/README.md) —
family overview and status.
- [`docs/modes.md` § Mentoring](../../docs/modes.md#mentoring) —
current implementation status.
- [`pr-management-mentor`](../pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md) — the
- sibling Mentoring skill (thread replies, not issue authoring).
-- [`MISSION.md` § Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) — the
+ sibling Agentic Mentoring skill (thread replies, not issue authoring).
+- [`MISSION.md` § Agentic Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) — the
onboarding-latency framing this skill targets.
diff --git a/skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md b/skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md
index 075540ce..27b88ea2 100644
--- a/skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/mentoring-welcome/SKILL.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ license: Apache-2.0
# mentoring-welcome
-**Status: experimental.** A Mentoring
+**Status: experimental.** A Agentic Mentoring
([conversational mentoring](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md)) skill that
greets a first-time contributor with orientation context on their very
first issue or PR: the contributing guide, community norms, expected
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ If the author is not a first-time contributor, the skill exits silently.
The agent's silence is a feature: it does not spam repeat contributors
with orientation they have already internalized.
-The Mentoring spec (scope, tone, hand-off rules, adopter knobs) lives in
+The Agentic Mentoring spec (scope, tone, hand-off rules, adopter knobs) lives in
[`docs/mentoring/spec.md`](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md). This SKILL.md
is the runtime; detail files break out the orientation content:
@@ -173,8 +173,8 @@ confirmation; the maintainer decides whether to notify the team.
hand-off immediately.
- **Auto-fire.** Every invocation is opt-in by a maintainer. No cron,
no webhook, no auto-trigger — the same constraint that governs every
- Mentoring skill.
-- **Tag or label the thread.** Labeling is Triage's job
+ Agentic Mentoring skill.
+- **Tag or label the thread.** Labeling is Agentic Triage's job
([`pr-management-triage`](../pr-management-triage/SKILL.md)).
- **Teach conventions.** Convention pointers on an existing thread belong
to [`pr-management-mentor`](../pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md). This
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ confirmation; the maintainer decides whether to notify the team.
## Cross-references
- [`docs/mentoring/spec.md`](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md) — the
- Mentoring spec this skill implements.
+ Agentic Mentoring spec this skill implements.
- [`docs/mentoring/README.md`](../../docs/mentoring/README.md) — family
overview and status.
- [`docs/modes.md` § Mentoring](../../docs/modes.md#mentoring) —
@@ -191,8 +191,8 @@ confirmation; the maintainer decides whether to notify the team.
- [`pr-management-mentor`](../pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md) — sibling
skill for teaching-register interventions on existing threads.
- [`good-first-issue-author`](../good-first-issue-author/SKILL.md) —
- the supply-side Mentoring skill that authors newcomer-ready issues.
+ the supply-side Agentic Mentoring skill that authors newcomer-ready issues.
- [`projects/_template/mentoring-welcome-config.md`](../../projects/_template/mentoring-welcome-config.md) —
adopter config scaffold.
-- [`MISSION.md` § Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
+- [`MISSION.md` § Agentic Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
onboarding-latency framing.
diff --git a/skills/mentoring-welcome/welcome-templates.md b/skills/mentoring-welcome/welcome-templates.md
index 9b57a68b..91fede3e 100644
--- a/skills/mentoring-welcome/welcome-templates.md
+++ b/skills/mentoring-welcome/welcome-templates.md
@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ Our [community norms](<code_of_conduct_url>) are also worth a quick read.
- Do not reword or expand the numbered steps. The steps are intentionally
minimal: the contributing guide is the authoritative source; the welcome
points there and steps aside.
-- The tone follows the Mentoring spec:
+- The tone follows the Agentic Mentoring spec:
[`docs/mentoring/spec.md`](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md#teaching-register--tone-guide).
Patient, specific, short. No praise, no hedging, no AI self-reference
outside the footer.
diff --git a/skills/pairing-multi-agent-review/SKILL.md b/skills/pairing-multi-agent-review/SKILL.md
index da8a4a82..f612e66b 100644
--- a/skills/pairing-multi-agent-review/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/pairing-multi-agent-review/SKILL.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ description: |
single structured report. Each pass is isolated so findings from one
axis cannot suppress or bias the others. The merged report uses the
same format as pairing-self-review so the developer gets a consistent
- signal regardless of which Pairing skill they invoke.
+ signal regardless of which Agentic Pairing skill they invoke.
when_to_use: |
Invoke when a developer says "multi-agent review my diff", "run all
three review passes", "fan-out review", "independent review passes",
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ license: Apache-2.0
# pairing-multi-agent-review
-This skill is the **multi-agent review pipeline** for the Pairing mode family.
+This skill is the **multi-agent review pipeline** for the Agentic Pairing mode family.
It fans a local diff through three independent, axis-focused review passes
and merges their findings into one structured report.
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ Collect the three JSON outputs from Step 2. Produce a merged findings list:
Compose the final merged self-review report using the same format as
`pairing-self-review`. This ensures a consistent output signal regardless of
-which Pairing skill the developer invokes.
+which Agentic Pairing skill the developer invokes.
