skills/.changeset/wayfinder-assign-to-claim.md
Matt Pocock 6f9e9956fd wayfinder: claim by assigning the ticket, not a label
A session now claims a ticket by assigning it to the dev driving the
map, rather than setting a `wayfinder:claimed` label. The assignee is
the claim; an open, unassigned ticket is unclaimed. Reads more naturally
in the tracker's own UI and frees the label vocabulary to
`wayfinder:<type>` alone.

Updates the GitHub and GitLab tracker-operations docs to the assignee
mechanism (`--add-assignee @me` / `--assignee @me`). The local-markdown
tracker keeps its `Status: claimed` line — a file store has no assignee.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-03 11:34:42 +01:00

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Change wayfinder's claim mechanism from a label to an assignee.

A session now claims a ticket by assigning it to the dev driving the map, rather than setting a wayfinder:claimed label. The assignee is the claim — an open, unassigned ticket is unclaimed — which reads more naturally in GitHub's own UI and frees the label vocabulary to wayfinder:<type> alone. The claim leading word and its "first, before any work" rationale are unchanged; only the physical expression moved.