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docs(agents): replace the retired human promotion gate with self-promotion on readiness - #421

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This template's agent instructions still say a maintainer must promote every draft and that outside contributions are never merged. Both rules were retired portfolio-wide. Every repository created from this template inherits the stale text, so agents there would park finished work waiting for a promotion that is no longer coming.

What

Updates the maintenance guidance and the maintain skill to the current rule: agents self-promote a draft once it is tested, reviewed and tried as a user, then drive it to merge. Every PR reaches a terminal state, and an outside contributor's code is still never run locally. The trusted-author list matches the shared contract, and the legacy disclosure prefixes stay recognised.

Part of devantler-tech/monorepo#2534

…otion on readiness

The maintenance section still told agents that a maintainer promotes drafts
and that external PRs are never merged. Both rules were retired: drafts are
self-promoted once tested, reviewed at head and tried as a user, and every
PR is driven to a terminal state while external branches are never run
locally. The trusted-author list now matches the shared contract.

Part of devantler-tech/monorepo#2534

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Parked on #422, not on anything in this PR. The only failing check is Validate Scaffold, which has failed on every PR since the xunit.v3 4.0 bump on 2026-08-31. This change touches two Markdown files and cannot affect it. Review and promotion wait until #422 turns that check green, so this draft does not spend review capacity on a red build.

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The maintenance skill and AGENTS.md guidance were revised. The guidance now uses the Agentic Engineer name, requires draft PRs and defined readiness conditions, applies terminal-state handling to all open PRs, and prohibits local execution of external contributor branches. The trust-gate entries and generated-output prefix were also updated. Legacy output prefixes remain recognized.

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The inconsistent maintainer name may confuse onboarding, but it has no runtime impact.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly summarizes the main change: replacing the retired maintainer promotion gate with self-promotion based on readiness.
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In `@AGENTS.md`:
- Line 48: Update the maintainer name in README.md’s onboarding text from “Daily
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Comment thread AGENTS.md
The README's Agent-ready bullet still called the maintainer the Daily AI Assistant, which AGENTS.md now names the Agentic Engineer.

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Codex declined the review at 6c91030a because its usage limit is reached (reply at 16:51Z), so this round moves on to Cursor Bugbot.

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Cursor Bugbot could not run at 6c91030a: its check (104478664595) ended with an error at 16:54Z and reported a usage limit. All three review lanes are unavailable at this head, so a local review round follows.

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Self-review (fallback — CodeRabbit, Codex and Cursor Bugbot unavailable)

Reviewed commit: 6c91030aef556654f80bebe7be0f8f29e80c34f9

  • CodeRabbit: "Review rate limited" at 16:49Z; this repository's hourly review was used at 16:43Z for the previous head, whose one finding is fixed in this commit.
  • Codex: usage limit reached, reply at 16:51Z.
  • Cursor Bugbot: usage limit reached, check ended with an error at 16:54Z.

Scope: the ## Maintenance paragraph of AGENTS.md, the one-line body of .claude/skills/maintain/SKILL.md, and the README's Agent-ready bullet (added in 6c91030a to fix CodeRabbit's finding at c1abf939). The merge from main adds #423's changes, which were reviewed and merged separately.

  • Correctness against the shared contract: both texts now match the current rules. Drafts are self-promoted once tested, reviewed at the current head and tried as a user. Every PR, whoever opened it, reaches a terminal state. An outside contributor's branch is reviewed statically and never run locally. The trusted-author list matches the shared contract exactly: devantler, ksail-bot, dependabot[bot], github-actions[bot], renovate[bot]. The retired claude/* branch entry is gone. The canonical disclosure prefix is the current one, and both legacy prefixes stay recognised.
  • Consistency: the skill line points back to the same section and no longer states the retired "never merge external PRs" rule, so the two files cannot disagree.
  • Security: instruction text only. It narrows nothing and widens no execution rights: never running an outside contributor's branch locally stays explicit.
  • Out of scope, already tracked: the earlier AGENTS.md sentence claiming a ruleset injects run-dotnet-tests is stale, but this PR does not touch it. It is tracked as #424.

Verdict: no P0/P1 findings

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Ready at 6c91030a. I took this PR over after its session went idle (last activity 12:34Z). Its only blocker, #422, was fixed by #423, so I brought the branch up to date with main. CodeRabbit then found one stale maintainer name in the README, fixed in 6c91030a with its thread resolved.

  • Tested: all 13 checks pass at this head, including Validate Scaffold, which failed on every PR from 2026-08-31 until fix(tests): opt the scaffold into Microsoft.Testing.Platform #423 merged. The only review thread is resolved.
  • Reviewed: no review bot could serve this head. CodeRabbit declined with "Review rate limited" at 16:49Z, after its 16:43Z review of the previous head, whose one finding is fixed here. Codex and Cursor Bugbot both hit usage limits (16:51Z and 16:54Z). So I posted a local review round at this exact head (review 5213241223) with no P0 or P1 findings.
  • Tried as a user: this change has no runtime surface. It edits two instruction files that agents read: the ## Maintenance section of AGENTS.md and the maintain skill. It changes no code, workflow or template output beyond those two texts. I traced both to what reads them. They are the maintenance instructions an agent loads in this repository and in every repository generated from the template. Both now state the current rules: self-promotion on readiness, every PR driven to a terminal state, and an outside contributor's branch never run locally. The trusted-author list matches the shared contract exactly, and the legacy disclosure prefixes stay recognised.

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