```markdown
## Multi-agent pre-flight review
diff --git a/skills/pairing-self-review/SKILL.md b/skills/pairing-self-review/SKILL.md
index 22b4df40..95aa6283 100644
--- a/skills/pairing-self-review/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/pairing-self-review/SKILL.md
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ license: Apache-2.0
# pairing-self-review
-This skill is the **pre-flight self-review** entry point for the Pairing mode family.
+This skill is the **pre-flight self-review** entry point for the Agentic Pairing mode family.
It runs in the developer's own dev loop — after local changes are ready but before
opening a PR — and returns a structured review report. The report replaces
implementation-detail chatter so the eventual human-to-human conversation stays on
diff --git a/skills/pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md b/skills/pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md
index ceb1c12d..5ab93949 100644
--- a/skills/pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/pr-management-mentor/SKILL.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ license: Apache-2.0
# pr-management-mentor
-**Status: experimental.** First prototype of Mentoring
+**Status: experimental.** First prototype of Agentic Mentoring
([conversational mentoring](../../docs/mentoring/spec.md)). The
skill exists to make the spec executable on a single thread at
a time so we can iterate on tone wording, convention pointers,
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ answer, for the invoked thread, one question:
> what does it say?*
If the answer is "no" (thread is already on track, maintainer
-already engaging, scope exceeds Mentoring), the skill says so and
+already engaging, scope exceeds Agentic Mentoring), the skill says so and
exits without posting. The agent's silence is a feature, not a
failure.
@@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ is short on purpose — one comment in, one decision out:
audience.
3. **Out-of-scope check**. If the thread title or recent
comments touch any `out_of_scope_topics` entry, **do not
- draft**. Surface "this thread is out of Mentoring scope —
+ draft**. Surface "this thread is out of Agentic Mentoring scope —
handing off" and run the [hand-off](hand-off.md) flow.
4. **Maintainer-already-engaged check**. If a maintainer (login
in the configured committers team, see `pr-management-config.md →
@@ -176,10 +176,10 @@ maintainer reads the thread.
request-changes submissions.
[`pr-management-code-review`](../pr-management-code-review/SKILL.md)
owns that.
-- **Triage.** No labels, no draft toggles, no closes.
+- **Agentic Triage.** No labels, no draft toggles, no closes.
[`pr-management-triage`](../pr-management-triage/SKILL.md)
owns that.
-- **Authoring fixes.** No PRs opened. That is Drafting.
+- **Authoring fixes.** No PRs opened. That is Agentic Drafting.
- **Predicting maintainer decisions.** The skill never says
"the maintainers will probably want X". It says "a
maintainer will reply on this; in the meantime, here's the
@@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ maintainer reads the thread.
voice; the agent does not have a list-subscriber identity.
- **Auto-fire.** Every invocation is opt-in by a maintainer.
No cron, no webhook, no auto-trigger. Auto-fire is a
- Auto-merge-shaped problem and inherits Auto-merge's sequencing
+ Agentic Autonomous-shaped problem and inherits Agentic Autonomous's sequencing
constraint.
## Cross-references
@@ -203,5 +203,5 @@ maintainer reads the thread.
ships).
- [`projects/_template/mentoring-config.md`](../../projects/_template/mentoring-config.md) —
adopter scaffold.
-- [`MISSION.md` § Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
+- [`MISSION.md` § Agentic Mentoring](../../MISSION.md#technical-scope) —
RAI empowerment framing.
diff --git a/skills/pr-management-mentor/comment-templates.md b/skills/pr-management-mentor/comment-templates.md
index fdd628cf..1cf310af 100644
--- a/skills/pr-management-mentor/comment-templates.md
+++ b/skills/pr-management-mentor/comment-templates.md
@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Listed so reviewers see the choices and can push back.
agent posting "welcome to the project!" before the
maintainer has the chance is rude and cuts the maintainer
out of the relationship. If a project wants a welcome
- comment, that is a triage-level concern, not a Mentoring
+ comment, that is a triage-level concern, not a Agentic Mentoring
concern.
- **Closing comment**. The skill never posts on a thread it is
about to close — closing belongs to triage. If the
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Listed so reviewers see the choices and can push back.
skill exits without commenting and lets
[`pr-management-triage`](../pr-management-triage/SKILL.md)
handle the close.
-- **Approval / "looks good"**. Mentoring does not signal review
+- **Approval / "looks good"**. Agentic Mentoring does not signal review
outcomes. Even a casual "this looks like a good direction"
shifts contributor expectations.
