work-items: add backlog-conformance sweep — deterministic detection, propose-only agent, on-demand loop

[kyle-sexton]

Locked in 2026-07-17 triage interview. work-items:triage scopes to raw intake only; team-authored items are assumed born-labeled, but #260–#287 carry zero labels — the backlog has no conformance mechanism.

Design (locked): new work-items capability, sibling to triage. Deterministic detection first (no:type search, missing priority/status axes, unwired blocked-by edges — pure tracker-API queries); agent reasoning only for classification; PROPOSE-ONLY authority first (staged trust — promote to write/schedule later); run via on-demand /loop. Conventions arrive by pointer: the standards issue-tracker playbook + the deployed IaC label set + the plugin's own label-taxonomy remap. Never creates labels (github-iac is the sole label writer).

Related

• standards issue-tracker playbook prescribes periodic no:type sweeps — this gives that a home

[kyle-sexton]

This was generated by AI during triage (historic normalization, rule 8g).

blocked by #308 decision — #308's own body already names this issue as "the backlog sweep issue," the reactive half of the same labeling-at-birth gap #308 tracks as the creation-time (proactive) half. Cluster-routed as a member of #308 rather than triaged separately.

[kyle-sexton]

Frontier disposition (drain session)

Ruling: Close as not planned.

Backlog-conformance sweep is cluster-routed advisory intake, not a standalone drain-cycle deliverable.