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Review: ticket-orchestrator-routing
1. Result: approve
Approve. I found no blockers.
2. Summary
The new ticket-orchestrator-routing workflow satisfies the ticket scope as a workflow/resource change. It defines Orchestrator-owned routing responsibilities, keeps routing authority tied to Ticket records plus explicitly inspected repository/Pod state, and avoids introducing scheduler, lease, queue, dashboard, automatic spawning, or arbitrary filesystem-write behavior.
The implementation fits the current multi-agent direction: routing produces a recorded decision and, for implementation-ready Tickets, an IntentPacket that is handed to multi-agent-workflow rather than directly spawning coder Pods.
3. Requirement assessment
- Ticket terminology: Pass. The new workflow and docs use
Ticketterminology and do not reviveWorkItem/ old-system wording. - Orchestrator responsibilities: Pass. The workflow requires reading the Ticket body/thread/artifacts/status, inspecting relevant repository state and visible Pod state, classifying the next action, recording a routing decision through
TicketComment, and creating anIntentPacketonly for implementation-ready Tickets. - Non-goals: Pass. The workflow explicitly excludes unattended scheduling, automatic Pod spawning, lease/queue persistence, TUI dashboard/action dashboard behavior, TicketUpdate mutation, external tracker integration, and arbitrary filesystem writes.
- Routing classifications: Pass. The workflow covers
requirements_sync_needed,preflight_needed,spike_needed,implementation_ready,review_needed,blocked_action_required,close_ready,defer_pending, andclosed_or_noop. - Conditions and actions: Pass. Each classification has usable conditions and required next actions, including when to route back to intake/preflight, when to request spike work, when to review, when to block for human action, and when close/no-op is appropriate.
- Preflight gate: Pass. Preflight-needed Tickets are explicitly prohibited from going directly to coder Pods.
- Implementation-ready handoff: Pass. The implementation-ready path requires an
IntentPacketand explicitly connects tomulti-agent-workflow/ worktree-based implementation. - Decision recording: Pass. The
TicketCommentdecision format is concrete and includes classification, evidence, inspected state, next workflow, blocking questions, and optionalIntentPacketcontent. - Authority model: Pass. The workflow bases routing on Ticket fields/events/artifacts plus explicitly inspected repository/Pod state, and rejects hidden conversation state as routing authority.
- Docs update: Pass.
docs/development/workflows.mdis small and accurately describes where the routing workflow fits among intake, preflight, worktree, multi-agent, and close/review flows. - Code scope: Pass. No source-code change is needed for this ticket scope.
4. Blockers
None.
5. Non-blockers / follow-ups
None required for this ticket.
A future follow-up may be useful after the workflow is exercised: if repeated routing decisions stabilize, extract a pure classifier/test fixture. That is explicitly outside this ticket and should not block approval.
6. Validation assessed
- Read and assessed the Ticket record at
work-items/open/20260605-040104-ticket-orchestrator-routing/item.md. - Read and assessed the new workflow at
.yoi/workflow/ticket-orchestrator-routing.md. - Read and assessed the docs update at
docs/development/workflows.md. - Cross-checked related workflow boundaries against:
.yoi/workflow/ticket-intake-workflow.md.yoi/workflow/ticket-preflight-workflow.md.yoi/workflow/multi-agent-workflow.md
- Checked repository status/diff shape sufficiently to confirm this review concerns workflow/docs/ticket material and does not require code validation.
- Did not run
nix build .#yoibecause this is a docs/workflow-only review with no code, packaging, runtime-resource, or prompt changes requiring a package build.
7. Residual risk
The main residual risk is operational, not a blocker: the workflow depends on Orchestrator discipline to record decisions and inspect state explicitly until any future classifier/tooling support exists. The written workflow is clear enough for that current manual/orchestrated use.