[`pr-management-code-review`](../pr-management-code-review/SKILL.md)
diff --git a/skills/pr-management-mentor/tone-checks.md b/skills/pr-management-mentor/tone-checks.md
index fd46fdb7..fc83dac8 100644
--- a/skills/pr-management-mentor/tone-checks.md
+++ b/skills/pr-management-mentor/tone-checks.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ The checks run in order. The first failure stops the run.
| # | Rule | Detection |
|---|---|---|
-| 1 | No praise without specificity. | Reject if the draft contains "great question", "thanks for the contribution", "awesome", "amazing", "fantastic", "love this", or any standalone praise sentence (a sentence whose only content is positive affect). Praise *with* a specific reference ("nice catch on the off-by-one in `foo()`") is fine, but Mentoring does not have that information by construction; in practice this rule means: no praise. |
+| 1 | No praise without specificity. | Reject if the draft contains "great question", "thanks for the contribution", "awesome", "amazing", "fantastic", "love this", or any standalone praise sentence (a sentence whose only content is positive affect). Praise *with* a specific reference ("nice catch on the off-by-one in `foo()`") is fine, but Agentic Mentoring does not have that information by construction; in practice this rule means: no praise. |
| 2 | No restating the contributor's message. | Reject if the draft contains "so what you're saying is", "if I understand correctly", "you mentioned that", or any sentence whose content is a paraphrase of the contributor's most recent message. |
| 3 | No AI self-reference outside the footer. | Reject if the body (everything before `<ai_attribution_footer>`) contains "as an AI", "I'm an AI", "I cannot", "as a language model", "I was trained", "my training", or "I don't have access to". The footer says it once. The body says nothing. |
| 4 | No speaking for the maintainer. | Reject if the draft contains "the maintainers will probably", "the maintainers want", "the team would prefer", or any forward-looking claim about a maintainer decision. The skill says "a maintainer will reply" and stops. |
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ The checks run in order. The first failure stops the run.
| 7 | Footer present and verbatim. | Reject if the draft does not end with the literal `<ai_attribution_footer>` expansion from `<project-config>/mentoring-config.md`. Reject if anything follows the footer. |
| 8 | Author tagged once. | Reject if `@<author>` appears zero times or more than once. The first line tags; the rest of the comment does not. |
| 9 | No paraphrased docs. | Reject if the body contains a quoted block of more than two lines from a project doc. The convention is link, don't quote. |
-| 10 | No predictions about review outcome. | Reject if the draft contains "looks good", "this should be approved", "this will probably be merged", "I don't think this will land". Mentoring does not signal review outcomes. |
+| 10 | No predictions about review outcome. | Reject if the draft contains "looks good", "this should be approved", "this will probably be merged", "I don't think this will land". Agentic Mentoring does not signal review outcomes. |
---
@@ -67,5 +67,5 @@ Surfaced so reviewers can push back.
the right length depends on the intervention; a why-question
answer can legitimately need a few sentences of context.
- **Inclusivity / language scan.** Important, but lives in the
- framework's general writing standards, not in the Mentoring
+ framework's general writing standards, not in the Agentic Mentoring
tone checks specifically.
diff --git a/skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md b/skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md
index a11cc99e..efa93da6 100644
--- a/skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/release-verify-rc/SKILL.md
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ license: Apache-2.0
This skill is Step 6 of the
[release-management lifecycle](../../docs/release-management/process.md):
read-only verification of a staged release candidate before the
-`[VOTE]` thread opens (RM) or before a voter posts `+1` (voter Pairing
+`[VOTE]` thread opens (RM) or before a voter posts `+1` (voter Agentic Pairing
loop).
**This report is a mechanical aid, not a vote.** A `PASS` result does
diff --git a/skills/workflow-security-audit/SKILL.md b/skills/workflow-security-audit/SKILL.md
index c04ee7ae..53279a32 100644
--- a/skills/workflow-security-audit/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/workflow-security-audit/SKILL.md
@@ -289,4 +289,4 @@ require human confirmation.
- [`projects/_template/repo-health-config.md`](../../projects/_template/repo-health-config.md) —
adopter config: enabled rules, repo scope overrides.
- [`tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md`](../../tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md) —
- the Triage-mode spec this skill's family lives under.
+ the Agentic Triage-mode spec this skill's family lives under.
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md b/tools/spec-loop/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
index 5e74a876..afad7032 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/IMPLEMENTATION_PLAN.md
@@ -26,18 +26,18 @@ one PR** (the branch-per-feature constraint).
per work item; never pushes), `PROMPT_plan.md`, `PROMPT_build.md`,
`PROMPT_consolidate.md`, `AGENTS.md` (loop-scoped operational context),
and this plan. Branch-collision guard is inline in `loop.sh`.
-- **Pairing — both skills shipped** — `pairing-self-review` and
+- **Agentic Pairing — both skills shipped** — `pairing-self-review` and
`pairing-multi-agent-review` (three independent axis passes; eval
- suites present); `docs/modes.md` Pairing row reflects 2 skills /
+ suites present); `docs/modes.md` Agentic Pairing row reflects 2 skills /
`experimental`. Spec: [`specs/pairing-mode.md`](specs/pairing-mode.md).
-- **Mentoring — both skills shipped** — `pr-management-mentor` and
+- **Agentic Mentoring — both skills shipped** — `pr-management-mentor` and
`good-first-issue-author` (eval suites present); `docs/modes.md`
- Mentoring row reflects 2 skills / `experimental`.
+ Agentic Mentoring row reflects 2 skills / `experimental`.
Spec: [`specs/mentoring-mode.md`](specs/mentoring-mode.md).
- **Contributor skills** — `contributor-nomination`,
`contributor-activity-sweep`, and `committer-onboarding` shipped with
eval suites. Formerly tracked under draft PRs #227–#229.
-- **Drafting — issue-fix-workflow and audit-finding-fix skills** —
+- **Agentic Drafting — issue-fix-workflow and audit-finding-fix skills** —
both shipped with eval suites (covers generic drafting from triaged
issues and audit findings, formerly tracked as `generic-drafting` /
#296). Spec: [`specs/drafting-mode.md`](specs/drafting-mode.md).
@@ -64,11 +64,11 @@ one PR** (the branch-per-feature constraint).
and `release-verify-rc` landed with eval suites (formerly planned work
items 1–2 plus two follow-ups). Six `release-*` skills remain; see
[`specs/release-management-lifecycle.md`](specs/release-management-lifecycle.md).
-- **Triage — general-issue family filled out** — `issue-stale-sweep`,
+- **Agentic Triage — general-issue family filled out** — `issue-stale-sweep`,
`issue-deduplicate`, and `issue-backlog-stats` shipped with eval suites
(formerly planned work item 3 plus its deferred siblings).
Spec: [`specs/triage-mode.md`](specs/triage-mode.md).
-- **Mentoring — first-contribution welcome shipped** — `mentoring-welcome`
+- **Agentic Mentoring — first-contribution welcome shipped** — `mentoring-welcome`
landed with an eval suite (formerly planned work item 4).
Spec: [`specs/mentoring-mode.md`](specs/mentoring-mode.md).
- **Project-agnosticism — ASF-coupling advisory lint shipped** — the SOFT
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ one PR** (the branch-per-feature constraint).
`workflow-security-audit`, and `dependency-audit` landed (read-only,
`experimental`). Spec: [`specs/repo-health-family.md`](specs/repo-health-family.md).
- **New proposed specs awaiting their first build item** —
- [`specs/reviewer-routing.md`](specs/reviewer-routing.md) (Triage) and
+ [`specs/reviewer-routing.md`](specs/reviewer-routing.md) (Agentic Triage) and
[`specs/skill-reconciler.md`](specs/skill-reconciler.md) (infra) are
documented spec-first; their build items are below.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ slugs, not numbers (numbering implies an order the specs don't carry).
1. **First reviewer-routing skill: reviewer-routing.**
`specs/reviewer-routing.md` is `proposed` with zero implemented
skills, and review-cycle latency is one of the two priorities MISSION
- names. Add a Triage-family skill `reviewer-routing` that takes an open
+ names. Add an Agentic Triage-family skill `reviewer-routing` that takes an open
issue or PR and proposes a primary reviewer (and optional backup) from
the project's configured roster, scored on roster eligibility for the
touched area, git-history familiarity with the changed paths, and the
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ slugs, not numbers (numbering implies an order the specs don't carry).
are in the repo's `ask` permission list and are the human's step.
- Validation per work item lives in the relevant spec's **Validation**
section; the build prompt runs it as backpressure before committing.
-- Auto-merge is deliberately off and has no work items — building toward
+- Agentic Autonomous is deliberately off and has no work items — building toward
it would skip the proof MISSION requires.
- When a build iteration creates a new skill, its eval suite is part of
that same work item — not a separate one.
@@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ slugs, not numbers (numbering implies an order the specs don't carry).
`release-promote`, `release-archive-sweep`, `release-audit-report`)
should be planned in subsequent passes now that the first four have
established the skill-authoring patterns for this family.
-- **Triage contributor-growth gaps** (PMC-member nomination,
+- **Agentic Triage contributor-growth gaps** (PMC-member nomination,
emeritus-committer handling, contributor offboarding) noted in
`triage-mode.md` Known Gaps are intentionally deferred: they are
vague enough that a spec-RFC conversation is more appropriate than
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/PROMPT_plan.md b/tools/spec-loop/PROMPT_plan.md
index 709dfd4b..91489543 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/PROMPT_plan.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/PROMPT_plan.md
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ Steps:
of work items. Each work item names: the change, the spec it serves,
its **Validation** command, and a branch slug (`<slug>`, the bare
slug — **no `spec/` or other prefix, no numbers**).
-5. Do NOT create work items against an `off` spec (e.g. Auto-merge) —
+5. Do NOT create work items against an `off` spec (e.g. Agentic Autonomous) —
that would skip the proof MISSION requires.
Rules:
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/README.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/README.md
index 18884fc4..4792e142 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/README.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/README.md
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ Start with [`overview.md`](overview.md), then:
[`reviewer-routing.md`](reviewer-routing.md),
[`skill-reconciler.md`](skill-reconciler.md).
-(Auto-merge, the fifth MISSION mode, is deliberately off and has no
+(Agentic Autonomous, the fifth MISSION mode, is deliberately off and has no
spec — see the note in [`overview.md`](overview.md).)
## Spec format
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/contributor-growth.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/contributor-growth.md
index f3eb30da..d7cec91f 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/contributor-growth.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/contributor-growth.md
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ mode: Triage
source: >
MISSION.md § Rationale ("Project health depends on a growing contributor
base"). triage-mode.md § Known gaps (contributor-growth skills span
- Triage and Mentoring but are not yet a named family).
+ Agentic Triage and Agentic Mentoring but are not yet a named family).
mentoring-mode.md § Known gaps. Implemented by contributor-nomination,
contributor-activity-sweep, committer-onboarding, good-first-issue-author,
and mentoring-welcome.
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ state change for human sign-off.
activity card are inputs for a PMC vote, not a pre-decided
recommendation.
- **Teaching register for first-contact.** `mentoring-welcome` and
- `good-first-issue-author` follow the Mentoring mode's tone
+ `good-first-issue-author` follow the Agentic Mentoring mode's tone
contract (polite, never gatekeeping) and hand off to a human
reviewer on anything that exceeds the agent's scope.
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ uv run --project tools/skill-and-tool-validator --group dev skill-and-tool-valid
before a skill can safely propose anything. These are candidate work
items once the active-path skills stabilise and an adopter pilot
surfaces the concrete policy knobs needed.
-- **Mode boundary with Mentoring is intentionally fuzzy.** Two family
+- **Mode boundary with Agentic Mentoring is intentionally fuzzy.** Two family
skills (`mentoring-welcome`, `good-first-issue-author`) carry
`mode: Mentoring` and are documented in [mentoring-mode.md](mentoring-mode.md);
three carry `mode: Triage`. A later family-maturity review may
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/drafting-mode.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/drafting-mode.md
index 53d996b0..8776401d 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/drafting-mode.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/drafting-mode.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
---
-title: Drafting mode
+title: Agentic Drafting mode
status: experimental
kind: feature
mode: Drafting
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ acceptance:
"vulnerability" from every public surface until the embargo lifts.
---
-# Drafting mode
+# Agentic Drafting mode
## What it does
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ merges its own work.
## Out of scope
-- Generic Drafting beyond the three shipped families (lint fixes at
+- Generic Agentic Drafting beyond the three shipped families (lint fixes at
scale, doc holes at scale) — `proposed`, not yet built.
- Merging, releasing, or pushing without a human.
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/issue-management-family.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/issue-management-family.md
index 02703431..22a96fa7 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/issue-management-family.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/issue-management-family.md
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ acceptance:
- issue-backlog-stats and issue-reassess-stats are strictly read-only;
no tracker state is mutated.
- All family skills validate under skill-and-tool-validate with no errors.
- - docs/modes.md Triage and Drafting tables carry each shipped
+ - docs/modes.md Agentic Triage and Agentic Drafting tables carry each shipped
issue-management skill.
---
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ tracker.
The canonical lifecycle a maintainer walks:
-1. **Triage** a candidate pool of open issues → classification + disposition.
+1. **Agentic Triage** a candidate pool of open issues → classification + disposition.
2. **Reproduce** a code-level bug to confirm it → structured verdict.
3. **Draft a fix** for a triaged confirmed bug or feature → branch +
commits + test results for human review and push.
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ and a consistent propose-before-act discipline.
## Behaviour & contract
-- **Read-only or propose-then-confirm.** Triage-mode skills never write
+- **Read-only or propose-then-confirm.** Agentic Triage-mode skills never write
a label, comment, or state change without the maintainer typing a
confirmation. The single exception class — dashboard skills
(`issue-backlog-stats`, `issue-reassess-stats`) — is unconditionally
@@ -211,6 +211,6 @@ uv run --project tools/skill-and-tool-validator --group dev skill-and-tool-valid
fixes exceed the skill's scope and must be handed back to a human-led
workflow. This boundary is intentional, not a tooling gap, but adopters
should be aware of it.
-- **`docs/modes.md` Triage table may not reflect newer skills.**
+- **`docs/modes.md` Agentic Triage table may not reflect newer skills.**
`issue-backlog-stats` and `issue-deduplicate` may not yet appear in the
- `docs/modes.md` Triage table; a docs-sync PR should verify and add them.
+ `docs/modes.md` Agentic Triage table; a docs-sync PR should verify and add them.
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/mentoring-mode.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/mentoring-mode.md
index aca916ea..9b90825f 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/mentoring-mode.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/mentoring-mode.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
---
-title: Mentoring mode
+title: Agentic Mentoring mode
status: experimental
kind: feature
mode: Mentoring
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ source: >
onboarding latency as one of the two loudest ecosystem complaints;
authoring newcomer-ready good first issues targets it directly.
acceptance:
- - The Mentoring spec (tone guide, hand-off protocol, adopter knobs) is
+ - The Agentic Mentoring spec (tone guide, hand-off protocol, adopter knobs) is
reviewable independently of any runtime skill (it already is).
- The first skill ships flagged mode Mentoring + experimental and joins
threads in a teaching register, never gatekeeps.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ acceptance:
skips repeat contributors.
---
-# Mentoring mode
+# Agentic Mentoring mode
## What it does
@@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ a project can offer a first-time contributor.
## Out of scope
-- Implementation-detail review that belongs to Pairing
+- Implementation-detail review that belongs to Agentic Pairing
([Pairing](pairing-mode.md)).
- Any contributor-facing message sent without human review.
- Curating or bulk-labeling the *existing* backlog as good first issues:
@@ -99,8 +99,8 @@ a project can offer a first-time contributor.
## Acceptance criteria
-1. The Mentoring spec is reviewable without any skill code (it is).
-2. The first Mentoring skill validates and carries `mode: Mentoring`.
+1. The Agentic Mentoring spec is reviewable without any skill code (it is).
+2. The first Agentic Mentoring skill validates and carries `mode: Mentoring`.
3. Hand-off-to-human is documented and enforced.
4. The `good-first-issue-author` skill validates, carries
`mode: Mentoring`, and produces a single newcomer-ready issue draft
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/overview.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/overview.md
index 3ba8ab0c..34001082 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/overview.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/overview.md
@@ -30,12 +30,12 @@ Each mode is an independently toggleable set of skills. Maturity mirrors
| Mode | Spec | Maturity |
|---|---|---|
-| Triage | [triage-mode.md](triage-mode.md) | stable (security) / experimental (PR, issue, contributor-nomination) |
-| Mentoring | [mentoring-mode.md](mentoring-mode.md) | experimental (3 skills) |
-| Drafting | [drafting-mode.md](drafting-mode.md) | stable (security) / experimental (issue, audit-finding-fix, release-announce-draft) |
-| Pairing | [pairing-mode.md](pairing-mode.md) | experimental (2 skills) |
+| Agentic Triage | [triage-mode.md](triage-mode.md) | stable (security) / experimental (PR, issue, contributor-nomination) |
+| Agentic Mentoring | [mentoring-mode.md](mentoring-mode.md) | experimental (3 skills) |
+| Agentic Drafting | [drafting-mode.md](drafting-mode.md) | stable (security) / experimental (issue, audit-finding-fix, release-announce-draft) |
+| Agentic Pairing | [pairing-mode.md](pairing-mode.md) | experimental (2 skills) |
-> **Auto-merge** is the fifth MISSION mode but is deliberately **off** by
+> **Agentic Autonomous** is the fifth MISSION mode but is deliberately **off** by
> sequencing policy (`.asf.yaml` `allow_auto_merge: false`) — it has no
> implementation and nothing to build, so it is documented as a boundary
> in [`docs/modes.md`](../../../docs/modes.md), not as a spec here.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ Each mode is an independently toggleable set of skills. Maturity mirrors
| Adapters (Gmail / PonyMail / Jira / GitHub / mail-source / forwarder-relay / mail-archive / github-body-field / github-rollup) | [adapters.md](adapters.md) |
| Project-agnosticism (de-ASF coupling) | [project-agnosticism.md](project-agnosticism.md) |
| Meta & quality tooling | [meta-and-quality-tooling.md](meta-and-quality-tooling.md) |
-| Reviewer routing (proposed, Triage) | [reviewer-routing.md](reviewer-routing.md) |
+| Reviewer routing (proposed, Agentic Triage) | [reviewer-routing.md](reviewer-routing.md) |
| Cross-project skill reconciler (proposed, infra) | [skill-reconciler.md](skill-reconciler.md) |
## The non-negotiables every area inherits
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/pairing-mode.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/pairing-mode.md
index a82edd88..44409743 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/pairing-mode.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/pairing-mode.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
---
-title: Pairing mode
+title: Agentic Pairing mode
status: experimental
kind: feature
mode: Pairing
@@ -11,18 +11,18 @@ source: >
least one Pairing skill family in v1"). docs/modes.md § Pairing
(experimental, 2 skills).
acceptance:
- - At least one Pairing skill exists and validates (v1 goal).
- - Pairing skills run in the developer's OWN dev loop and make no state
+ - At least one Agentic Pairing skill exists and validates (v1 goal).
+ - Agentic Pairing skills run in the developer's OWN dev loop and make no state
change on behalf of the project (read-only / hand-back).
- Mentorship is intrinsic: the agent handles implementation-detail
review so the human conversation stays on design and reasoning.
---
-# Pairing mode
+# Agentic Pairing mode
## What it does
-The developer-side counterpart to the project-side modes. Pairing skills
+The developer-side counterpart to the project-side modes. Agentic Pairing skills
run in a maintainer's or contributor's *own* dev loop: multi-agent review
pipelines, self-review and pre-flight patterns, and scoped fix drafting
under the developer's driver's seat. Mentorship is intrinsic — the agent
@@ -44,23 +44,23 @@ protecting the ASF contribution path (contributor → committer → PMC).
## Behaviour & contract
-- **No state change on the project's behalf.** Pairing skills are the
+- **No state change on the project's behalf.** Agentic Pairing skills are the
developer's toolkit; they end at a report or a local branch.
- Same skill format and sandbox/privacy posture as the project-side modes.
-- **Ships before Auto-merge** in the roadmap (MISSION sequencing): Pairing
+- **Ships before Agentic Autonomous** in the roadmap (MISSION sequencing): Agentic Pairing
must establish that human reasoning, not implementation chatter, is the
load-bearing part of the workflow before any auto-merge is considered.
## Out of scope
- Acting on issues/PRs/threads on the project's behalf (that is
- Triage/Mentoring/Drafting).
-- Auto-merge — deliberately off by MISSION sequencing; not built.
+ Agentic Triage/Agentic Mentoring/Agentic Drafting).
+- Agentic Autonomous — deliberately off by MISSION sequencing; not built.
## Acceptance criteria
-1. ≥1 Pairing skill exists, validates, and is read-only/hand-back.
-2. `docs/modes.md` Pairing row reflects the shipped count and status.
+1. ≥1 Agentic Pairing skill exists, validates, and is read-only/hand-back.
+2. `docs/modes.md` Agentic Pairing row reflects the shipped count and status.
3. `pairing-multi-agent-review` fans through three independent passes
and merges findings without cross-pass anchoring.
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/project-agnosticism.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/project-agnosticism.md
index ddbc345a..d38fcfec 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/project-agnosticism.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/project-agnosticism.md
@@ -59,16 +59,29 @@ The three mechanisms, in order of preference:
`projects/_template/`.
- The backend-flag precedent: `docs/release-management/README.md`
(§ adopter backends) and `projects/_template/release-management-config.md`.
+- The per-family **`asf:` metadata flag** (`asf: true` / `asf: false`),
+ declared in each family's scope banner at the top of
+ `docs/<family>/README.md` and surfaced in the **Scope** column of the
+ family tables in [`README.md`](../../../README.md#skill-families) and
+ [`docs/index.md`](../../../docs/index.md#need-help-with-one-of-these-adopt-a-family-of-skills).
+ Only **release-management** and **contributor-growth** carry `asf: true`:
+ their *core purpose* is an ASF Foundation process (the release lifecycle,
+ the contributor-to-committer path). This is a narrower lens than the
+ residual-coupling audit list below — a family can be `asf: false`
+ (generic core, runs anywhere) and still carry ASF-flavoured defaults that
+ the coupling audit tracks (security is the clearest case).
- The skills carrying residual ASF coupling to audit, by family:
- - **security**: `security@`-style intake and the ASF security-team
- relay (`security-issue-import-via-forwarder`), CVE allocation assuming
- an ASF CNA (`security-cve-allocate`), Vulnogram as the CVE tool.
- - **contributor / committer growth**: `committer-onboarding`
+ - **security** (`asf: false`): generic at its core, but ships an
+ ASF-flavoured default profile — `security@`-style intake and the ASF
+ security-team relay (`security-issue-import-via-forwarder`), CVE
+ allocation assuming an ASF CNA (`security-cve-allocate`), Vulnogram as
+ the CVE tool — all swappable for GHSA / MITRE-CNA via the config layer.
+ - **contributor / committer growth** (`asf: true`): `committer-onboarding`
(ICLA gate, PMC vote semantics, `dev@` announce),
`contributor-nomination` (committer-vs-PMC roster framing).
- - **release-management** (proposed): the whole ASF release ritual,
- already designed with backend flags; the audit confirms the non-ASF
- paths stay first-class as the skills land.
+ - **release-management** (`asf: true`, proposed): the whole ASF release
+ ritual, already designed with backend flags; the audit confirms the
+ non-ASF paths stay first-class as the skills land.
- any skill whose prose names `apache.org` lists, `svn` dist trees,
`incubator`, or ASF-only governance steps without a flag.
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/release-management-lifecycle.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/release-management-lifecycle.md
index 79c04cc9..4d6b1002 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/release-management-lifecycle.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/release-management-lifecycle.md
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ code lands.
consistency) and `release-audit-report` make no state change; voters can
run verification in their own dev loop before posting `+1`.
- **Promotion gated on health evidence, not throughput.** Moving any
- release-* skill from `experimental` to default-on, or from Drafting to a
+ release-* skill from `experimental` to default-on, or from Agentic Drafting to a
state-changing lane, requires evidence from Release Managers and binding
voters that the process is healthier (fewer stalled RCs, shorter
time-to-`[ANNOUNCE]`, fewer reverted promotions).
@@ -125,8 +125,8 @@ code lands.
- Holding, invoking, or proxying the RM's private signing key.
- Publishing the release: the `svn mv` promotion, the `[ANNOUNCE]` send,
and the site-bump merge are human acts.
-- A new mode. Release-management is a family spanning the existing Triage
- and Drafting modes; it introduces no new mode.
+- A new mode. Release-management is a family spanning the existing Agentic Triage
+ and Agentic Drafting modes; it introduces no new mode.
## Acceptance criteria
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/repo-health-family.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/repo-health-family.md
index bc186718..ab3e6673 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/repo-health-family.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/repo-health-family.md
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ acceptance:
human confirmation.
- ci-runner-audit validates under skill-and-tool-validate and ships an
eval suite.
- - docs/modes.md Triage table lists each shipped repo-health skill.
+ - docs/modes.md Agentic Triage table lists each shipped repo-health skill.
---
# Repo-health audits
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ flaky-test patterns. Every skill in the family produces a structured report
and proposes remedies for human review; no skill applies a change without
explicit maintainer confirmation.
-The family extends the Triage mode's classify-and-propose discipline to
+The family extends the Agentic Triage mode's classify-and-propose discipline to
repository maintenance. The canonical sequence is: fetch a bounded snapshot
of the target artefacts → classify each against a rule set → present a
grouped, prioritised report → wait for confirmation before any write.
@@ -82,8 +82,8 @@ grouped, prioritised report → wait for confirmation before any write.
humans act.
- **Continuous monitoring.** That is a CI / GitHub Actions job responsibility.
Each skill run is a triggered, bounded audit.
-- **Auto-merge of housekeeping changes.** Runner-label fixes and NOTICE
- updates are eligible for Auto-merge only once that mode is on; the
+- **Agentic Autonomous of housekeeping changes.** Runner-label fixes and NOTICE
+ updates are eligible for Agentic Autonomous only once that mode is on; the
repo-health skills never trigger a merge autonomously.
- **Security-class vulnerabilities.** CVE-rated dependency issues flow
through the security-issue lifecycle
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ grouped, prioritised report → wait for confirmation before any write.
human confirmation.
2. `ci-runner-audit` validates under `skill-and-tool-validate` and ships an
eval suite under `tools/skill-evals/evals/ci-runner-audit/`.
-3. `docs/modes.md` Triage table carries each shipped repo-health skill.
+3. `docs/modes.md` Agentic Triage table carries each shipped repo-health skill.
## Validation
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/reviewer-routing.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/reviewer-routing.md
index 9f3989ac..7e57a488 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/reviewer-routing.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/reviewer-routing.md
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ kind: feature
mode: Triage
source: >
MISSION.md § Rationale ("review-cycle latency" is one of the two named
- priorities) and § Technical scope (Triage: "proposes initial routing",
+ priorities) and § Technical scope (Agentic Triage: "proposes initial routing",
"proposes routing"). The substrate config already declares "who
reviews" (overview.md § Substrate; projects/_template adopter config),
but no skill turns that roster plus repository signal into an assignee
@@ -39,13 +39,13 @@ touched area, git-history familiarity with the changed paths, and the
reviewer's current open-review load so routing spreads work instead of
piling it on the most-recently-active person. The output is a proposal a
maintainer confirms; nothing is assigned on autopilot. This is the
-Triage-mode counterpart to `contributor-nomination` on the read-only
+Agentic Triage-mode counterpart to `contributor-nomination` on the read-only
side: a grounded brief a human acts on, not a state change.
## Where it lives
- Skill (proposed, not implemented): `reviewer-routing` under
- `skills/`, in the Triage family alongside `pr-management-triage` and
+ `skills/`, in the Agentic Triage family alongside `pr-management-triage` and
`issue-triage`.
- Roster source: the project's configured reviewer roster
(`projects/<project>/` adopter config; `pmc-roster.md` for ASF
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ side: a grounded brief a human acts on, not a state change.
- Assigning, requesting review, or labelling on the tracker (those are
human acts the maintainer performs after confirming).
-- Authoring or merging the change (Drafting / Auto-merge, not Triage).
+- Authoring or merging the change (Agentic Drafting / Agentic Autonomous, not Agentic Triage).
- Inventing a reviewer outside the roster, or routing on contributor
sentiment / performance ranking — the skill proposes who is best
placed to review a specific change, not who is a "better" maintainer.
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/security-issue-lifecycle.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/security-issue-lifecycle.md
index c070206e..62e2571e 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/security-issue-lifecycle.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/security-issue-lifecycle.md
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ publication, with a human gate and an audit-log entry at every step.
## Out of scope
-- Drafting beyond the security case (see [Drafting](drafting-mode.md)).
+- Agentic Drafting beyond the security case (see [Drafting](drafting-mode.md)).
- Sending mail — replies are drafted to the maintainer's outbox.
## Acceptance criteria
diff --git a/tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md b/tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md
index 7ad1cb25..d52d6068 100644
--- a/tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md
+++ b/tools/spec-loop/specs/triage-mode.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 -->
---
-title: Triage mode
+title: Agentic Triage mode
status: experimental
kind: feature
mode: Triage
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ acceptance:
stable; PR and general-issue triage are experimental.
---
-# Triage mode
+# Agentic Triage mode
## What it does
@@ -77,14 +77,14 @@ suggestion the human signs off on.
## Out of scope
-- Authoring fixes (that is Drafting, [Drafting](drafting-mode.md)).
+- Authoring fixes (that is Agentic Drafting, [Drafting](drafting-mode.md)).
- Any state change a human has not confirmed in-session.
## Acceptance criteria
1. No triage skill performs an unconfirmed state change.
2. `skill-and-tool-validate` passes on all triage-family skills.
-3. docs/modes.md Triage table matches the shipped skill set.
+3. docs/modes.md Agentic Triage table matches the shipped skill set.
## Validation
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ uv run --project tools/skill-and-tool-validator --group dev skill-and-tool-valid
family yet, so behaviour may change.
- **The contributor-growth skills span the path but are not yet a named
family.** `contributor-nomination`, `contributor-activity-sweep`,
- `committer-onboarding`, and `good-first-issue-author` (Mentoring) are
+ `committer-onboarding`, and `good-first-issue-author` (Agentic Mentoring) are
now all catalogued in the specs. Missing members of the
contributor-to-committer path: PMC-member nomination (distinct from
committer), emeritus / inactive-committer handling, and contributor